Can you recomend some dynamic ways to learn japanese?

Question:

Something I can access online, or buy from a site like amazon.
(If you have some really good books you want to recomend, you can but I am not looking for language boods).
Any magazines/media I can learn from.
Lower level books?
Simple animes?
Links on where to find the stuff would be helpful.

Answer:

A website is not always the best way to learn a language, especially a language like Japanese. They are not a good, reliable source to learn a language. The authors of a lot of online courses have no teaching credentials and are not native speakers of the language. If you really want to learn, then take a class or invest in a good textbook.

The best way to learn Japanese is through a variety of methods. You need to work on your grammar, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Its best to think of these as separate categories and focus on each specific category as these require different methods and techniques.

Start by learning the basics through grammar. These books really helped me:

• Shin Nihongo no Kiso I & II (great if you want to take the JLPT one day)

• Shin Nihongo no Kiso Japanese Kanji Workbook

• A Course in Modern Japanese by The University of Nagoya Press

• An Introduction to Modern Japanese by Osamu Mizutani & Nobuko Mizutani

These books cover both polite Japanese, which is extremely important to learn in order to speak Japanese effectively and causal Japanese, which is great for everyday conversations. They are written by native Japanese speakers and are the real deal unlike most websites that claim to be.

How to Learn Japanese http://japan-australia.blogspot.com/2010…