![]() ![]() I feel like everyone I know who used Genki came away with misunderstandings about things like は and が and the volitional (for both general verbs and でしょう/だろう) after they might have been easily clarified. English all being fairly opaque to me until late college, if not last year, and some of those issues I maintained glancing through other peoples’ Genki books recently. I remember things like 1) the true implications of the volitional form (I would say I genuinely had to relearn this at some point in intermediate study), 2) topic-subject constructions and 3) the idea of when to use passive voice in Japanese vs. I learned from Genki I and II in high school and early college, then finished an intermediate course at my university (the last offered, which completed my minor), then didn’t use it in any serious way for six years and resumed serious self-study after coming to Japan. ![]() I took and passed JLPT N3 after Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese, and then got distracted with other things after 中級から上級への日本語, so I never got around to taking N2, I could probably pass it with a bit of a refresher though. I also supplemented things with the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar and Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar. I used Genki I, II, Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese, and 中級から上級への日本語, and I didn’t feel like I had to unlearn anything along the way. I found it explained the grammar points simply and effectively. That’s interesting, I didn’t have that experience using Genki at all.
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