The generally recommended textbooks are Tobira, An Integrated Approach to Japanese, or Quartet.
The common suggestions would be An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese (AIATJ), Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese or the Quartet series (two books).
I worked through all of them and would recommend Quartet. It’s a smaller jump from Genki (assuming you have been doing the reading exercises in the 2nd half of the book) but Genki 2 goes a little further than Tobira. It’s also more modern and has great listening exercises.
Tobira is fine, too. It offers less readings than Quartet and is a bit more dated/less user-friendly, but content-wise it’s more or less the same. The audio recordings are terrible though hahaha it feels like they were recorded by students on a 00s phone.
AIATJ is the worst of the three, and given the release of Quartet, I suspect it’s being discontinued. It focuses more on situations an exchange student would go through, and pretty much all dialogues are about those, but the readings are good, especially towards the end. It also teaches much less grammar than the other two and there’s fewer listening exercises.
I recently made a post about [my journey learning japanese and finishing Wanikani](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/18pi19t/recently_finished_wanikani_18_months_of_japanese/), and a month later, I’m…
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The generally recommended textbooks are Tobira, An Integrated Approach to Japanese, or Quartet.
The common suggestions would be An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese (AIATJ), Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese or the Quartet series (two books).
I worked through all of them and would recommend Quartet. It’s a smaller jump from Genki (assuming you have been doing the reading exercises in the 2nd half of the book) but Genki 2 goes a little further than Tobira. It’s also more modern and has great listening exercises.
Tobira is fine, too. It offers less readings than Quartet and is a bit more dated/less user-friendly, but content-wise it’s more or less the same. The audio recordings are terrible though hahaha it feels like they were recorded by students on a 00s phone.
AIATJ is the worst of the three, and given the release of Quartet, I suspect it’s being discontinued. It focuses more on situations an exchange student would go through, and pretty much all dialogues are about those, but the readings are good, especially towards the end. It also teaches much less grammar than the other two and there’s fewer listening exercises.
[Here is my review of Quartet.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/oqjjzs/quartet_textbook_series_review/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)