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japanese books?

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  • 15-01-2008 5:31pm
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    i've been looking in various bookshops for material on teaching oneself japanese. there's plenty of phrasebooks, etc. but what i really want is a good grammar book. i'm fine at picking up words myself, its just structuring sentences around them that i need help with. can anyone recommend a good book for this?
    also, which japanese[kanji]/english dictionaries would be the best?


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    Dont be at yourself
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    The best online dictionary is called Jim Breen's WWWJDIC at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

    As for books, I'd recommend the Minna no Nihongo series. A good mixture of vocabulary, grammar and practice exercises.

    If you're getting a dictionary or a textbook, I'd strongly recommend one that used hiragana/katakana/kanji over romaji. You'll learn a lot quicker using the Japanese alphabets.


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    FruitLover
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    I quite liked the Japanese for Busy People series, particularly as you can get kana versions of them.


    OT: Why do you have 'baka gaijin' in your sig? Do you think it's cool? I guarantee you wouldn't have that there if you had lived in Japan for any length of time. It's like a black guy having 'dumb n1gger' or something in his sig.


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