Ryssen Posts

Hey, sorry it's taken me 9 months to get back to you. I completely forgot to reply. How are your studies going? Did you finish the kanji book and are onto new kanji now?

Genki is a good series but it's expensive and imo not worth it. I'd highly recommend looking into Minna no Nihongo instead to pick up grammar and vocab. You should then move onto Kanzen Master (these are JLPT prep books but are incredibly detailed and give lots of examples) when you get to an intermediate level. New Approach Japanese Pre-Advanced Course is great to move onto after that, it comes with CDs as well. We used all of these books during my Japanese BA at university and they really are amazing.

These are all mainly for grammar and vocab. Visual novel wise, I haven't actually read any for a very long time so I'm not sure of any recommendations on that front.

The best materials though (when you feel comfortable enough) for reading and listening are those written for Japanese people. If you're interested in world news then NHK is indispensable. That page is updated every day with news from every continent. What's great about it is that each audio news clip also has the transcript (click the + next to each piece) so you can listen/read/shadow as much as you want. And you can download the audio too.

You should also try tackling articles on stuff you're interested in. I really like reading Animate Times for weeb shit and Natalie for music-related stuff. Print out articles, highlight words you don't know and pick apart the sentences. Flashcards, Anki, whatever works for you.

It's possibly for the 2020 olympics.

this thread is bad.

It's now a Birthday thread for me, fuck you Ryssen.

Is there going to be an iPhone version of this app?