Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication: A Self-Study Course and Reference

Very useful book for self study

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Good book for beginners, provides a nice series of situations where one can learn how to make sentences and express out thoughts in japanese

Estou estudando japonês e estou com várias dúvidas. Depois de ler vários comentários sobre o livro, decidi comprá-lo. À princípio, admito que fiquei decepcionado com as dimensões do livro - cheque as dimensões 18 x 2,5 x 13 cm, coisa de americano, hehehehe... Estamos acostumados com livros no tamanho de folha A4. Mas agora que estou usando, vejo que o conteúdo extrapola as dimensões e realmente valeu a pena.Para quem está com muitas dúvidas, como eu, tem muitos padrões de frases, principalmente sobre o uso adequado de partículas. No final do livro, tem os apêndices com numerais, contadores, adjetivos (com as formas, polida e simples, por exemplo) e com verbos (não todos) regulares e irregulares conjugados.Uma característica que achei ótima para meu aprendizado, é que tem uma mini prática - logo depois das explicações, com duas, três ou quatro frases (depende do assunto) que você já pode praticar. São do tipo "diga o seguinte em japonês", aí você monta a sua frase, e já corrige a seguir, pois logo abaixo estão as respostas. E, geralmente, as principais palavras que você usa nas frases estão logo acima, tornando muito fácil o aprendizado.A única desvantagem é para quem não entende nada de inglês, pois o livro é todo em inglês (mas acredito que isso não seja problema para a maioria que está estudando japonês).Eu realmente gostei e recomendo. Valeu o investimento.

Simplified Japanese at your fingertips. Best for beginners.

This book is designed for upper-beginner learners of Japanese. I say this because if you've studied Genki 1, you'll pretty much know how to do everything in this book. However, even if you have studied Genki 1, this is a great book to use for additional practice and will teach you more sentence structures then Genki 1.The examples are written in natural Japanese (Kanji + hiragana/katakana) and then written again in romanji. This means you don't need to know how to read Japanese to use this book. However, if you're a serious learner of Japanese, I'd highly highly recommend learning to read being the first thing you do. Losing the crutch of romanji is one of the best things you can do the first day you start learning. Learn Hiragana and Katakana first. Kanji is takes longer to learn but it's not hard, just tedious. The book does not provide furigana (kana above the kanji), but this is not needed because if you know how to read Japanese, it's extremely easy to spot the reading of the kanji in the romanji text.This book has one main goal in mind. That goal is to teach you tons of different sentence structures which is essential to know in pretty much every language. If you're a upper beginner, you most likely will not know all the vocab, but you will learn how to use most vocab once you've learn them. After mastering this book, you'll be able to express yourself in various different ways and structures.This book would work best if you're already an upper-beginner with a decent amount of vocabulary in your grasp. The best way to practice would be to study each section, then try to make as many sentences with the structures you've learn using the vocab you already know. Since this book does start off slow, I'd recommend it to a beginner of any level. Also to any lower intermediates who want to refreshen up on their sentence structures.

(Please, bear with my English, I am not a native speaker) Being really interested in learning Japanese, being very serious about it, but having almost no spare time to study, I became a kind of specialist of the resources you can use in a metro. And I may say that this book is one of the most valuable investment I have made so far. It will of course depend on your learning style, but being a teacher myself, I can't find a lot of reasons for which this book wouldn't help you to improve your Japanese. It basically works like a sentence structures dictionary that you can read from the first to the last page (using it a little bit like a textbook) or you can look up in whenever you need to use, learn or review a pattern. As usual with Kodansha, no kana, no furigana (but the sentence in Japanese, with its transcription in romaji and the translation). It is almost a signature and I really share the incomprehension of the vast majority of the Japanese learners and teachers community who keeps complaining about that again and again with no sign of a change from the publisher.Aside this inconvenience, it is a very good and useful book in my humble opinon.