Physical Media

Textbooks

TL;DR: We recommend Genki

GENKI

The most commonly recommended textbook series in /r/LearnJapanese, published by Japan Times. Genki is a comprehensive textbook series designed for beginners; no previous knowledge is required to use Genki (although it won't hurt). Genki is also known for being very affordable compared to other textbooks. The companion workbook is recommended but not required.

Description from Amazon: Second edition of the most highly regarded teaching text book on the Japanese language, covering speaking, listening, reading, and writing to cultivate overall language ability. Each lesson in the revised edition features a new section dubbed Culture Notes," and now includes the audio CD companion which is in mp3 format ready to install on any music player. In Japanese/English. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Genki-Online | Amazon.com Purchase Link

**Naka

Before the subreddit went private I was able to make a backup of the wiki. As far as I'm aware Lemmy does not currently have a community wiki functionality, so I will be posting the pages from the old wiki here as individual posts.

This might not be the ideal way to do this, but I like that people will be able to comment on resource pages directly. People could ask questions or make suggestions without having to make individual posts.