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All About Particles (Kodansha Book)

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The full title of this book is "All About Particles - A Handbook of Japanese Function Words"

http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Particle...960&sr=8-1

It lists about 70 Japanese particles detailing about 200 functional uses. Each functional use gives two sample sentences on average. That means you have about 640 sample sentences covering you basic Japanese particle needs.

The particles in the book seem organized by common use. The particle is broken down into its variant usage, for most that means 2 though some like "ga" can be 20 variant uses. Each sample sentence comes in Kanji, Romaji and one and sometimes two English translations (if there's a need for a direct translation and a better English wording sentence).

Although I'm not able to coordinate a sentence mining effort (questionable access to Google Groups for the next month), I think this is the perfect choice for the next project. In fact, I think if you're doing the sentence method this is a great first book to start off.
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