One of the first books I started learning japanese with. It is in my opinion the most complete book on verbs you can get. There are many, many books on verbs, but this one introduces a lot of verb conjugations that you can't find in any other books. I use this one alongside of All About Particles : A Handbook of Japanese Function Words . Both books are excellent reference. I actually have learned more from these, than grammar books. As this one doesn't explain grammar, you better start with a basic grammar book like Japanese for Busy People I: Kana Version includes CD (Japanese for Busy People Series) (Bk. 1) if you're a beginner. Is the one I used at first :)

Japanese Verbs, saying what you mean, doesn't have practice exercises, though, but you can make your own senteces to make the examples stick. The explanations are very clear and you get many examples. At the end of every chapter, there is a list of the words used in the examples, so you expand vocabulary. Use this book together with other favorite books of japanese as a suplement.

Hope my review can help you make up you mind to buy! This book is excellent tool for learning japanese.

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George Narita

Five Stars

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Great Product

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Sarah B. Thomas

Great for anime fans who want to go deeper!

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 24 agosto 2011

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I've been studying Japanese for a few months, and I'm approaching it through anime since I am an anime fan and there are few places in my rural town where I can find native Japanese speakers to listen to. This book has been invaluable in helping me decode the verbs. When I hear a verb form I don't know yet, I reach for this book and scan the table of contents for the ending I heard. Then, knowing which base and which ending and what the ending means, I can easily figure out the dictionary form of the verb and look it up. (Anybody watching anime with me will get frustrated at my constantly pausing it to look things up in a dictionary, LOL!) As a result of using this book in this way, it became easy for me to complete Japanese for Busy People, volume 1, because I'd already learned and used the verb forms.

The book would be even more useful if it had an index where you could look up the English verb form you want to use and find Japanese approximations to it. And I would have loved for it to have exercises where I could check my answers in the back of the book.

Yes, everything in this book is available for free on the author's website (including a similar bunch of lessons on adjectives, which I hope he'll also make into a book). But all the ways to fit the internet into your backpack cost much more than this book, plus most of the places I can catch a few study moments (like when I take my kids to the park) don't have wi-fi. And if you find yourself enjoying the website, why not take the opportunity to put a few dollars in the author's pocket?

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