Product Description

All students of Japanese, whether they have studied physics or not, know the word "particle," and they realize that particles, like English prepositions, require a special effort to master. Thus the high evaluation of the previous edition of this small handbook, which provides all the information students need in a scant 128 pages, was not surprising.

All About Particles covers 69 particles, the most common ones along with the less frequent. The particles are shown to have some 200 usages -- sufficient to keep most students hard at work for a good many years. The book can be approached as a textbook and studied religiously from beginning to end. It is as a reference book, however, that All AboutParticles shines: light enough to carry around, slim enough to fit into the corner of a shoulder bag, concise enough to take one quickly to the crux of the matter, it combines the best of several worlds and is priced to be affordable.

No wonder, then, that wherever students of Japanese congregate, there is bound to be a copy of All About Particles around. By the author of A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns and Japanese Verbs at a Glance.

Previously published in the Power Japanese series under the title All About Particles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98208 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Brandon Jirou Hayashi, The Hawaii Herald
"... nearly 11 years old, it is just as relevant now as it was then."

Synopsis
This is an easy-to-use student's reference guide to the 70 common particles used in the Japanese language. Each and every particle usage is covered and exemplified through sample sentences, and presented in English, Japanese orthography and romanized Japanese.

About the Author
Naoko Chino is a lecturer at Sophia University, Tokyo, and author of Japanese Verbs at a Glance and A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns.

Customer Reviews

Dont be scared of the title, buy it :)
This is probably not a book for the absolute beginner, but I have only been studying Japanese for 4 months and this is now one of my favourite texts. In my class we are often asked “what particle goes here?” by our teacher. 9 times out of 10 we are guessing, Ni being the most common choice :p

This was my motivation to buy this book

This book is quite compact, a little smaller than A5. I have taken to carrying this around in my bag, and pulling it out for the occasional read. It does seem a little “geeky” to be reading a book about such a specific thing when I am still really just a beginner myself, but if you can get up the courage to buy it you wont regret it

WA for example (first in the book) is explained over the course of 3 pages. Presenting 5 ways in which the particle can be used within sentences, with 2 or 3 examples for each usage. Each example is presented in kana/kanji, romanji and English. So theres little need to refer to other texts whilst trying to comprehend the examples. As such, this makes the book very easy to read and not “heavy” at all, despite the subject matter