Japanese Grammar Guide

@Arigatou Gozaimasu ;)

@Arigatou Gozaimasu ;) This

This is not "one of the best online resources for Japanese grammar", this is THE VERY VERY BEST resource for Japanese grammar. by far! ;)

what do you add on the end of

what do you add on the end of an adjectiv to add in another one into the same sentence

What a useful resource! My

What a useful resource!
My boyfriend has been learning Japanese through audio tapes for awhile and has grasped a great deal of phrases and words that can help with communication. I myself am a very visual person, and have enjoyed learning European languages, so being able to understand grammatical structure is a much more constructive way for me to learn!
Coupling this alongside Rosetta Stone, Genki and trying to absorb as much of the Kana are possible I feel that I am getting somewhere! =)
Absolutely love writing things out, the Kanji are wicked fun.

I find it really sad that others here feel the need to put anime fans down; yes, that is just one aspect of Japanese popular culture, but having enough love for something to motivate you to really get into a language is a wonderful thing. The spirit of anime is so different to that of American cartoons, that surely must say something important about the values in their society. After all, anime is progression on Japanese art, and takes many influences from their culture, and as long as you realise that there is more to Japan than just that, and can find interest in other things aside from it, as much of a fondness for as many things with ignite your passion to learn. (Not to mention, it'd save me a lot of time if I could get on with my life whilst having Naruto on in the background and be able to understand it without subs...rubbish subs at that!)

Amazing stuff!
Thanks so much for this invaluable resource!

I have been looking through

I have been looking through Japanese Lessons online and this is by far the best! Thank you for those who made this site possible

Hi, i just thought i'd post

Hi, i just thought i'd post and let you know your blogs layout is really messed up on the K-Melon browser. Anyhow keep up the good work.

This is just amazing, thank

This is just amazing, thank you a lot!

PS: The 'Show all answers' buttons don't work at all here under firefox.

I first found this site when

I first found this site when it was a site, not a blog, and it had a downloadable zipfile of the material. Is there any equivalent now? Didn't see one.

Tae kim-san, I was wondering

Tae kim-san, I was wondering if you could e-mail me some things about Japanese as I can't always check out your site. Could you please tell me if there is an easy way to remember how, and in what way, to use the 'markers' Ni, Ga, O, Wa, and the like. I ask this because they are really the only things I'm having trouble with, I would also like to practice my Japanese with someone so that I can at least get better at reading and writing it as I have no one to speak with.
Please contact me via e-mail, my adress is Riku@hushmail.com.
Doumo arigatou, Sensei! (This computer does not support the ability to read the japanese characters)
And yet again, please contact me if you can spare the time.

Hey, I live in Japan and I

Hey,

I live in Japan and I had hard time to learn cuz no time because of work...
but at least on your website I can do one page a day on a break and try to practice on the evening
I think it's a great guide as all the other book (including Minna no nihongo) bored me to death
(and don't wanna pay for online lessons too)

I think your approach is very pragmatical and we can use sentences very quickly.
I feel I make a lot of progress thanks to your guide.

So the gaijin says "thank you" again and if you make a similar guide for korean, I would be interested too :)

Umm... hi. I'd just like to

Umm... hi. I'd just like to ask for a few tips on using this guide. I'm not very clear with the instructions but everyone's reviews say that it's a great resources so I really want to know how to get the best out of this. *is a grammar failure*
Thanks~

I love this guide, I'm so

I love this guide, I'm so happy I found it because it helps me a whole bunch.

I'm hoping to successfully learn Japanese with this guide and many others so that I can one day move to Japan. I see other people wanting to learn because of anime, but I think if you learn for the culture and the ways of the Japanese, then anime can come in.

Good luck to you all ~!!

Hello! It's a great website

Hello! It's a great website for japanese grammar!

But I can't find a specific one:

You use it like this:

だんだん/しだいに(increasing) > verb-てform and きます/いきます。
or you can put どんどん　before the verb-てform.

ex:
だんだん　きおんが　あがって　きました。　これからも　あがって　いくでしょう。

I don't really understand the translation of the grammar, how to use it.
Can anybody help me?

what about the word NADO?

what about the word NADO? it's used extensively yet i dont see it in the guide.

thanks

i was so amaze to see this

i was so amaze to see this

esse guia é otimo.. valeu

esse guia é otimo.. valeu sr.tae kim....eus estudo japonês a 2 anos e o seu guia esta sendo muito util no meu aprendizado....

this guide is very nice.. thanks mr. kim i study japanese..2 years studying japanese,, and yours guide have been helpful in my studies...

I've seen Hart-Jorden's

I've seen Hart-Jorden's lessons and, I'm sorry to say, they are abysmal. Her lesson indexing is so byzantine and confounding, it takes the student months to learn how to use her text even before learning any language, spoken or written, not to mention any introduction to grammar. Enormous amounts of pedagogy are required, which inadvertently creates an immersion environment. Japanese children learn the language more effectively in this type of environment but in a completely different, more natural and more retentive way. There are no shortcuts from immersion, and the opacity of Jorden's lessons merely distracts. She also used the worst romaji system, the one furthest from phonetic pronunciation of all, giving the student wholly unrecognizable phonemes; in a syllabary language, this is a fundamental flaw. Her text for the written language is better, but only because she was the writer who included more of the various writing and textual styles one would encounter. Why did she write as elaborate a text for the written language, dispensing with katakana and hiragana quickly as other texts do, and then spend the rest of the volume on kanji? Because she realized, despite her method, that the language is written in kanji; if a student studies the language to any proficiency in romaji, it will be necessary to almost totally relearn the language in order to be functional to any degree in its practice. Illiteracy in any language is determined by inability to read or write, not by speech. Toddlers babble in every language in the world. Her method is a laborious path to an abjectly unsophisticated juvenile level, without the vocabulary, comprehension, or compositional facility that reading and writing can only provide. There is no enjoyment in her curriculum that should accompany the exploration of the language, to engage the student and help motivate and retain the subject matter. In my opinion, her spoken language method is a prescription for failure, her superficially impressive resume notwithstanding.