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I bought this book at Borders earlier, and I have to admit, it's THE best book on Japanese grammar I have ever read. It's simple to use, because it was written for people who had to learn the (spoken, written will take longer.) language in a few weeks. In one hour, I had nearly doubled my understanding of the language. This book starts off with Kana. Giving a chart with Kana on it, and explanations about the difference between Hiragana, and Katakana. Then the book goes on to explain what Kanji is all about. It turns out, Kanji is NOT as hard as it seems. Basically, you have to remember the strokes of less than 300 radicals, and you can write Kanji. Reading it is a different story though. But the book teaches you about compounds and how to remember kanji. (The Kanji section really isn't particularly in depth at this point.) Then it goes on to explain the concepts of
-desu and -masu in two different chapters. And it goes on from there. It also has an in depth glossary of common Japanese terms.
This book is easy to use, and it's WONDERFUL in teaching the average Joe the language. If you want to learn Japanese, I would recommend picking this up. This is a KILLLER book for those late-night Japanese parties. ^^
Edit: Just wanted to add, I'm still looking for a good, easy-to-use English book that I can copy and post on these forums for some of the newer posters to look at. XD
I bought this book at Borders earlier, and I have to admit, it's THE best book on Japanese grammar I have ever read. It's simple to use, because it was written for people who had to learn the (spoken, written will take longer.) language in a few weeks. In one hour, I had nearly doubled my understanding of the language. This book starts off with Kana. Giving a chart with Kana on it, and explanations about the difference between Hiragana, and Katakana. Then the book goes on to explain what Kanji is all about. It turns out, Kanji is NOT as hard as it seems. Basically, you have to remember the strokes of less than 300 radicals, and you can write Kanji. Reading it is a different story though. But the book teaches you about compounds and how to remember kanji. (The Kanji section really isn't particularly in depth at this point.) Then it goes on to explain the concepts of
-desu and -masu in two different chapters. And it goes on from there. It also has an in depth glossary of common Japanese terms.
This book is easy to use, and it's WONDERFUL in teaching the average Joe the language. If you want to learn Japanese, I would recommend picking this up. This is a KILLLER book for those late-night Japanese parties. ^^
Edit: Just wanted to add, I'm still looking for a good, easy-to-use English book that I can copy and post on these forums for some of the newer posters to look at. XD
. I'll definitely check into these books as a supplement to my study.
We have many japanese students here I really expect a japanese class.
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