I NEED A HAND! Can anyone tell me how you learned Japanese?

Hello guys,

Recently I teach Japanese to my friend(he can understand basic japanese). We've already done it 2 times without any textbooks. However, it was not really rational to learn. So I need a guide to improve his japanese step by step in a good way.

First, It's difficult to find a good text in internet. I wanna teach grammar like "should, may, can", how to manage to say "at 11 o'clock" for examples. And a well made vocabulary list which has many words to learn was not there as well. Perhaps My searching was not enough though....
Second, We are both in Germany, so we can't get any Japanese textbook in English here. At least I tried to find it in bookshops.

Therefore I will be so grad, if you tell me a suggestion or how you learned, taught.
I hope someone knows.
Thank you for reading!

I used to use Mina No Nihongo when i was in Japan. There are three of them (different levels) and are written in many languages. You may be able to find them in bookstores of big cities in Germany.

Hope this helps : )

I'm starting to learn japanese and our teacher given us some website to improve our learning...
may be you can find what you want here : muc-portal.muc.meiji...ts/japaneseedu/

>Trav.KL

I would find "Minnano nihongo" in Germany, but I'm sure it's all written in German...
Well, I'm gonna check it out in Amazon.de.

> marshmalloww
The web site is totally brilliant, especially the links form there. Some of them are unique and eye-catching. lol They look really helpful.

Thanks for quick answering!

yeah that's right
your welcome and good luck!

just go to the japanese course
or buy japanese grammar and books for starters lol

I have used this textbook and it is very good.

www.amazon.com/Genki...k/dp/4789010015

if you don't want to buy, you can try to down the pirated pdf version

I won't post the link here, but you can google it...just type in "genki japanese textbook pdf"

I am learning Korean right now - but i also have a course in Japanese and in Mandarin - that i will get to later - but i use Pimsleur Approach to Language Learning by Simon and Schuster - i like it alot - it is audio based and has a booklet for the written part of the language along with the readings in audio for it I learn fast with this so...

>emmayabie
The point is, I am the teacher and I got little money for it. :/ that's why i need the material to teach..... so he goes to Japanese course!

> trigger821
I have to take a look that it's a good text book or not..
The title is so funny for me anyway. lol

> passionatefanatic7

I didn't expect Textbook with audio for use. it might be good for homework.
Or I can record my voice dialogue for it. lol