A Guide to Japanese Grammar: A Japanese approach to learning Japanese grammar

I've been referring back to Tae Kim's website for more than 15 years so I finally decided to buy the book. Don't be fooled by the ugly cover, this is one of the best Japanese grammar guides out there. It will take you from the absolute basics to more advanced grammar, building up step by step. The explanations are all very clear and help to make sense of why things work the way they do. I only wish the design and print quality was a bit better.

i picked this up closer to when I started learning Japanese and it's explanations of the grammar were very understandable, also gives you example sentences so you know how to use them, supplementary vocabulary also.

Very well-written and easy to use. Also incorporates kanji and vocabulary into each module which is excellent. This book is a must-have!

Good quality in terms of content and print, slight gripe in that there are printed hyperlinks which I thought to be an odd formatting choice. Perhaps a condense of the contents of the aforementioned hyperlinks would’ve been a better choice? Aside from that, it’s incredibly well written and easy to understand.

This book teaches you Japanese by - well - teaching you Japanese! Not by teaching you in the "normal" way of grammar and vocabulary so you can translate English into Japanese, but by explaining how Japanese works, and how sentences are constructed. The possibly frightening thing for beginners is that the writing system is introduced and used in full - Hiragana (for Japanese words), Katakana (for words of foreign origin) and Kanji (the characters of Chinese origin which explain the meaning and origin of all vocabulary) too, right from the beginning. As someone who learnt Japanese from a combination of books, university (UK) and immersion in the language, and has never properly got on top of Kanji, this book is a wonderful tool to make life easier for anyone wanting to really know and understand Japanese. Thoroughly recommended! Noel Howlett (Currently teaching Beginners Japanese with U3A)

Reading some of the reviews on this book, I was worried that it would end up being a cheap & nasty book. But instead, even though this book is based on the author's website, this book is laid out nicely to suit a printed book, instead of just being a screenprint/dump of the website. Further, the contents are useful & cover a lot of ground, so if you're a beginner/intermediate Japanese speaker like me, I strongly recommend this book. Its approach to teach you proper Japanese is interesting and logical, and I feel that its use of hiragana & katakana & kanji from the beginning is a very good way to get a person used to the trickier parts of the language right away.

a MUST HAVE for japanese learners, nothing else compares to it, honestly. tae kims not afraid to say the difficult stuff, and make japanese a bit more diffucult so that you get a better understanding of it in the long run. just remember the website resource is exacly the same thing if your a bit short for cash.

Great book, covers all the grammar in a clear simple way without all the jargon. Would recommend for anyone learning Japanese wether self taught or taking classes.

Very well made. It's got all you need to tackle this language right from the beginning.

Great guide, extensive. I wouldn't recommend to a new learner until you have cemented a solid foundational understanding as it skims over the basic grammar.

If you're learning Japanese, this is a mist-have book for you. It has almost every grammar rule. Every rule has example sentences so that you can understand with the context. While some are difficult to understand, it generally is very very useful.

Très bon livre pour apprendre le japonais en allant droit au but. Beaucoup de livres de ce type sont généralement très académiques et enseignent un Japonais archaïque que vous n'utiliserez jamais lors de vos discussions avec des locuteurs natifs. Ou alors ils, vous forcent à mémoriser par cœur tout un tas de règles que vous aurez aussitôt oublié une fois le cours terminé. Avec le livre de Tae Kim, je n'ai pas eu cette impression, la mise en page est certes spartiates, mais le contenu est de qualité et j'apprécie que l'auteur s'efforce d'expliquer la grammaire japonaise de la manière la plus simple et efficace possible. Si vous voulez non seulement apprendre, mais aussi comprendre la logique derrière la langue japonaise, ce livre devrait vous être utile

Primeiro, não li o livro todo ainda. É uma gramática, uso mais para consultas (diárias já que sou ainda aprendiz) Sobre o livro em si, eu digo que vale a pena, é um ótimo livro de consulta ou até mesmo para aprender a gramática como livro principal, tem sim uma versão gratuita, mas é bem mais prático para quem tem um Kindle tê-lo sempre em mãos como um livro de consulta (além de apoiar o trabalho do autor). Contudo, algumas palavras estão muito claras para ler no Kindle... quase sempre eu preciso ajeitar um pouco a luminosidade para algo mais do que o meu normal para ver algumas coisas escritas, nada muito incômodo, mas ainda assim, um incômodo que quebra a concentração da leitura. Ele não vai lhe ensinar nada mais do que gramática, mas a gramática japonesa é cheia de nuanças que este livro aborda muito bem. Enfim, recomendando, preço bom e bom conteúdo.