The7thSamurai
Master of the Universe
- 4 Feb 2005
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I've been using the beginner version of this book for the past 18 months or so, and I guess I understand about 70% of what's in it, so today I decided to buy the intermediate version, and all I can say is WOW! This book is so indepth and has all sorts of useful information such as:
- details on Japanese story telling style (tense switching)
- how to naturally switch styles (casual vs formal styles)
- newspaper Japanese, including how headlines are created, abbreviations for countries and verbs, words that are often dropped from the main newspaper article
- conversation strategies (how to naturally circumlocute, different filler words to use)
- tips of speaking indirectly (a very important part of Japanese communication)
- how to better analyse sentences to understand the semantics
All that is in the first 77 pages, and there are over 700 pages all up.
The main body is, of course, grammatical terms with detailed explanations.
The last part looks at how katakana words are created, how to better understand compound verbs (two verbs in one), as well as a comprehensive listing of counters.
This book is so detailed it'll probably take about three years or so to properly digest it all.
For some reason they call it "intermediate", yet there's no advanced guide.
Anyway, for anyone who's at an upper beginner/lower intermediate level I highly recommend it.
- details on Japanese story telling style (tense switching)
- how to naturally switch styles (casual vs formal styles)
- newspaper Japanese, including how headlines are created, abbreviations for countries and verbs, words that are often dropped from the main newspaper article
- conversation strategies (how to naturally circumlocute, different filler words to use)
- tips of speaking indirectly (a very important part of Japanese communication)
- how to better analyse sentences to understand the semantics
All that is in the first 77 pages, and there are over 700 pages all up.
The main body is, of course, grammatical terms with detailed explanations.
The last part looks at how katakana words are created, how to better understand compound verbs (two verbs in one), as well as a comprehensive listing of counters.
This book is so detailed it'll probably take about three years or so to properly digest it all.
For some reason they call it "intermediate", yet there's no advanced guide.
Anyway, for anyone who's at an upper beginner/lower intermediate level I highly recommend it.