I want to learn Japanese but don’t have a lot of money to spend on books, though I did do some research and some people recommended Remembering the Kana: The Hiragana / The Katakana by Heisig and the Genki books but they seem expensive so I’m not sure if they are worth the cost. So what books or series of books in a specific order would you recommend that would be most effective? Thanks.
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I strongly recommend you on Rocket Japanese, you can read
more info here:
http://learn-japanese-easy.info/japanese/
You don’t really need to pay when you are thinking to learn the basics… there’re lots of free materials out there, plus with a book you don’t listen to audio but with internet you have that.
try this one for learning hiragana/katakana:
http://www.sayjack.com/learn/japanese/hiragana
http://www.sayjack.com/learn/japanese/katakana
If you really want a book I would say you borrow it from the library…
“Genki” or “Nakama” is the most popular introductory Japanese textbooks for college students.
You can use this language learning product:Listen & Learn Japanese. It is easy to follow and helpful with the pronounciation of the Japanese language.You can learn so much for so little money… $1.69 http://www.keeplookingbusy.com/itemDetails.aspx?id=0486252779
just try to learn Japanese online, for example:
here is a good site:
http://japaneseclass.jp/
this site allows you to:
- Practice, improve and enrich your vocabulary and kanji
- Motivate yourself from the EXP you earned and get ranked among others
- Organize your learning – don’t get stuck, learn Japanese level by level. know where to begin and where to continue.
- Weak List feature will intelligently record vocabulary/kanji that is difficult for you. the weak list allows the program of this site to set a bias for the vocabulary or kanji that is difficult for you, where more questions from your weak list will be given in the practice page.
- this site allows you to tag an object in user’s photo with a vocabulary. the tagged object will be automatically cropped from the photo and given as a question in Photo Quiz.
Get the ISBN and you can find them for cheaper on Google.
When I took Japanese in college, my professors had us use “Japanese For Busy People” books (kana editions, not romaji).
Look into that. My books I bought for under $10.