Essential Japanese Grammar : Write and Speak Japanese Like a Native!

Essential Japanese Grammar : Write and Speak Japanese Like a Native!
ISBN: 9784805311172
Publication Date: 1 October 2012

Essential Japanese Grammar is an indispensable study guide for students of the Japanese language at all levels. Long the standard in Japanese language education, it provides clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese grammar works and offers hundreds of example sentences. It is an essential handbook for self-study or for the classroom and should be a valued resource for years to come. A strong foundation in grammar is vital to those wishing to learn Japanese as a whole.

About the Author

Masahiro Tanimori is associate professor of Japanese education at Tottori University in Japan. He is the author of "Handbook of Japanese Grammar" (Tuttle, 1994) and vice editor of "New Edition of General Japanese (Xinbian Zonghe Riyu," China Astronautic Publishing House, 2011), and is a member of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language. He lives in Awajo, Japan.

Eriko Sato is lecturer of Japanese and Japanese linguistics and the director of the Pre-College Japanese Program and the Teacher Certification Program for Japanese at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She authored "Japanese for Dummies" (Wiley, 2002), "Contemporary Japanese: A Textbook for College Students" (Tuttle, 2005), and "Japanese Demystified" (McGraw Hill, 2008) and co-authored "My First Japanese Kanji Book" (Tuttle, 2009). She lives in Stony Brook, New York.