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.

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)

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.

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.

The PDF is free. If you want a physical copy, this is a great print.

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.