ネイティブが教える英会話のジェムスクール☆Teachers☆

As learners of japanese will know, there tends to be not a huge selection of books at the intermediate level. One of the most famous ones is "Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese" - most of the authors are or have been professors at the University of Michigan (my home state :D). Don't worry, my blog post is not about this intermediate level textbook, but about a new textbook the authors have put out during this pandemic actually. It was just released July of this year - the workbooks and beginning II book will be released next year. And already I must say that is an awesome book; not only does it look good visually, but the authors have made it for the digital age, so there are QR codes throughout the book that link to more indepth pronunciation and grammar explanations. The vocabulary lists (about seventy words per unit and there are ten units in first book) include both images organized by opposites (big - small) and also the typical bland list of words (if you prefer learning that way). I cannot wait to dive deeper into the book, and am anxiously awaiting the second volume and accompanying workbooks; I think based on my cursory glance through the book that it really does have the potential to rival the infamous Genki textbook series.