A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

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A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

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I think they do this so that it’s accessible to everyone, since they use a lot of kanji throughout the book, but I suppose they could have used furigana for those it they had wanted to. If you previously used A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (book no. 1 on this list), it would make sense to continue your learning journey with A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar. Designed for beginners, this dictionary features around 200 key grammar items, along with an analysis of sentence patterns, collocations, usage, and in-depth explanations. It also includes notes on casual and formal speech, abbreviations, particles, and more. It tells you what kind of grammar it is, gives you a short elevator-pitch sized description of what that grammar point does, and then tries to give you the closest English translation. In addition, it gives you some key sentences to help you to understand how it's used, and then it goes into more details with examples, more explanation, and notes. That’s just one of the things you have to get used to when learning Japanese. The language also heavily relies on particles and there are 188 of these in Japanese! Plus, there are multiple levels of politeness. But it’s also nice to not worry about noun genders, plural forms, and complicated conjugations.

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The fourth and fifth sections, consisting of eight appendixes and three indexes, complete the text. You get the word and its explanation first, then there is a key sentence that has each part broken down piece by piece so that you can see how it works. Anon Random: For sentence cards only. Between 1 and 6 sentence are randomly selected for the front of the card. Unlike the Core Random style above, the sentences will remain consistent across devices per day. Source. The basic sentence structure in English is SVO (subject-verb-object) but in Japanese, it’s SOV (subject-object-verb). Here’s a sample to illustrate: I did read the introductory material and it does exclusively refer to the reader as "he" but it has a nice basic overview of Japanese grammar written in clear language (that language being English) with simple examples and includes an explanation of the passive that actually made some sense. The same cannot be said for the mystifying section on viewpoint, which while clarifying the thought behind the mechanics of the various giving/receiving verbs, also offered a bunch of perspective rules, all of which you could break if you were writing fiction in English, and I assume in Japanese as well....? Except, in what non-fiction sense would you ever need to speak from the POV of a dead person? I don't know, but it's something this book cautions you against doing.One of the most user-friendly Japanese grammar books for English speakers, Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communicationpresents 142 essential Japanese sentence patterns in a way that even absolute beginners can comprehend.

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If there's one thing we seem to focus on a lot at Tofugu, it's online resources. If you're learning Japanese, you can get almost everything you need online. Online textbooks, resources, apps, and even tutors can be acquired. Physical textbooks, dictionaries, and flashcards are becoming a thing of the past.When I took a look at the intermediate book, I saw that romaji had been completely eliminated, so this reinforces my belief that it’s used in the first one simply because it’s the “basic” book out of the three. Japanese has the reputation of being one of the hardest languages to learn for English speakers, partly because of grammar. While I believe it’s not necessarily harder than other languages, the Japanese sentence structure is very different from English. Cloze deletion: The front of the card shows a sentence with a grammatical term blanked out, alongside a description of that term's meaning. You have to fill in the blank. I think if you’re still pretty new to Japanese, then it would be worth going over, but if you’ve been studying for a couple months then you could probably skip this section. What’s more, this book includes a lot of practice sections to allow the reader to test his or her understanding of the lesson.

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I also love the use of many various names in the example sentences repeated throughout the book--helps to remember kanji names. And so, if you’re learning a decidedly complex language like Japanese, it’s important to come to grips with grammar. And while you can do these with the help of Japanese learning books, you can be a little bit more specific by reading Japanese grammar books. Why learn Japanese grammar from books?This book is not a Japanese textbook that slowly and systematically introduces the language to new students. It kind of just throws you into things with the Japanese words and examples that are used to illustrate a grammar concept. The only real criticism I have is that some of the English language explanations aren't as clear as they could be. However, this book more than makes up for those occasional dictionaries through its extensive use of examples. This book is one of the most entertaining ways to learn Japanese grammar. It’s best suited for intermediate learners but it can also be used as a refresher for advanced learners. This is the only book I've found that does not require you to know the English grammatical term for what you want to look up. You simply identify the structure in Japanese that you're looking for and find it alphabetically. There are a handful of things that don't really have a set pattern to look up (ex. relative clauses) for which you just look up the English, but that is the significant minority of cases.



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