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Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication: A Self-Study Course and Reference Paperback – August 3, 2012
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TAEKO KAMIYA received her BA from Doshisha Women's College and MAs from the University of San Francisco in education and from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in linguistics. A veteran language teacher, with 25 years' experience teaching Japanese, she is the author of numerous books on the Japanese language, including The Handbook of Japanese Verbs and The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs (both by Kodansha International).
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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on January 5, 2013
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This book is for someone between the absolute beginner and an intermediate student of Japanese. Your options for the sentence patterns are given in Romaji or Kanji. There are no kana only sentences, though a serious student should be trying to learn Kanji anyways, and the romaji gives you the readings fine.
Personally I use this book to put sentences into the free digital flashcard system called Anki. I don't necessarily use it for it's initial purpose, which is to figure out how to state or reply to a specific sentence pattern. I think it works great as a resource of Japanese sentences to memorize.
Personally I use this book to put sentences into the free digital flashcard system called Anki. I don't necessarily use it for it's initial purpose, which is to figure out how to state or reply to a specific sentence pattern. I think it works great as a resource of Japanese sentences to memorize.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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I have renewed my study of Japanese independently after 3 years classroom study many years ago. This time I'm focusing just on speech competency (at 67 I don't have enough years left to become literate in Japanese, and I want to be able to function in day-to-day Japan). This limits the usefulness of many self-teaching language programs, which integrate reading and writing into their approach, so I have been hopping around among various offerings, all of which emphasize different structures and vocabulary. This book has helped greatly to organize and categorize the various sentence patterns I have encountered. I am probably at intermediate level of competency at present, and I find the book suits me perfectly. I doubt it would work for someone who does not already have a background in Japanese grammar. It is written in romaji as well as Japanese, so I am able to use it without being able to read kanji and kana.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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on May 9, 2013
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This book is great for filling in the gaps left by other learning methods. I know a lot of words in Japanese, but this helps put them all together correctly.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Ashley
on April 27, 2013
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I love this book so much! It has so many sentence patterns and is just what I need to get out from the beginner stage and into the intermediate level of Japanese. This is one of the best things I could ever get to learn Japanese. It's perfect. :)
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Brett Pontarelli
on August 27, 2013
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Each section is a simple grammatical point which makes learning easy. The sample sentences are pretty good and I've been using them to build a flash card set with the full sentence in English and Japanese on each side. So far this has been going well, mostly because the entry is straight forward (open book and copy) and the study is using vocab and grammar at the same time.
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Mark
on August 23, 2014
I was going on a trip to Japan and needed to review some grammar for the trip. I had taken Japanese up to level N4 and needed to brush up a bit . I took about a month and this book thoroughly went through just about all the sentence patterns you'll see in any N4 class.
It really helped because I put many of the sentences to use and didn't sound like an illiterate gaijin (at least I hope not).
The structure is very well put together, grouping sentence patterns on functions and provided very clear examples. The little quizzes at the end of each section helped reinforce what you just learned.
It worked so well in helping me review N5/N4 Japanese I'm thinking of resuming my nihongo studies and trying the N3 test this December..
It really helped because I put many of the sentences to use and didn't sound like an illiterate gaijin (at least I hope not).
The structure is very well put together, grouping sentence patterns on functions and provided very clear examples. The little quizzes at the end of each section helped reinforce what you just learned.
It worked so well in helping me review N5/N4 Japanese I'm thinking of resuming my nihongo studies and trying the N3 test this December..
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It is obvious that the author is used to dealing with learners of Japanese and knows how to explain the grammar and give exercises. After having suffered through Nakama a&b, which seem to be written for Japanese native speakers without much knowledge of English, this is a great "go-to" volume. It is full of English language sentences, which can be translated and then checked with the text.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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on February 10, 2013
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Awesome.That's all you need to know.Probably the single most helpful book in my Japanese Learning books.After you finish this book you will have a much better grasp on the japanese language.GET IT.
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