Essential Japanese Grammar (Dover Language Guides Essential Grammar)

This book is a comprehensive guide to mastering modern colloquial Japanese, designed for adult learners with limited objectives in studying the language.

With a focus on oral expression and understanding simple material addressed to oneself, the author has limited the book to the full idiomatic language, excluding literary language, alternate forms, and unnecessary constructions.

The book provides thorough treatments of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, demonstrative words, adverbs, verbs, negative forms, Chinese forms, courtesy and honorific forms, idiomatic constructions, word order, relationship of ideas, syntax, and more.

Emphasis has been placed on clarity of exposition to help English-speaking readers understand the language, with examples given for all constructions and both word-for-word and free translations provided.

Whether you're looking to express yourself orally with reasonable accuracy, understand simple material, or analyze and expand upon material in a phrase approach, this book is the perfect tool for achieving your goals in Japanese language learning.