I tend to use it together with Japanese for busy people and other books as they all use different Vocab and give a more rounded learning experience. Richtig schreiben, weil es ja immer eine Schreibrichtung gibt und weil unsere Dozentin mal gerne Zusatzpunkte in Test gibt, mussten wir manchmal das 3.

This book greatly helped me get through the first textbook without a tutor while still getting through the material with no issues whatsoever, highly recommended to anyone learning Japanese without a tutor. Make sure you have a CD player or you find the soundcloud link for the audio tasks, as they really help with the listening abilities. There are up to 8 different workbooks for Minna no Nihongo and an additional textbook focusing on Kanji characters only. If you study in a language school in Japan, you will very likely be using this series, and for good reason.Which while that gets some complaints in this thread allows the schools to have mixed language students in the same class. What I didn’t know when I picked up minna no nihongo was that the main textbook is completely in Japanese.

It is difficult to understand a foreign language when listening to it, especially at the early stages.

A third volume in the series for the Chukyu (Intermediate) level goes by the name An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese without bearing the name Genki. And while they can be expensive, they’re worth the investment if you’re dedicated to learning Japanese.