The BEST Grammar Site http://www.guidetoja......rames.html
The problem with conventional textbooks is that they often have the following goals. They want readers to be able to use functional and polite Japanese as quickly as possible. They don’t want to scare readers away with terrifying Japanese script and Chinese characters.
They want to teach you how to say English phrases in Japanese.
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Learning Japanese Blog http://www.ideogramme.ca/japan/
A wonderfully clever blog about learning Japanese. As grammar is learned the author explains why it was confusing and how it was resolved. Much better than the standard textbook style method.
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Te Form http://www.theforeig......kei/te.htm
The ren'youkei + て (te) is used to combine verbs and verbal adjectives, and to create subordinate clauses. When using the ren'youkei + て (te) to combine verbs or create...
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Grammatical Terms http://sa_yoshi.at.i......ology.html
A list of grammatical terms in Japanese.
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Breen's Trans-Intrans Chart http://www.csse.mona......_list.html
As usual, a very thorough chart showing transitive and intransitive verb pairs. Possibly around 100 pairs with meanings and readings.
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JLPT Grammar Guide http://www.geocities......ammar.html
AGEKU、AGEKU NO Grade 2
Meaning: After much __ing… Used only for negative results, such as “After much worrying, I decided to quit my job.”
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Sentence Structure http://www.mindsprin......struc.html
Japanese sentence structure is classified as SOV (subject-object-verb). English is SVO. However, it is misleading to focus on the order of the verb and object as a source of confusion for Westerners learning Japanese.
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Intermediate Grammar http://www.learn-jap......ebpages/3/
Intermediate level grammar and Japanese instruction.
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MIT Characteristics of Japanese http://web.mit.edu/j......guage.html
The Japanese language is spoken by the approximately 120 million inhabitants of Japan, and by the Japanese living in .....
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Quick and Dirty Guide http://www.csse.mona......guide.html
Many students of Japanese just want to communicate. Sure, they want to say things correctly as often as possible, but ......
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Japanese School Forum http://s9.invisionfr......no_Gakkou/
Online forum for asking hard questions not listed elsewhere.
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Japanese Grammar from JREF http://www.jref.com/......mmar.shtml
The Japanese language has a highly regular agglutinative verb morphology, with both productive and fixed elements.
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Personal Pronouns http://www.jref.com/......ouns.shtml
Contrarily to European languages, Japanese has many different pronouns for each person (I, you, he/she, we...). "I" and "you" have an especially...
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Grammar Structures http://www.japanese-......index.html
This section is for beginners. You can learn Japanese grammar here step by step. Presented in Word and PDF files.
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A Logical Grammar http://homepage3.nif......r_intr.htm
In order to understand one language fundamentally, you need to dig out the deep structure which is ruling all over the activities of the language. However, this is a very boring and tiring process at the beginning.
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Schaum’s Grammar http://www.amazon.co......e&n=283155
Amazon.com: Books: Schaum’s Outline of Japanese Grammar by Keiko Uesawa Chevray,Tomiko Kuwahira
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Sentence Patterns http://www.amazon.co......e&n=283155
Amazon.com: Books: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns (Kodansha Dictionary) by Naoko Chino
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Grammar Database http://www.jgram.org/index.php
Welcome to the newly re-designed JGram! The Japanese Grammar database.
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Te Aru http://www.ling.ed.a......ngale.html
Among the mechanisms in Japanese which express the Aspect of a sentence, verbs can combine together using the conjunctive te.
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Zehi, Kanarazu http://www014.upp.so......ka/jan.htm
There are adverbs and strengthen the meaning of the sentences.
1, "zehi" expresses a request and a hope. So we usually use"zehi" with
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