Im Learning Japanese,What Would Be A Good Book To Learn It.

[Alex221]

I just want to learn enough Japanese to be able to play...say a Japanese Pokemon game (That uses mostly common and small words). I just want to know enough to learn the ropes, (I.E, what each "Character" in the "Character Set" is and how to Read/Write words and basic concepts of basic, daily used Japanese words) I want to be able to communicate in the language but be able to learn it just by experience alone after I have reached the "Kindergarden" level of reading/writing Japanese.

shoudnt you have made your own topic instead of posting here?

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

Japanese Verbs & Essentials of Grammar, Second Edition.

Japanese will take years to learn, you'll have to do more than learn just from books.

I think this is the book I have/im currently using and this is an excellent book. I don't know what edition I have *goes to confirm if the above mention book is the book he is talking about* Yep it is and its the 2nd edition. I so recommend this book. I carry with me wherever I may want to practice. Im currently trying to learn my hiragana syllables. Im hoping my college has japanese classes thought

I Want To Get That Book But At Barnes And Noble They Only Have The 3rd Edition,Which Was Released Last Month.

Why do you keep double posting >_<
I thought I recommended that book to Jin or someone else who asked about learning Japanese, I absolutely love it.

Yes, I stole the Stone XD

 

[Cyan]

I know someone who learned Japanese only with learning books and could read text books few month later. With motivation and perseverance you can do everything !
He recommended me (I still haven't bought it) this grammar book, saying grammar was very nicely explained and classified :


A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (Vol. 1)
(nihongo kihon bunpou jiten)
By seiichi makino & michio tsutsui
Editions THE JAPAN TIMES
ISBN-10 : 4-7890-0454-6
ISBN-13 : 978-4789004541

I looked at amazon, user's comments are very good.

You can see 2 scanned pages from this book here :
http://chiba.davidcochard.fr/apprendre-le-...-bibliographie/
look for "page 1, page 2"
Looking for "must" in English index gets you to these 2 pages.

Editor's preview : http://bookclub.japantimes.co.jp/pdf/0454.pdf


Vol2 exists too (which is much harder than "intermediate"):
A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
?????????, ??? (nihongo kihon bunpou jiten, chuukyuuhen)
Authors : Seiichi Makino & Michio Tsutsui
Editor : The Japan Times
ISBN : 4-7890-0775-8


As the titles says, it's only a dictionary when you are looking for grammar, not a linear learning course.

 

[elixirdream]

my advise is get the JPT level 4 (grammer, kanji) related books
i know it might be a little too advance
but thats what you should aim for

 

[Issac]

my advise is get the JPT level 4 (grammer, kanji) related books
i know it might be a little too advance
but thats what you should aim for

Don't you mean level 1? (the hardest)

Oh, And I take e-mail lessons through a man (with the female name) megumi nanasawa... I think they are good! Sure, you'll have to think a bit to understand what he means some times, but you understand his way of explaining in time.
http://island.geocities.jp/nihongogumi/
There you can see the first three lessons, which are very basic, and send your replies to him, and after a while you will get the results back corrected. (i recommend the versions using japanese characters instead of romaji).
I forgot the price, but it is very well worth it! It is a total of 40 lessons and additional review exercises. (so far I got: Lesson 1, L2, L3, L4, Review 3/4, L5, L6, Review 5/6, L7... so in this pattern: it'll be 19 review exercises along with the 40 lessons).
Oh, and when you are done with these, you can take a 20 lessons advanced course... but he doesn't want to talk about it until you are done with the first course. I highly recommend it!

 

[elixirdream]

my advise is get the JPT level 4 (grammer, kanji) related books
i know it might be a little too advance
but thats what you should aim for

Don't you mean level 1? (the hardest)

hahahahahhahahahahahahha
i have no idea how good is his japanese

so i recommended level 4

 

[Issac]

my advise is get the JPT level 4 (grammer, kanji) related books
i know it might be a little too advance
but thats what you should aim for

Don't you mean level 1? (the hardest)

hahahahahhahahahahahahha
i have no idea how good is his japanese

so i recommended level 4

Hehe, Well JLPT level 4 isn't that advanced really... (well Level 5 it is called now even!) so check out this site to see some info and study tips for it: http://www.jlptstudy.com/N5/

 

[Alex221]

my advise is get the JPT level 4 (grammer, kanji) related books
i know it might be a little too advance
but thats what you should aim for

Don't you mean level 1? (the hardest)

hahahahahhahahahahahahha
i have no idea how good is his japanese

so i recommended level 4

im gonna get level 4 books

 

[Alex221]

arigatou godzaimas for all the books suggestions,sayonara