# Recommendations for advanced Japanese textbooks?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 29, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-advanced-japanese-textbooks/583672 "2011-05-29T17:18:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-advanced-japanese-textbooks/583672/1 "2011-05-29T17:18:49Z")

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Background: I did Japanese for two years in university, and we finished Nobuko Mizutani’s Introduction to Intermediate Japanese. At present I can read manga and (simple) books without trouble, but college textbooks, news articles, and very dense prosaic novels still baffle me. So are there any textbooks I could look at buying to continue studying, or am I at a point where I should just be reading as much Japanese stuff as I can and looking up what I don’t recognize?