Hat sich nach unserer Dozentin nicht gelohnt, immer die zusätzlichen Arbeitshefte zu kaufen, geht ja aufs Geld und Kopieren kostet ja nicht die Welt!

It does not teach you many fundamental basic Japanese structure and start your journey with polite langauge. There are up to 8 different workbooks for Minna no Nihongo and an additional textbook focusing on Kanji characters only. I think Genki will offer the same, plus the resources of Genki, the design, etc… is newer, more interesting I believe.Richtig schreiben, weil es ja immer eine Schreibrichtung gibt und weil unsere Dozentin mal gerne Zusatzpunkte in Test gibt, mussten wir manchmal das 3. What I didn’t know when I picked up minna no nihongo was that the main textbook is completely in Japanese.

In the end, everything comes down to preference so you should at least give this textbook here a proper look.

For teachers: At 「みんなの日本語倶楽部」 ("Minna no Nihongo Club"), you can see details of the series, useful content for classes, and articles on how to use the books. It's not until the te-form is discussed that the groups the verbs belong to are indicated, so all lists in my copy have the dictionary forms scribbled next to them. Those workbooks that start from the very beginning and gradually go up are really helpful to train listening. It was a while ago, so I don’t remember well, but the levels felt quite similar, both MNN and Genki teach about the same basic grammar. I kind of wished there was some more workbooks for listening that didn't fall into the "practise for the JLPT Listening section".

Me iré a estudiar a Japón y me piden nivel antes de ir para saber en que clase meterme, me dicen el libro que utilizan para guiarnos en este caso es Genki 1 y 2, pero yo uso Minna no Nihongo y voy por la lección 12, por lo que no sé a que equivale con el que yo uso y por lo tanto no sé en cual meterme.

However, for all those who don't, get to learn the basic japanese alphabets beforehand - this book has them at the beginning, but not the translation of the sounds in rōmaji (latin letters) nor the sound of each character.