How do I know I am an intermediate Japanese learner?

You can finish beginner textbook chapters, read graded news with help, and you are blocked by volume, speed, or retrieval rather than kana. If every app still feels like lesson one, stay on the beginner hub.

Should I keep using Duolingo at intermediate?

Not as the main study. Keep it only if it is a five-minute warmup you already finish. Replace the core with reading, listening, and a course that uses real sentences.

Do I need Tobira after Genki?

Tobira is a common next textbook if you will do the chapters. It is not mandatory. Reading volume plus a grammar reference can replace a second heavy book if the book would sit closed.

Japanese resources for intermediate learners

Intermediate study is more input and fewer stacked beginner apps. Keep one review loop. Add reading, listening, and a grammar reference you will actually open.

No resources match that search or filter. Clear the query or try a broader category.

Intermediate Japanese is usually not a missing app. It is not enough Japanese on the page.

If you still need a first course, kana, and a dictionary habit, use the beginner hub. This page is for people who finished a beginner series, or who have been circling beginner apps for a year.

The jobs change:

Input volume: pages and audio you can finish at a stretch.
Retrieval: grammar and words that appear when a sentence asks, not only when an app shows a prompt.
Lookup infrastructure: a dictionary that lives on the text, not a separate homework step.
One review loop: keep it. Do not restart it.

A next course, not a new beginner path

Tobira is the usual textbook after Genki or Minna no Nihongo. It is heavy. Open it after you actually finished a beginner series. Jumping early is how chapters stall.

If a second textbook would sit closed, skip it. Spend that time on reading. A course is useful only if the exercises happen.

Grammar you can retrieve

Explanations you have read are not the same as patterns you can produce.

Bunpro is for typed retrieval in sentences. Keep reading beside it so the pattern exists outside a blank. A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar is a lookup shelf, not a syllabus. Buy it to check entries, not to read three volumes in order.

Do not add Bunpro, a new textbook, and a third grammar SRS in the same week. Details are in How to move from beginner apps to intermediate Japanese.

Reading until it is ordinary

Satori Reader annotates stories and dialogues with audio. Use the free chapters before paying. Tadoku is for finishing easy books. NHK News Web Easy still works if a daily article is the habit that actually happens.

The shortlist is Japanese reading resources for beginners. Intermediate readers still use those sources. They just finish more of them.

Lookup on the page

Yomitan is the hover dictionary for browser text. It is setup-heavy and worth it once you can scan kana. It is not a course. Pair it with pages you already intend to finish.

Listening that is not another lesson app

Language Reactor helps if you already watch Japanese video and want dual subtitles. It is a poor replacement for a podcast or news audio you never press play on. Keep one daily audio source. Add video tools only if the show is already in your life.

Kanji without rebuilding your whole stack

WaniKani is a sequenced kanji path. Add it if the absence of a kanji plan is the bottleneck, not if you want a full Japanese course. Compare it with Anki in Anki vs WaniKani before paying for a second review identity.

If you already have a working SRS, read How to use SRS without burning out before stacking WaniKani on top.

What to stop

Stop collecting beginner apps that still teach hiragana proudly. Stop restarting Genki from lesson one as a comfort ritual. Stop running three review queues that all claim to be the main event.

Keep the review system you already use if it fits an ordinary day. Add input. Combine the pieces on purpose with How to combine a textbook, SRS, reading, and listening.