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Taeko Kamiya graduated from Doshisha Women's College in Kyoto and holds master's degrees in education and linguistics. She has taught Japanese for 25 years at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.
I am learning a lot from his workbook. I really like the workbook style. After every couple pages or so, there are 10-20 sentences in which you fill in the correct particle. I had already read almost all of Naoko Chino's book "How to Tell the Difference Between Japanese Particles," but I am still learning a lot from this workbook. I would even go further and say that I have learned more from Kamiya's workbook than from Chino's book. The particles in this workbook are presented/grouped in a way that makes them logical and helps you make sense of the rules behind their use. Also, you have so many opportunities to practice using the particles so it really helps you to learn them.
One advantage of this book over the Chino book is that with this book, the usage of particles that you learned in previous lessons are used in future problems so it helps you not forget what you learned in prior lessons. This book is really well done.
I would recommend it. I am a high beginner or low intermediate. I think that stage is the perfect time to use this book or the Chino book I mentioned. All the example and problem/practice sentences in this book are given in English and romaji and kana/kanji.
There are a couple of typos in this book but none of them seem to be in the answer key. Instead, they are minor misspellings of words. For example, in one place, 'takusan' (a lot) is written as 'takusen.' Chino's book has much worse mistakes because some of them are in the answer key.
Overall, I think you can learn a lot from both books, but if you plan to buy only one, I strongly recommend Kamiya's book (this one) over Chino's book (which I have also reviewed if you would like to read that review by me, too). But I don't think it is a bad idea to work through both books.
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It is a no-nonsense workbook ideal for anybody taking beginning Japanese. It divides the particle usage into different topics, making it easy or users to study. I use this for my Japanese class and it is helping me tremendously.
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This is the workbook we use in my Japanese class. This has been the best one we have used (we have tried four others! ). No where else is all this info so organized and well-presented!
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A good exercise book for beginner/intermediate level. However, some of the sentences are not very accurate (according to my Japanese wife). But all in all, a good book to have together with other reference books.
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I recieved this workbook a few hours ago, and did a cross comparison on university notes. It's very useful, and practically explains all particle usages depending on context. This is extremely helpfull especially if you are studying for the JLPT in N5 or N4 levels. I recommend this workbook to anyone that has a sincere interest studying Japanese, it is very useful as a reference and as a guide to discover how ideas are communicated.
Fast delivery, very detailed. Many examples given for every particle and answers in the book helps too. I'm very happy with this buy and the book itself was in great condition. Definitely recommend.
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