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All 3 of these books (beginners, intermediate and advanced) are brilliant for Japanese learners. If like me you are learning Japanese at degree level they are invaluable for formal writing. Each grammar point is clearly explained with a concise English meaning and then the formation is set out. There are lots of example sentences to put the grammar in context. Similar grammar is also explained with the often very subtle, differences in formality or context explained. They even give you example sentences where the grammar point has been used wrongly.
You can look up a grammar point in English in the index in the back, or in Japanese. It will give the page number and the book if the grammar is in a different level of book.
I browsed the bookshop in Japan thoroughly before I bought these, and despite the steep price (and weight) they are well worth the investment. I've finished my degree now but I can't bring myself to part with them, as they're a really interesting read, and there's still so much grammar I never learnt!
You can look up a grammar point in English in the index in the back, or in Japanese. It will give the page number and the book if the grammar is in a different level of book.
I browsed the bookshop in Japan thoroughly before I bought these, and despite the steep price (and weight) they are well worth the investment. I've finished my degree now but I can't bring myself to part with them, as they're a really interesting read, and there's still so much grammar I never learnt!
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The Best (English) Text for Advanced Japanese Grammar
5 Mar 2011
This text will, admittedly, be challenging to use IF your proficiency in Japanese has yet to have gotten to the point to where you can fully digest the material within its pages properly. If it is sufficient, however, you will NOT find a more comprehensive and useful text on the U.S. market for beginning about the challenging process of acquiring a strong understanding of "advanced" Japanese grammar. I purchased my copy when it first hit the shelves in Japan, and still reference it today. It is a fantastically well-done work of scholarship!
I do not make this assertion lightly. I have taken and passed Grade 1 (1 kyuu) of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, and trained in Japanese at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California, where I became a DOD-certified Japanese linguist.
Please remember. . . Japanese is not like Spanish or French. It takes a VERY considerable investment of both time and effort to acquire a functional proficiency in it--still more, for a working proficiency. Don't rush it. Just as you have to go through the basics in mathematics before graduating into Algebra and beyond, so, too, must you in your language studies (all the more, if that language happens to be Japanese, Korean, Arabic, or Chinese!). If you try to hit the highway too soon, you will wipe yourself out. (You could become discouraged or, worse still, get into the habit of speaking atrociously bad Japanese, because you haven't properly mastered the basics yet.)
I do not make this assertion lightly. I have taken and passed Grade 1 (1 kyuu) of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, and trained in Japanese at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California, where I became a DOD-certified Japanese linguist.
Please remember. . . Japanese is not like Spanish or French. It takes a VERY considerable investment of both time and effort to acquire a functional proficiency in it--still more, for a working proficiency. Don't rush it. Just as you have to go through the basics in mathematics before graduating into Algebra and beyond, so, too, must you in your language studies (all the more, if that language happens to be Japanese, Korean, Arabic, or Chinese!). If you try to hit the highway too soon, you will wipe yourself out. (You could become discouraged or, worse still, get into the habit of speaking atrociously bad Japanese, because you haven't properly mastered the basics yet.)
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not so user friendly but ok
3 Mar 2011
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I found this one and the rest of the set not so user friendly at first but after getting into it and getting to understand how it is set up, you can find what you are looking for but still some things needed more explanation because of ambiguity in the English language.
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