All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words

Satisfied with Kindle format, and good stuff in book.

nice book

I’ve just started to learn Japanese with an app that‘s essentially drilling and no grammar. This book is proving to be a very useful companion to the app, with accessible descriptions of these ‘exotic’ grammatical elements that are the Japanese particles.

Adoro esses livros de referência da Kodansha. Fácil de entender, com bons exemplos...

Es muy práctico para entender de mejor manera el funcionamiento de las partículas, los ejemplos son simples y fáciles de comprender. El libro viene en inglés por si alguien pregunta, además tiene los ejemplos en japonés con Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana y Romaji (que este último es muy útil en caso que no recuerdes bien la lectura de los Kanji).

There isn't a thing about this book I don't like. It's set out exactly how I would want it to be; with easy look up directory and good example sentences that aren't painfully dumbed down or too short. If you're an absolute beginner this will probably be slightly daunting however with the translations I have picked up additional vocabulary from this too. The size of the book itself is a bonus it's not miniscule like some travel dictionaries but just the right size for putting in you bag or back pocket.

There is many many explanations in this book for each grammar use of the particles. The only problem is even though they explain it thoroughly, the overall explanations can be very confusing as it uses a lot of language lingo, and even after reading the explanation it still doesn't really help unless you know the explanation type your looking for.