Re: Please recommend books for Intermediate+ Japanese

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:19:46 -0400, Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:

Thanks for the recommendation. I almost entirely rely on furigana...
However I still feel
that it would help to have an advanced grammar text book to help
reinforce new material.

No doubt, but it's time to learn to read. I'm a big fan of learning to
write by hand as well, but I won't go into that now. Your next step is
to take all that knowledge from 3 volumes of JFBP, arm yourself with a
few references (I'm a big fan of "A Basic Dictionary of Japanese
Grammar", "An Intermediate Dictionary of Japanese Grammar", "All About
Particles", and "Japanese Verbs at a Glance"), and start reading stuff
in real live form until it starts to make sense. Ditch the furigana ...
it's a useful crutch for starting out, but it is still a crutch.

Manga is a very good resource. I would recommend the deluxe edition of
Rurouni Kenshin - a light sword-fighting series that takes place a few
years after the Meiji restoration. The deluxe edition is a little larger
than the regular edition and has far superior print quality - good for a
language learner. The visual nature of the manga helps one to follow the
story which is neither frivolous nor too serious. There's a wealth of
vocabulary and structures from everyday conversation to historical and
political terms:

http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/3156709/s/

Phil Yff
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