Re:Reverse Engineering the Japanese Sentence
by kazinator on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:35PM
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What good is knowing how verbs work, if you don't know any of them? Vocabulary is the corner-stone of learning a language.
You can make yourself understood using simple sentences and botched grammar, if the key words in them are the right ones.
You can't even study grammar without vocabulary, because grammar study uses examples. Examples loaded with words you don't understand are poorly conducive to learning.
The best resources for Japanese grammar assume that you can read. You get some furigana over some of the kanji and that's it.
You can make yourself understood using simple sentences and botched grammar, if the key words in them are the right ones.
You can't even study grammar without vocabulary, because grammar study uses examples. Examples loaded with words you don't understand are poorly conducive to learning.
The best resources for Japanese grammar assume that you can read. You get some furigana over some of the kanji and that's it.