Essential Japanese Grammar: A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Usage: Learn Japanese Grammar and Vocabulary Quickly and Effectively
By (Author) Masahiro Tanimori
By (author) Eriko Sato
Tuttle Publishing
Tuttle Publishing
10th April 2012
United States
General
Non Fiction
495.682421
Paperback
416
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
624g
Essential Japanese Grammar is an indispensable study guide for students of theJapanese language at all levels.Long the standard in Japanese language education, it provides clear, jargon-freeexplanations of how Japanese grammar works and offers hundreds of examplesentences. It is an essential handbook for self-study or for the classroom andshould be a valued resource for years to come. A strong foundation in grammar isvital to those wishing to learn Japanese as a whole.
"The book is very useful in conjunction with Japanese language textbooks and if you want to better understand the construction of the sentences and the word order Another thing I liked about this book is that its content is arranged in alphabetical order which makes it easy to find what you are looking for." --Japan Reference blog
"This is a very useful and informative book that is indeed essential for any serious student of Japanese" --8 Asians blog
Masahiro Tanimori is Associate Professor of Japanese education at Tottori University in Japan. He is the author of Handbook of Japanese Grammar (Tuttle, 1994) and vice editor of New Edition of General Japanese (Xinbian Zonghe Riyu, China Astronautic Publishing House, 2011), and is a member of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language. He lives in Awajo, Japan.
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, and My First Japanese Kanji Book.