An introduction to Japanese

Re:An introduction to Japanese by redthrow on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:51PM (#12286550)

I'm sorry but I think the book is getting priorities wrong when the learner's goal is to learn practical Japanese.

Also I think some example sentences in the book would sound awkward to native speakers. (e.g. "今日自転車で帰り中で転んでしまいました", "もっと安いのありましょうか", "お箸の使い方に慣れてない人に難しいです" (this may be a typo), "きれいじゃないで、明るい部屋です", etc.)

I think this girl gives better advice on how to learn Japanese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonYTz0txKI

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Re:An introduction to Japanese by TheRealPomax on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:59PM (#12286580)

Then it should please you to know that is not the goal of the book. This is a grammar (a type of educational book), not a "Learn Japanese" course book, and is to supplement courses (institutional or personal) in Japanese, to act as reference and deep-dive material =)

As for odd sounding sentences: nice! let me know about them on the github repo. Link's in the side nav as the github icon, but the direct link is https://github.com/Pomax/nrGrammar/issues

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