Paid service recommendations?

[visual anchor]

Hey, I'm wondering if anyone knows a good resource that costs money but is worth the cost for learning japanese. I've been considering paying for a paid "graded reader" service - dunno which one yet - but I thought I'd ask here if anyone has something that they think would help.

Kinds of resources I am thinking of:

• Graded reading or reading in general
• Bunpro or similar
• Any other resource that provides a bit more of an integrated, user-friendly immersion experience at the cost of, well, money.
• Any other thing I could be spending money on to get better at japanese

[analog pulsar]

I didn't use it but Satori Reader does look like one of the best things to spend money on as a beginner. Pretty quickly it becomes better to spend money on content and maybe coaching. Then a bit later, tutoring and some content creators have fanclub discord servers that I've heard really good things about.
I can't recommend Bunpro and similar. It's a bad way to learn textbooky grammar - which isn't even helpful until you're interested in passing tests or polishing your writing.

[digital solar]

I second the recommendation for Satori Reader. Bunpro is not worth paying for except for the use cases Glass mentioned. You can use Bunpro for grammar lookups for free during your immersion, which is 100x more useful than paying to grind their silly SRS

[visual anchor]

Thanks, I might give Satori a shot. I do plan on tutoring at some point, when I have a bit more skill and money

[lilac glen]

@digital solar what’s the best workflow for satori reader? I had a trial but found I was taking way too long to read the pages so I just stopped. I also have been only studying Japanese for 4 months

[digital solar]

Not sure what you mean. The usual intensive reading workflow applies.

1. Skip sentences higher than 2T right away
2. For sentences 2T or lower, try reading the sentence first and see what you can get from context before doing lookups
3. Repeat

[lilac glen]

I’m assuming 2T is a sentence where there’s two words you don’t know?

[digital solar]

Yep, that's the easiest way to think about it. The T stands for target. The target is the unknown element. It could be vocab or grammar

[lilac glen]

Cool. Do you always add the target words to anki or only if it’s an interesting word to you?

[digital solar]

Only if the word feels useful/interesting and it's in a good 1T sentence that I'm fairly confident won't end up just being a leech.