iknow

[karu_chan]

I've been doing iknow since mid-November. For learning vocabulary and writing kanji, this is the program that worked best for me so far. Of course, it's not intended to teach you grammer, but maybe, one day

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[mit_souko]

Good for you to have stuck with it. Perseverance with self study is the hardest part. I used to be much better with it when I was all fired up at the beginning than I am now.

For grammar, in my experience the best books have been those by Taeko Kamiya. I can highly recommend them. I have her:
Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication
The Handbook of Japanese adjectives and Adverbs
The Handbook of Japanese Verbs.

The first one is perhaps the most useful, but I like the other two very much as well. Each has good examples, written in English, with the translation in romanji and Japanese script. Very useful lists and short lexicons at the end of each. I bought them one at a time through Amazon [US].

[karu_chan]

I think I have at least one of those books, there is just one problem: No shiny stats _._

Somehow things like that keep my motivated. That I can SEE how much I've studied.

Perseverance with self study is the hardest part.
Which is why shiny things help me A LOT ^^;;;

I wish somebody would make something like iKnow for grammer too...

[jo_lasalle]

Those are some pretty impressive stats! Go you! (I still have zero items mastered. ;_;)

[karu_chan]

Keep on going.
It takes quite a few hours until you master your first items, but once you've reached that point... :-)