Essential Japanese Grammar: A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Usage: Write & Speak Japanese like a Native! A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Usage (Essential Grammar Series) - Softcover

Masahiro Tanimori; Eriko Sato

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4805311177 ISBN 13: 9784805311172

Publisher: Tuttle Shokai Inc, 2012

Synopsis

An indispensable reference for students of Japanese at all levels, as well as anyone seeking to brush up on the language. Providing clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese grammar works and offering hundreds of example sentences, it is an essential handbook for self-study or for the classroom and should be a valued resource for years to come. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 gives a comprehensive overview of Japanese grammar, including the parts of speech, sentence word order, verbs, polite language (keigo), counters, and other facets of everyday language. Part 2 is a dictionary of usage, and explains and illustrates the correct uses of hundreds of Japanese suffixes, prefixes, grammatical words, and phrases. The two parts are closely coordinated through cross-referencing. Each entry includes example sentences given in both Japanese orthography (kana/kanji) and romanized form, with the English equivalents. The introduction to the grammar overview summarises the fundamental differences between the English and Japanese grammar. Appendices offer extensive words lists for adjectival nouns, nouns formed from verbs, counters, and other categories.

About this title

About the Author

Masahiro Tanimori is associate professor of Japanese education at Tottori University in Japan. He is the author of Handbook of Japanese Grammar (Tuttle, 1994) and vice editor of New Edition of General Japanese (Xinbian Zonghe riyu, China Astronautic Publishing House, 2011), and is a member of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language. He lives in Awajo, Japan.

Eriko Sato is lecturer of Japanese and Japanese linguistics and the director of the Pre-College Japanese Program and the Teacher Certification Program for Japanese at the State University of New York at Stony brook. She authored Japanese for Dummies (Wiley, 2002), Contemporary Japanese: A Textbook for College Students (Tuttle, 2005), and Japanese Demystified (McGraw Hill, 2008) and co-authored My First Japanese Kanji book (Tuttle, 2009). She lives in Stony brook, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Shokai Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4805311177
• ISBN 13: 9784805311172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416