About 3+ years ago, I was studying Japanese pretty consistently using the Genki textbook, supplementing that with Kodansha kanji study, HelloTalk, and Anki flash cards. Over the course of a few months, I reached the end of the first Genki book, before I dropped language learning for a variety of external reasons.
Now I’d like to get back to learning JP. After so long, i know I’ll essentially have to go back to square one. I’m inclined to just do the same process as before, but I’ve been out of the game for long enough that I’m sure I’ve missed some new tools or processes that could be helpful. Any recommendations, whether for primary language learning or something supplemental?
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Tokini Andy on YouTube is great for Anki explanations.
Matt vs Japan and Livakivi. Ajatt.
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Anki basically of course
[JP Tools Lazy Guide](https://xelieu.github.io/jp-lazy-guide/)
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Review Genki 1 then start Genki 2. That should expose you to 1,700 of the most common vocabulary words and 600 kanji. From there you should reinforce your knowledge with core 1k and 2k sentence decks. You don’t have to go through all the elementary exercises in Genki, just try to study all the vocabulary by reading the example sentences. Also, I would review each chapter by watching Tokini Andy’s lessons on YouTube.
After you finish Genki, if you enjoy learning from a textbook, I’d recommend moving onto Quartet 1 & 2, if not, just listen to a metric ton of podcasts and watch whatever source of Japanese media. Be comfortable with not understanding content. It’ll all make sense eventually with enough patience.
Drill Kanji with Hop Hop, it’s on itch.io
https://ew-big-fish.itch.io
[Jpdb.io](https://jpdb.io/) is the best site to learn vocabulary imo.
You can even create a deck from an entire book.
For kanjis, I like the app kanji study with outlier.
Also, you should check out tae kim guide for grammar.
Also, this grammar index is really really useful : [Grammar index of Japanese grammar](https://core6000.neocities.org/dojg/)
There are also programs like [Cloe](https://github.com/blueaxis/Cloe) or [Kanjitomo](https://www.kanjitomo.net/) to extract kanjis from mangas or images.
This [guide](https://learnjapanese.moe/guide/) is great too.
[Yomichan](https://github.com/FooSoft/yomichan) is a must-have.
I just joined an accountability study group on this app called Meerchat where we post daily about our studies and keep a streak. Super useful to keep consistent! Hope you manage to get back into it!
For learning kanji, I cannot recommend https://www.ringotan.com/ enough. It’s a free mobile app without ads, and it is absolutely the best way of learning kanji that I have tried so far.
It teaches you not only to recognise them, but also to draw them – and in my experience, this actually makes the process faster. You get six Japanese words for each kanji, and can choose one of them to be read aloud when the kanji pops up – along with some English keywords like you might be used to from RRTK. By engaging both reading, listening and writing, it has managed to teach me kanji much better and faster than RRTK ever did. And I don’t burn out as much, either, since it’s an app and I can do it in small doses across the day.
I dunno I bought WK and Bunpro at the start of the year, got to around level 10 and completed N4, completely gassed out.
I don’t find them entertaining at all anymore. I’d recommend utilizing many resources and keep swapping them. The Quartet book set is fairly new so it’s worth a check. I’ve read the first reading and haven’t opened it really so I can’t say much about it.
Tokini Andy and Udemy offer some good online video content
Took me ages to find but yuyu の日本語podcast is good for listening practice. Today I learned is also good
What do you guys think of Quartet? I believe it’s the next stage after the Genki books.
I’d recommend “Human Japanese” and “Satori Reader.” In “Human Japanese”, you can learn basic yet practical Japanese. And once you become an intermidiate learner, I’d recommend Satori Reader.
https://www.humanjapanese.com/
OP, I’ve been learning Japanese on and off for 2 years but only started taking it seriously recently. Out of all the recourses I’ve tried, I really think “Human Japanese” is the best. Seriously underrated app, I never see people mention it. Give the free, lite version a go and if you like it, buy the full version. Best of luck!
I like Satori Reader for reading practice. They have their stories fully voiced too so you can get listening practice. And grammar explanations.
If you’re willing to spend a little money, I would look into the Kanji Study app on Android (I think it also has an Apple version? Not sure.). I have been using it to study kanji for a year now and am making good progress on the jouyou kanji.
You can try Genki study resourses website for reviewing gebki. It has a lot of quizes/, practices of the whole book 1 and 2, both 2nd and 3rd edition. And Tokini Andi on youtube. When I don’t want to go through the book I play his videos!!
[genki study resourses](https://sethclydesdale.github.io/genki-study-resources/lessons-3rd/) in page links you can change to 2nd ed.