>> GET THE SECOND PART: N3-N1 Books
HERE: https://nyaa.si/view/1269195
***
what's in PART 1 (v2):
- New books in Kanji section and Grammar, Vocabulary
- newer/better quality versions of some books
- better organization of the materials
- recommended learning order
**
01 HIRAGANA AND KATAKANA PRACTICE:
- pronunciation and stroke order charts
- Guide to Learning Hiragana and Katakana - First Steps to Reading and Writing Japanese (1st Edition)
- Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana - Workbook and Practice Sheets (1st Edition)
- Practice Hiragana, Katakana Online
**
02 KANJI LEARNING:
- Japanese Kanji & Kana - A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System (3rd Edition) [Digital]
- The World of Kanji - Learn 2136 Japanese Characters through Real Etymologies (1st Edition) [Digital]
Kodansha Kanji Learner's (KKLC) Series
- The Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Course A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering 2300 Characters (1st Edition)
- The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary Revised and Expanded by Shigeko Miyazaki [Digital]
- The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary by Jack Halpern (1st Edition)
Kanji Look and Learn (Genki Plus)
- KANJI LOOK AND LEARN 512 Kanji with Illustrations and Mnemonic Hints (1st Edition) (Genki Plus)
- KANJI LOOK AND LEARN - Workbook (1st Edition) (Genki Plus)
- KANJI LOOK AND LEARN - Answer Key (Genki Plus)
Remembering the Kanji (RTK) Series
- Remembering the Kanji 1 (6th Edition) [Digital]
- Remembering the Kanji 2 (3rd Edition) [Digital]
- Remembering the Kanji 3 (2nd Edition) [Digital]
**
03 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY:
Genki Series
- GENKI textbook, Workbook I (2nd Edition)
- GENKI textbook, Workbook II (2nd Edition)
- GENKI - An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese I, II- Answer Key (2nd Edition)
- GENKI CD textbook, workbook - I, II
Minna no Nihongo Shokyu Series
- Minna no Nihongo Shokyu I Dai 2-Han Honsatsu Kanji-Kana
- Minna no Nihongo Shokyu I Dai 2-Han Hyojun Mondaishu
- Minna no Nihongo Shokyu I Dai 2-Han Kaite Oboeru Bunkei Renshucho
- Minna no Nihongo Shokyu I Dai 2-Han Shokyu I Kanji
- Minna no Nihongo Shokyu II Dai 2-Han Honsatsu Kanji Kana
- Minna no Nihongo Shokyu II Dai 2-Han Hyojun Mondaishu
- Minna no Nihongo Shokyu DVD I, II (without track 027)
- A Guide to Japanese Grammar - A Japanese Approach to Learning Japanese Grammar (1st Edition) [Digital]
- Essential Japanese Grammar - A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Usage (1st Edition) [Digital]
- Japanese Core Words and Phrases - Things You Cant Find in a Dictionary (1st Edition) [OCR]
**
04 REFERENCE (GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY):
- Japanese English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries 1st Edition) [Digital]
- (in folder "02 Kanji") - The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary Revised and Expanded by Shigeko Miyazaki [Digital]
- All About Particles - A Handbook of Japanese Function Words (1st Edition)
- 600 Basic Japanese Verbs - The Essential Reference Guide (Bilingual Edition) [Digital]
Handbook of Japanese Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs Series
- The Handbook of Japanese Verbs (1st Edition) [OCR]
- The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs (1st Edition) [OCR]
A Dictionary of Basic-Advanced Japanese Grammar Series
- A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (1st Edition)
- A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese (1st Edition)
- A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar (1st Edition) [2-page]
**
05 CHILDREN STORIES:
- Japanese Children Stories (in Hiragana)
- Japanese Stories for Language Learners - Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English [Digital]
**
06 OTHER:
- Japanese from Zero 1 - Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (5th Edition) [OCR]
- Japanese From Zero 2 - Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (3rd Edition) [OCR]
- Japanese from Zero 3 - Proven Methods to Learn Japanese with Integrated Workbook [Digital]
- Japanese Vocabulary (Quick Study Academic pamphlet) (2005) [Digital]
- Essential Japanese Vocabulary - Learn to Avoid Common (and Embarrassing) Mistakes (1st Edition) [Digital]
**
USEFUL Info + Links:
- Recommended Learning Order Guide
- Online Dictionaries and Apps
- Online Japanese Learning
- Read Japanese Folktales Online
***
I Included some of the most recommended and good learning resources, both physical and online.
You can choose what you like the most and learn from them.
***
Good Luck in your journey!
hong_hua
I would like to know if hong_hua knows the Japanese language...
...because it would be very funny to recommend something that you have no knowledge of.
@ ScreenRant
Hey, the books that are in this collection are among the most recommended both on forums, and selling sites like amazon/ goodreads. I chose books that I personally like (which I recommend in my guide) and also books that I'm not interested in, but other people with different approach can find them useful.
My recommendations in the guide are based on my experience studying Japanese. I'm no teacher of Japanese, but I have good learning skills which allowed me to effectively compare different approaches of studying, and quickly determine what's working for me and gives me steady improvement week by week.
When starting to learn a new thing, there are so many different recommendations and sources to learn, that it is hard to actually start.
I wrote the guide in an attempt to help people who want a clear understanding of what is needed at the initial stages of learning, and what to expect in the future.
Again, I'm not forcing my ideas and conclusions on anyone, just sharing the approach that works for me.
If you are here for the books, I think that this collection will satisfy your needs. But, if you want to test me, sorry I'm not participating.
Thank you and happy learning! :)
Just a question: How many years did it take you to learn Japanese and others you studied with?
I'd love to learn, but I reckon it'd take a few years at the very least?
Japanese is a very difficult language, but nothing is impossible. One day I just wanted to learn Japanese, so I took a simple list of kana and begun remembering them one by one, if I made a single mistake, I started the list from the beginning and I continued that until I remembered them all. That was the first step for me, I still remember it. I learn the best by hearing so watching anime has been tremendously helpful, some say you shouldn't watch anime while learning Japanese but it's all about one's way of learning in fact. If you are audible, watch lots of anime, if written stuff is your thing, read a whole lot and so on.. I procrastinated (read: was afraid of) wih kanji many years, but somehow I just begun understanding after seeing them thousands of times. I've studied Japanese a while ("professionally"), but I had to drop out for personal reasons, but I didn't let that kill my enthusiasm. The main thing is the willpower, for me it was to able to play games that never got translated. There are of course still thousands of kanji I don't know, but luckily there is jisho dot org - seriously all other online dictionaries are crap compared to it - if I don't know kanji, that is the best place to check out. Kanji is hard, but even harder are different readings. Even if you know the meaning, it means a squat if you can't read them properly. Like, seriously, when you learn Japanese STUDY THE FREAKING READINGS. The kanji used in names are the most difficult, because even if you can read it "normally" in names the same kanji can be read way differently. And yes, It takes years to learn Japanese properly, but the main thing is to keep using that language whenever you can (for instance I knew French once but after I stopped using it, I forgot most of it...). Anyways, learning a language is never time wasted, just don't give up whatever happens and one day you are fluent... if that happened to me, it can happen to you as well. Ganbare!
Amazing work :)
Unfortunately, I took a long break in Japanese (2017) since I finished my last class in College(You can't take any more JPN classes once you finish the advance one).
I really miss it since it made me so lazy and not study for 3 years now and so.
I definitely need the motivation to pick it back up and go ham once more!
Thanks for all of this! I still have all of notes, resources and everything from my college classes. So if I really really want to go back. I can actually do so.
I just need to just do it!!!
Thanks for this amazing collection!!!
I mean this collection goes only to N4 level, so I would say it's not quite complete. And trust me, your understanding with N4 is limited.
I was always looking for N3, N2, N1 content, because it's hard to find.
some others I would recommend adding to this pack would be the kana & kanji books from "Manga University", that I know of they now have eBook versions of them
https://www.howtodrawmanga.com/#booksandebooks
others I would recommend, would be the language series by Kodansha (if there are ebook versions), the Japanese For Young People, and the Japanese For Busy People series (and the other supplemental books like the workbooks for hiragana and katakana)
https://www.kodanshausa.com/
and the Japanese in Mangaland series (if there are ebooks versions), sadly I don't think they ever did ebooks of this series
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/JMS/japanese-in-mangaland-series
Get Nihonshock's cheatsheets, they are super handy. Here, if anyone wants a scanned copy - https://www.mediafire.com/file/dckt6ix32l93f35/fora.pdf/file (Got that link from https://gist.github.com/zeroDivisible/5936526).
Afaik it's missing a few sheets.
This is slightly improved from the previous one but still, the maximum it goes is till N4. You need to study better books for N3 and above so will be glad if you could add those in the next update since it's very difficult to find it online.
I wanted to buy some books but importing them is very expensive ~$100/book.
@noxdraz
Hey, please give exapmles of books.
I have some more advanced books but as you said yourself they are hard to find, so I need some time to gather enough to release a smaller v2.1 update.
Also, the higher level books are in Japanese, so probably most of the update will be in Japanese. Thanks for your patience
@hong_hua Thanks for adding those, and it's totally fine if they are Japanese because if one is at level N4, he can read and understand Japanese for the most part.
I have been doing RTK 1 and just finished Part II.
Here are some of the mistakes and typos I found in the first two parts of RTK 1 Ebook (6th ed.) 〜
57: Stroke Order
99: Keyword (All > Child)
106: Stroke Order
129: Both Kanji and Stroke Order - Replace the radical for large with dog. 大 > 犬
509: Story
510: Story
511: Story
544: Ignore 七
I’ll give an update on Part III after I complete it.
Oops! I completely forgot about the update.
These are the typos and mistakes I found in RTK 1 Part III (Ebook 6th edition) 〜
673: primitive word - increase > formerly
680: Kanji (The two vertical lines of 目 connects to the horizontal line below it = 惧)
Primitive character next to frame 785
Primitive character next to frame 793
Primitive character next to frame 819
Primitive character next to frame 856
Primitive character above frame 859
1456: Keyword (Crimson > Settlement)
1492: Stroke Order
1522: Kanji (五 > 腕)
1629: Keyword (income > lowly)
Primitive character next to frame 1644
1800: Ignore {Awl ...saber}.
2004: Primitive words (Metal ... grade)
Definition of ‘lock of hair’ primitive next to frame 2064
Sorry if I missed some.
Comments - 23
RoxReaper
Ahmad_o
ScreenRant
hong_hua (uploader)
Impakt
kingofhearts
Interruptor
Sethbacca
SomaHeir
omn1m0n
dead_ferret
KOWBOY
544chan
hong_hua (uploader)
noxdraz
hong_hua (uploader)
hong_hua (uploader)
noxdraz
Deathon8
KOWBOY
sylvioribeiro
KOWBOY
BakaTheThird