Essential Japanese Grammar: A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Usage: Learn Japanese Grammar and Vocabulary Quickly and Effectively

· Tuttle Publishing
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Essential Japanese Grammar is an indispensable study guide for students of the Japanese language at all levels.

Long the standard in Japanese language education, it provides clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese grammar works and offers hundreds of example sentences. An essential handbook for self-study or the classroom, students will find that a strong foundation in grammar is vital to those wishing to learn Japanese.

Essential Japanese Grammar presents many unique features. First, grammatical terminology has been kept to a minimum so that extensive prior knowledge of grammar is not required. Second, abundant example sentences are written in Japanese characters (kana and kanji) followed by romanji and English translations. Third, the authors have tried to reveal aspects of grammar that may not be found in comparable grammar books--such as rare Japanese verbs, adjectival nouns, clauses, adverbs, etc.

This Japanese grammar book contains:
  • Parts of speech.
  • Sentence constructions.
  • Conjugations forms.
  • Speech styles and tones.
  • Accentuation rules.
  • Essential words and functional elements.
  • An appendix for referencing and cross-referencing Japanese words.

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3.8
21 reviews
April Fellenberg
March 19, 2016
I didn't buy it, but this looks like an awful teaching aid.
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Anita Tsuchiya
May 21, 2016
I want to buy this book but I do not have a credit card. I can buy it by cash but how and where to go to find it. I wish somebody may help me
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Robert Chifflet
November 11, 2016
When will they offer a kana version as, say, part 2 ? As alt edition ??
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About the author

Masahiro Tanimori is associate professor of Japanese education at Tottori University in Japan. He is the author of Handbook of Japanese Grammar.

Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Japanese and translation studies at the State of University of New York at Stony Brook, where she is also the Director of the Japanese Teacher Education Program. She has authored and co-authored over a dozen books, including Japanese Stories for Language Learners and Learning Japanese Kanji. She has also authored or co-authored Contemporary Japanese, Japanese Demystified, Japanese for Dummies, Complete Japanese Grammar, Japanese Phrases for Dummies, Basic Japanese, and My First Japanese Kanji Book.

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