Having lived in Japan for two years now, it is about time I took learning Japanese seriously. I have taken a few small community classes, practiced with my co-workers, and purchased several textbooks and JLPT prep books.
I’m a visual learning and prefer to learn how to read over speaking (however this is a shortcoming for sure). I have mostly been studying Japanese grammar and vocabulary, and while this has led to me improving my written Japanese skills considerably, I am still in need of practice when speaking.
However, I decided to post a few resources I have been using to learn Japanese while I live here.
Video Resources
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Japanese Ammo with Misa - an excellent YouTube channel devoted to thorough explanations of Japanese grammar.
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Kitani method of Japanese - another great explanation of basic Japanese grammar in one video.
Book Resources (Amazon links but I don’t receive any compensation from this)
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Japanese from Zero - All levels are great for beginners, not so much for advanced learners.
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Easy and Fun Kanji - A good and straightforward kanji learning workbook.
These are just recommendations. I will update this post with any new material I get in the future. Good luck with your own studies.