A Guide to Japanese Grammar: A Japanese approach to learning Japanese grammar

I purchased the blue book version, printed in 2014, and it is smaller than the orange one (2012). It is easy to carry around in my purse around Tokyo. I've been studying using this textbook in Tokyo parks, restaurants, coffee shops, on the densha (JR train), while walking.... It has a wax-like coated cover (which is great given that Japan rains a lot) and gives it a nice, soft feel on the hands. I just wish there was a kindle formatted version too. Please, Mr. Kim, onegaishimasu. Personally, my core set for learning Japanese, the cream-of-the-crop best items, is as follows: 1. Genki I and II, including the workbooks, 2nd edition - the textbook for UCLA Japanese classes. Absolute gem of a book. This is your go-to "traditional" textbook. 2. Heisig's Remembering the Kanji - Remember 2000 kanji in 2 months? Yes. It's amazing. 3. Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar (my cliff notes) - Great refresher for stuff you learned. This book is like the golden notebook that you stole from that A+ student in your college Japanese class. 4. "Japanese" app by Renzo Inc. from the Apple Store. Includes wwwjdic dictionary, all conjugations for every word (volitional, transitive, past, present, polite form, etc.) , a built in flashcard builder, kanji stroke order videos for all kanji, and more from this sweet app. Absolute must purchase. This is like a super-dictionary. Don't have an iPhone? Buy an iPod Touch 5th gen. and get this app. It is worth buying an iPod Touch just for this app. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Optional study supplementals which are great for learning Japanese: s1. White Rabbit Press - Kanji Flashcards 1, 2, 3 - best Japanese flashcards around with all the Joyou Kanji. s2. NihonShock's Cheat Sheet Pack - 10 laminated colorful notes of all the vital Japanese grammar s3. Anki - a flashcard program that lets you download shared cards created by other users & allows you to make your own flashcards on the computer.

Excellent book for learning basic Japanese grammar! It starts at the very beginning, and though it's definitely a bit confusing at first, it makes sense to learn grammar the way he teaches it: the hard way. By starting with the basic building blocks, it's much easier to learn how more complex Japanese grammar works. Begins with basic state-of-being grammar, particles, past tense/negative verbs, then goes on to the rest of the more difficult stuff. It makes heavy use of kanji from the very beginning, but don't let that worry you; it uses many of the same words over and over again, and hopefully you're using another source to learn kanji properly (Heisig, Wanikani, etc.) since it definitely doesn't teach them properly. A good guide to be used in conjunction with Genki (or your textbook of choice) for vocabulary; this guide can be used as a backup for grammar explanations or you can choose to entirely ignore what your textbook says and go off of this. It present everything in a pretty straightforward way, the only confusing parts are the example sentences: the English translations are always literal, with no regular English translation that makes sense. A lot of the literal sentences make no sense, and sometimes makes it difficult to understand what the sentence in Japanese (which you already don't understand) means. Overall, it's a great grammar guide. Clear, concise, and thorough.

Through immersing in Japanese and using this guide I think this is a lot better than genki. I think genki is great for those in a class and o my want to have class level language ability but I think this book used with MIA mass immersion approach is a lot better it's been recommended by people who reached a high level of fluency and as I'm using it I find it not hard to understand. The best way to learn grammar isn't by writing it over and over using note taking methods or by studying for tests and practicing the language as if it's a formula but by seeing it in immersion in native Japanese content. The grammar points for some things go in depth and kind of build off of each other, not for everything but for grammar points that are relative to another, the cover is really nice a kind of matte material most things are easy to find and the book itself is not too big PLUS the author has this stuff FOR FREE on his website and as a PDF do you don't even really have to buy it. But I still like the printed book it's a good way to remember the grammar by reading it on a physical paper back so I'd definitely recommend it to those wanting to study Japanese like me and I also recommend Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig for kanji characters as well. Thanks for reading and have a nice day/night!

Excellent guide de Grammaire japonaise. Une référence absolue. C'est en anglais évidemment. La version en français (et en anglais) existent sur le website de l'auteur. Pourquoi l'acheter alors? Eh bien, c'est vraiment très utile de pouvoir jeter un œil rapide sur certains points. C'est très bien expliqué et SURTOUT zéro rômaji; ceux-ci sont absolument à bannir de tout manuel de japonais si on veut intégrer les kanas dans notre esprit. Le mot japonais "doit" apparaître dans notre esprit en japonais, jamais en rômaji.

Very well made. It's got all you need to tackle this language right from the beginning.

Great guide, extensive. I wouldn't recommend to a new learner until you have cemented a solid foundational understanding as it skims over the basic grammar.

If you're learning Japanese, this is a mist-have book for you. It has almost every grammar rule. Every rule has example sentences so that you can understand with the context. While some are difficult to understand, it generally is very very useful.

Très bon livre pour apprendre le japonais en allant droit au but. Beaucoup de livres de ce type sont généralement très académiques et enseignent un Japonais archaïque que vous n'utiliserez jamais lors de vos discussions avec des locuteurs natifs. Ou alors ils, vous forcent à mémoriser par cœur tout un tas de règles que vous aurez aussitôt oublié une fois le cours terminé. Avec le livre de Tae Kim, je n'ai pas eu cette impression, la mise en page est certes spartiates, mais le contenu est de qualité et j'apprécie que l'auteur s'efforce d'expliquer la grammaire japonaise de la manière la plus simple et efficace possible. Si vous voulez non seulement apprendre, mais aussi comprendre la logique derrière la langue japonaise, ce livre devrait vous être utile