Genki Textbook Volume 1, 3rd edition (Genki (1)) (Multilingual Edition)

Easy to understand, it helped me a lot with my Japanese courses.

My son is teaching himself to speak in Japanese. He absolutely loved this and uses it all the time. Great buy!

I started using Genki Volume 1 on the recommendation of my Japanese language teacher, who mentioned that this textbook is widely used in language schools across Japan. It’s easy to see why it’s so popular. The book is structured in a way that makes learning accessible and engaging, with clear explanations, practical examples, and a well-balanced approach to both grammar and vocabulary. Each chapter builds on the last, which has really helped me progress smoothly and confidently. I’ve found the exercises especially helpful in reinforcing key concepts and providing plenty of practice with real-world applications. This book has been a fantastic resource, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to build a strong foundation in Japanese.

I love the book, wish they have pdf version for the workbook so I can reuse for my writing practice with letters

Very nice and laid out evenly to understand and decipher. Also I love Jenny’s Number on Page 43 whoever wrote this has good taste IYKYK

Not a bad book but you have to use it in conjunction with other study materials. Nice that the kanji have hiragana superscripts although it is so small you can barely read it. The superscript goes away in genki II lol

As expected thank you

I like how clear this is (while also still tackling a complicated language). I thought I could breeze through these but even lesson one took me a bit to make sure I recalled the information and could practice. Pleased so far!

Book is great full of good information, I find this book alot easier to use then other Japanese text books Ive user Anyone wanting to learn Japanese i would suggest getting this textbook

I thought this Genki Textbook together with the workbook would be a nice combination, but it is not really. The method is far too complicated and there seems to be no structure. In the textbook things are explained in really short ways, with very strangely build up exercises to learn. not very much examples with new grammar as well. Then there is the workbook which seems to have 2 parts and it is never clear to me when to use which. But the most frustrating of the Genki books I feel, is the fact that they are trying to teach you far too much at once. When you've finally mastered the hiragana and katagana in just a few pages....they actually expect you to start reading everyting in them. So when there is a vocabulary list where you can memorise words, the words will be written in Hirgana or even Kanji! Wherease I just want to start learn in how to say "Bank" "postoffice" "school". Now I first have to decypher the Hiragana or Katagana signs, before I know the word. Same goes for grammar explanation. If you want to explain to people how the "ni" , "de" and "o" particles work, the exercies in the workbook shoudl NOT be written in hiragana/Katagana or Kanji. I have a hard enough time trying to find the right ways to build a sentence, without having to decypher and then translate everything. This is actually really slowing me down as it would be so much better to just learn grammar in English and do the exercices in romaji. I find explanations on the internet also far better than the rather short and complicated ones in Genki.

Das Buch ist in einwandfreiem Zustand angekommen und genau wie beschrieben. Genki I ist ideal für den Einstieg ins Japanischlernen - logisch aufgebaut und gut erklärt. Besonders positiv: Der Verkäufer hat sich persönlich gemeldet, um nachzufragen, ob alles angekommen ist. Sehr freundlich - klare Empfehlung!

Love it. It is easy to learn Japanese in this way. The instructions are clear. Learned a lot in a very short amount of time. Worth the purchase if you want to learn fast and structured.

I took Japanese at University, where we used Marugoto. Marugoto is good for practice, mainly by providing lots of vocabulary (kanji+) and online resources. However, the textbook doesn't explain grammar well (what you're doing and why). I find Genki so much easier to follow and remember grammar structures. It starts from the basics and slowly builds upon the previously established systems. I got my book promptly. It's also nice that it comes with a code for the apps (you still have to pay for them). I look forward to finishing with Genki 1 and moving on to my Genki 2 textbook.