Maggie Sensei

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Best for: Natural and casual expressions

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Overview

Long-running free blog of Japanese lessons on grammar points and casual expressions, with many example sentences.

Strengths

Lots of examples

Drawbacks

Blog format, not ordered as a course

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ToKini Andy

Learning grammar by video alongside Genki

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YouTube channel with hundreds of free Japanese lessons, best known for a series that walks through every chapter of the Genki textbooks, explaining the grammar and building practice sentences. Relaxed and funny enough to listen to on the go. His website, tokiniandy.com, adds paid companion courses with exercises and tests for Genki and Quartet.

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Grammar review by JLPT level

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Grammar study tool that teaches points by JLPT level and reviews them with fill-in-the-blank sentences on a spaced repetition schedule.

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