I want to do a full post on what I like in language learning resources and textbooks but for now I’ll just say that for learning Japanese, you can do a lot worse than reading everything that NHK World puts out.
They have an audio series/podcast that is amazing and I just found this textbook that has 48 lessons with really useful phrases. They use romaji throughout so you don’t need to worry about reading the script just yet.
Check it out! https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/update/pdf/leall_en_t.pdf
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