Essential Japanese Grammar: Dover Foreign Lanuage Study Guide by E.F. Bleiler


Essential Japanese Grammar: Dover Foreign Lanuage Study Guide
Title : Essential Japanese Grammar: Dover Foreign Lanuage Study Guide
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ISBN : 0486210278
ISBN-10 : 9780486210278
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 156
Publication : First published June 1, 1963

This logical, developmental presentation of the major aspects of Japanese grammar includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire the basics of everyday Japanese, this grammar features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher.

Essential Japanese Grammar: Dover Foreign Lanuage Study Guide Reviews

  • Adriana

    This book is almost 50 years old by the time I read it, so a couple of things are way out of fashion in modern Japanese (at least according to my teacher), but it has some of the most concise and easy to grasp explanations of the most important and basic grammatical elements that I’ve ever seen.
    Just one quick look thru it and I finally got the difference between 2 particles that had been plaguing me for a year and no amount of explanation from several teachers could clear up for me.
    I highly recommend it not just for when you’re learning but as a reference. The quick look tables it includes should be mandatory teaching/learning tools for all foreigners.

  • Nancy Foster

    I really love this book. HOWEVER! There is one huge warning that is a major defect of this book: it only focuses on Japanese in the romanji writing system. In order to fully understand how Japanese works, you are highly advised to master katakana, hiragana and begin to learn at least the more important On and Kun yomi pronounciations of the most commonly used kanji.

    If you take away the limitations of this book, it's still great. Did you know that Japanese doesn't have a future tense as such? You have to add a word like tomorrow, next week or a specific hour in order to imply something will happen later.

    The book explains verb tenses, negative, a basic introduction to politeness degrees in pronouns, some idioms (many people complain the idioms used are sort of unfashionable but native speakers will understand you nonetheless), adverbs, adjectives and the two numerical counting systems.

    I really love this book, it has helped me so much speaking to people during my two trips to Japan. It's such a shame they don't release an updated version in kindle because the book is really worth it. My copy is covered with coffee stains and the front cover is falling apart from overuse. One of the few books I read over and over again.