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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
This question has been answered a billion times here. Yookoso, Genki, or Minna no Nihongo are the standard university choices, and they're all fine.
It practically doesn't matter what book you get; the biggest factor is how hard you're willing to work. I put in 8+ hours per week of time actually speaking the language starting from the first day I opened the textbook at university.
PS There is a search function. If you have a question, search to see if it's been asked before from now on, OK? Thanks.
After you're done with one of those texts (I'm familiar and Yookoso is what we used—volumes 1 and 2), then branch out into books like Naoko Chino's Japanese Verbs at a Glance and stuff like that. But once you're done with vols. 1-2 of Yookoso, you should start using books that are written in Japanese such as ALC's どんな時どう使う日本語表現文型500. You'll be at JLPT level 2 for sure then, provided you've also been using something like Kanji in Context or Kanji ABC (Tamura) to study kanji at a rate of 10-20 per week, making sure you actually learn them and don't just memorize them for a week and then forget them. You can ensure your retention by using a (free) program like Anki to make flashcards on your computer (Mac, Linux, or Windows).
I intend this to be my magnum opus of "how to learn Japanese."
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>_< Oh yeah, search could help too, thanks for the tips!