I am planning to take jlpt n4 in July 2016 but I need a clear study plan as well as good resources. For grammar I was thinking about tae kim or genki and for the kanji the basic kanji book. Also I would like to study the sentence patterns with the kanji and not separated. If anyone can suggest something please do.  

Thank you.

Good luck! While I don't think I'd be ready to take the JLPT exam this year I do want to reach at least an N3 before I make my trip.

I take it you haven't taken a course or self studied yourself? Id recommend checking out previous N4 exams and using stuff like anki to study kanji and what not. Currently I'm starting the Japanese Core 2k on anki and trying to interweave that with reading light literature and listening to podcasts.

I passed N4 in December 2014.

I recommend the Japanese Online Institute (JOI). They have N4-specific lessons and are very reasonably priced.

(2016-01-05, 5:13 pm)ariariari Wrote: I passed N4 in December 2014.

I recommend the Japanese Online Institute (JOI). They have N4-specific lessons and are very reasonably priced.

Appreciate the resource! I was just about to start looking around for N4 specific resources lol.

I have never taken N4 but I found a site that gives you a list of JLPT books.

http://www.aatj.org/jlpt-resources

Refer to the "Study Materials List" to see what kind of books are available for the N4 level and go from there.

(2016-01-05, 8:14 pm)jjmochii Wrote:

(2016-01-05, 5:13 pm)ariariari Wrote: I passed N4 in December 2014.

I recommend the Japanese Online Institute (JOI). They have N4-specific lessons and are very reasonably priced.

Appreciate the resource! I was just about to start looking around for N4 specific resources lol.

Glad to help. I do a lot of self-study, but I have always found good teachers to be invaluable. Note that before the JLPT JOI actually runs mini-bootcamps which I also recommend.

There are not many N4 or N5 specific books. I think that the JLPT prep industry is mostly focused towards N2 and N1 since there is a financial incentive to pass those levels. But I do like this book. I am actually working thru it as a review now.

(2016-01-06, 8:32 pm)ariariari Wrote:

(2016-01-05, 8:14 pm)jjmochii Wrote:

(2016-01-05, 5:13 pm)ariariari Wrote: I passed N4 in December 2014.

I recommend the Japanese Online Institute (JOI). They have N4-specific lessons and are very reasonably priced.

Appreciate the resource! I was just about to start looking around for N4 specific resources lol.

Glad to help. I do a lot of self-study, but I have always found good teachers to be invaluable. Note that before the JLPT JOI actually runs mini-bootcamps which I also recommend.

There are not many N4 or N5 specific books. I think that the JLPT prep industry is mostly focused towards N2 and N1 since there is a financial incentive to pass those levels. But I do like this book. I am actually working thru it as a review now.

I do a lot of self studying my self as well! Been wanting to take a university course but I don't have the time with major plus I just finished all of my lower division so I'm out of luck to begin with either way. 

Would you say JOI is worth it? I'm mean currently my japanese is horrible I can read kana and I know a handful of kanji. I mean I could easily make it though Japan with my current level of japanese (I think at least lol)

(2016-01-06, 10:33 pm)jjmochii Wrote: I do a lot of self studying my self as well! Been wanting to take a university course but I don't have the time with major plus I just finished all of my lower division so I'm out of luck to begin with either way. 

Would you say JOI is worth it? I'm mean currently my japanese is horrible I can read kana and I know a handful of kanji. I mean I could easily make it though Japan with my current level of japanese (I think at least lol)

I highly recommend JOI. You will have cheap, semi-private lessons, 100% in Japanese, with an expert native teacher. IMHO it doesn't get any better than that.