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Erin's Challenge: free video series from the Japan Foundation following a student in Japan, with lessons on everyday phrases and culture.
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GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, published by The Japan Times. Two textbooks (Genki I and II) with matching workbooks take beginners through grammar, conversation, reading, writing and kanji. The official site has free extra resources and audio.
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Beginner textbook series from 3A Corporation, written entirely in Japanese, with separate Translation & Grammar Notes books available in many languages. Widely used in language schools in Japan, and now in a third edition.
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NHK World's free Easy Japanese course: short audio lessons built around a story, each teaching one key phrase, with text, grammar notes and quizzes.
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Japanese course that combines lessons, vocabulary and spaced repetition reviews in one daily study session, aiming to take learners up to high proficiency.
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Large library of audio and video Japanese lessons sorted by level, with transcripts, vocabulary lists and an audio dictionary.
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