Tae Kim is free so nothing about it can hurt you. Genki is probably the go to textbook for teaching Japanese in the USA, but it is a school textbook; so not designed with “self-learners” in mind.

Currently I have gotten way too distracted learning Kanji…415 Kanji, 1143 Vocab, and almost 0 grammar to actually apply them >_<

For Jisho just type in an English word like ‘Baseball’

On the left you see the Kanji (野球) (Meaning Field and Ball…I’m just proud of myself for knowing both of those)
with furigana. Kanji on the bottom (Chinese characters) then the Hiragana reading on top (やきゅう). Assume you are the part about making a passion list…so I would ignore the Kanji and just write down the Hiragana for now.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by  Christopher.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by  Christopher.

Tae Kim or Genki, if you are actually serious about studying by the time EtoEto comes out you will be way past it.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by  Christopher.

With Koichi I defiantly hear the D at times. If you want to blow a bunch of time on YouTube its seems the range with natives is pretty vast. Defiantly heavily R/L mix but on sometimes that D creeps in on some words.

I basically put my tongue right in front of the L position and then try to make an R sound. Comes out some kind of L/R mix. I can’t get a D sound unless I just say dingo…which is exactly how it sounds to me when Koichi says that word. Others he leans more L/R.

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