I'm reading Tae Kim and I think i'll finish in about a week. After that i'll reread rapidly all of it because there are some parts that don't stick well and at the same time i'll use the tae kim anki deck. After that i wanted to buy a textbook. I looked at genki but i'm not that sure. I tought about Nakama 1&2 (2010 edition) since it looked like a good textbook but some people say that its overpriced and not good at all. how long do you think it will take for start reading manga and light novel? i already have some raws with and whitout furigana and i can't wait to read them.

Hope you can help me. Thanks.

Ok reading the books raw is VERY hard. The lower amount of vocabulary you have, the more chance you will be staying on each page for a very long time. I think if your finishing up Tae Kim and your doing pretty well with it, just forget about the beginner textbooks, just make sure to put Tae kim into anki so you won't forget. After that I guess just read and find new grammar points you find in books.

It's true that i'm doing well with it but there are things that i don't understand the way tae kim explain it and there aren't enough examples so I tought about a textbook for some help.
About the vocabulary i'm thinking about core 2k\6k. By the way, are the phrases used in core 2k also used in the 6k or it's a complete different thing?

[Zgarbas]

Rather than go through a beginner textbook (again), have a look at the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar & its sequels later on (and the assorted anki decks as a supplement).

Core6k includes core2k+another 4k.

neko_san Wrote:It's true that i'm doing well with it but there are things that i don't understand the way tae kim explain it and there aren't enough examples so I tought about a textbook for some help.

Have you seen any of the on line lessons available here:

http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/vjg/vjghomepage/vjghome.htm

It might provide (I'd say it most definitely would) some useful grammatical insight which was untouched, or sparsely touched upon in Tae Kim's Grammar Guide.

Zgarbas Wrote:Rather than go through a beginner textbook (again), have a look at the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar & its sequels later on (and the assorted anki decks as a supplement).

I second this. I was doing Genki I but it is so dry and very tedious to try and study; to put it bluntly textbook learning sucks. As of right now I'm doing tae kim's guide and srsing the vocab. Once I'm done I'm going to do core 10k and buy the DoBJG series.

I do not recommend Genki. It might not be a bad idea to check out the core decks, personally I can't wait to start going through it.