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Thanks mbrubeck, great reference. I highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Step-Innovative-Approach-Speaking/dp/0658014900 http://www.amazo

by keyist 17y ago

Thanks mbrubeck, great reference. I highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Step-Innovative-Approach-Speaking/dp/0658014900 http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Step-Innovative-Approach-Spea... as another excellent resource. Written by an engineer for engineers, with detailed flow charts for the various conjugation rules and other aspects of the grammar. The book lists the various common sentence structures then teaches you how to expand the various fragments to construct more complex sentences. Somewhat similar to learning via a CFG and deriving a parse tree. if you want to absolutely nail your Japanese grammar, this is a solid logical way to go about it. Book's biggest drawback is that it is rather dry. You will need to complement it with a book that focuses on vocabulary, idioms, and colloquialisms so that you don't sound like a robot.

altxwally 17y ago
The best books I've read regarding learning japaenese are 'Making Sense of Japanese Grammar'. I recommend it a lot. http://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Japanese-Grammar-Paper/dp/0824825837 http://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Japanese-Grammar-Paper/dp... If it weren't for that book I would have never understood why there are so many exceptions with verbs regarding the whole intransitive and transitive thing.
rwmj 17y ago
I once got some way through writing a program which turned OCaml variants into Japanese sentences. So you'd write something along the lines of: `IsIn (`Noun "neko", `Noun "uchi") (except usually far more complex) and it would generate the Japanese sentence, working out is "neko" is animate or not and so how to translate `IsIn correctly.