If you are a serious japanese student looking to become fluent, then tobira is a good point of departure. I highly recommend this book for any intermediate learner! After looking over the textbook, it is primarily in japanese, which is good.

Tobira touts its multimedia element. The text shoves lots of vocabulary and grammar patterns in each chapter. Having politeness levels on the dialogues is really helpful.

Tobira covers 503 new kanji (based on jlpt level 2 kanji) with 35 new ones introduced in each chapter. This number is subdivided into kanji that a student must learn to read and write (rw kanji) and those that one need only know how to read. There is ...  Read More

Tobira is great for learning if you want to challenge yourself or completely immerse yourself in the language. It's a large enough challenge that there is a lot to learn and i feel more accomplished since i was stuck at a wall on how i should learn ne...  Read More

Genki books are pretty good for beginners. This textbook is incredibly dense, especially as a third-year student coming off of genki. This is an intermediate/advanced level textbook that expects you to be able to read, write, and understand japanese a...  Read More

The kanji type is too small. The fact that the kanji is super small is frustrating and aggravating.