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Today I posted numerous comments (unfortunately the thread started yesterday so mostly it's gone cold) regarding Japanese grammar. It was fun - I haven't written much about Japanese grammar in a while - like visiting an old friend you haven't seen in ages. If you have any interest in learning Japanese, check my comment history for the posts I put up on November 14, 2006 in the thread regarding opening the PS3.
    I'm always up for questions, too.

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  • You may be interested in this fellow slashdotter. [slashdot.org]
  • I was one of the participants in the discussion, and I'd like to thank you for your explanations of Japanese grammar. Things make a little more sense now.

    For the record, if you make a number of posts, the links to your old ones will fall off for non-subscribers. Here's a link to the parent comment which started the discussion.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=206338&cid=168 25672 [slashdot.org]
    • I'm glad you enjoyed our discussion. It felt good to talk about Japanese. I'm in Law school now and don't get much time to think about things I feel I know well. All that Japanese-related talk was a very welcome diversion from Torts and Contracts.

      Shoot me a message anytime. I'll keep on the lookout for anything Japanese-related on /. as well, hopefully something will come up again soon.

      Japanese isn't as hard as it's made out to be - the problem is that the textbooks are mostly bad and the traditional me
      • I was going to ask if you have any suggestions for where to take a course or what book to buy, but I figured I should check out your website and that book you mentioned that you edited. Are there any other resources you might suggest?
        • I've got a bias, of course, and additionally, I tend to be critical of Japanese instruction in general. I recommend the book I edited, 'Step Up Nihongo' ("SUN") (or alternatively the online version 'eSUN'), or 'Japanese: the Spoken Language' ("JSL") by Eleanor H Jorden. Jorden's book series (three volumes) is probably the most complete, precise Japanese language textbook ever written (and ever likely to be written). This has both good and bad points. In many places it's like reading a mathematics textbo

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