Do You Have Tips/suggested Websites And Apps For Japanese Learning? Duolingo Is A Nightmare To Work With

Do you have tips/suggested websites and apps for Japanese learning? Duolingo is a nightmare to work with for me.

Alphabet first is definitely the biggest advice

Lingodeer over Duolingo imo, it has better pacing and deeper documentation per step

Paul Noble's audiobooks was great for grammar and sentence forming (as well as getting to hear Japanese)

When you feel up to learning some Kanji, WaniKani is a site I've just bought lifetime membership for, it really works for me

I just started playing Learn Japanese RPG: Hiragana Forbidden Language on Steam too which is teaching me lots of phrases (and helps refine alphabet)

Also the YouTube channel GameGengo is a personal favourite as he uses games as his canvas for teaching which I enjoy

Corocoro comic in Japan is like Shonen Jump but for younger kids. It has furigana meaning you can easily use Google translate to slowly self translate and learn. They have tons of their comics free on their website

Then aside from random TikTok creators I follow I think that's all my learning resources currently. HEARING Japanese is just as important as reading it, so you can get used to pronunciation and the like - I listen to Japan Top 50 on Spotify, watch anime (obviously pronunciation is exaggerated there) and podcasts exist too so you can hear it, even if you don't understand what's being said

Edit: I can't believe I forgot to mention HelloTalk, I basically use it like Twitter but for JP / ENG crossover posts. I ignore a lot of its other features

And once you're feeling more confident Todaii has daily articles from Japanese media with labelling for N5 and beyond levels (lots of furigana too)

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