![]() The following will result in post removal: Trolling, immature, or hostile behavior will result in a warning or ban. No requests for or links to copyrighted content. Remember that answers you receive are never guaranteed to be 100% correct. Do not guess or attempt to answer questions beyond your own knowledge. Use furigana if you think they won't understand your kanji usage. Consider the OP's skill level when answering a question. State your question clearly in your post title. Not doing so falls under 'Low effort' (see rule 7). Check to see if your question has been addressed before posting by searching or reading the wiki. Rules 1 If you are new to learning Japanese, read the Starter's Guide. Welcome to /r/LearnJapanese, the hub on Reddit for learners of the Japanese Language. Interested in moving to Japan? Head over and make a post at /r/movingtojapan. I’m sure there’s more benefits, and some cons, but for my purposes, the Handbook meets my needs in a smaller form factor.New to Japanese? New to the sub? Read the Wiki! ![]() There’s a pretty slick reverse-index in the back of Handbook that allows you to lookup grammar terms starting with the final kana and going backwards, which can sometimes be easier if you aren’t positive where the grammar term starts from precisely.Handbook explains the grammar function(s) in less words (which I usually find to be adequate).Handbook provides more example sentences per grammar term.I believe Handbook goes out of its way to always index everything such that it includes the preceding kana as part of the grammar structure (such as てもいい and て来る). In DoJG, some terms you find under て such as てもいい whereas many others, such as て来る, you’d find under 来る. I don’t need to start with the appendix in the back of the Advanced volume, then realize my grammar term is spread across potentially multiple volumes, after which I need to open multiple volumes to gain complete insight on usage. Single volume coverage of all grammar terms reduces my time to resolution.The primary reasons I always grab the Handbook as my first choice are: As you get into N2, you may need to worry about the finer points I gave later on. Usually, just the first 4 points should be enough. If you go through all these points, it should be rare for you not to be able to disambiguate things. If these 4 points aren’t enough to disambiguate everything, then sometimes it can get more into the specifics of the point itself:Ī) Can it be used on yourself, or is it usually used to describe others?ĭ) Used with spontaneous or continuous verbs?Į) Used predominantly in very specific contexts/fixed expressions? Is it used in writing or in speech or can it be both?.Grammatical form: how does it attach, what can it attach to? (E.g.: stem, plain form, past form, etc.).In my experience, you can look at several factors: But once I do this, if any of the similar points seem identical to me, I look up the Dictionary of Japanese Grammar, reddit, BunPro, and a few other sources if needed until I am pretty sure I can disambiguate the two. ![]() Just doing this should give you good results. Then, and this is the most important part, I think about any and all grammar points that I could use to express the same idea. The way I’ve done it is to only add in grammar points that I have solid context for, that I can recall a scene of in something I’ve watched, or that I’m somehow very very familiar with. Without context, it’s almost impossible to distinguish some vocabulary. I’m just beginning Bunpro, so it will be a great way to review them over time using the SRS instead of understand everything during the kanzen quizz, and forgetting it a few weeks after.įor Vocabulary synonym, I just put some Jisho sentences with context on my Anki deck. We review confusing grammar points simultaneously, they explain the difference and then … It’s quizz time (+ sometimes depression). It’s a jlpt prep-books with great explanations. What helped me a lot is to reinforce my knowledge with the Kanzen Master series (especially the Grammar book). Most of the time, the explanation was enough to differentiate them (they put some example sentences and explain why xxx and xxx is better in this case) but sometimes it’s not. It’s just a personal choice ( Minna is not user friendly compared to Genki, not really great for self-study …).Īnyway ! Sometimes, it felt like “This grammar point is used when XXX, very similar to XXX grammar point”. I found Minna no Nihongo better at explaining some stuff, and overall more fun because it was mostly in Japanese (not relying too much on English), and harder, but still have the same issue. For N5 and N4 materials, I tried both Genki and Minna no Nihongo (I tried Tae Kim but felt more dense, less explanations, and less grammar points overall compared to the language learning books). ![]()
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