Hello,

Does completing Tae Kim's grammar teach you enough grammar to understand video games, especially RPG (as long as you also know the vocabulary)? I must admit I learn Japanese in that sole purpose.

Thank you!

No it's not enough, there is still tons of stuff not covered there. You might want to look at the 完全1級 and 2級　grammar books (there are some decks somewhere) and of course you need a lot of practice if you want to be able to understand all that stuff fluently

Thank you Should I go directly to Kanzen or can I first finish Tae Kim?

By the way those books are completely in Japanese, aren't they? A bit hard for a beginner.

I honestly think the grammar Tae Kim covers is enough for you to understand the gist of whats going on in most sentences, though you might miss out on some of the nuance. Vocab is going to be the much larger hurdle to understanding most video games. I wouldn't bother learning additional grammar until you feel like you need it.

Kanken Wrote:Thank you Should I go directly to Kanzen or can I first finish Tae Kim?

By the way those books are completely in Japanese, aren't they? A bit hard for a beginner.

yeah if you are a beginner than just finish TaeKim and then get up to at least 5-10k vocab and practice reading. Do the Kanzen after that.

OK!

As far as vocabulary is concerned I search new words using this site: http://hyouta.com/vesperia/
I learn 20 words a day except on Saturday and Sunday (I'm currently at 720) and that's cool because I learn useful vocabulary (in my case). No textbook will teach me how to say "swing a sword" or " knight", but this site did :p (but it won't teach me "car" for example)

I'm going to learn all the vocabulary from Tales of Vesperia, and that's a good thing because it's my favorite game ever.

For grammar I bought the three A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar books if I need deeper information.

Wow, those are some pretty dedicated players to make that site.

(Kind of a coincidence; I'm nearing platinum on PS3 vesperia. Just 4 trophies left...)

Hehe good luck on that Platinum! I got the plat for all nine Tales released on Vita/PS3 and Vesperia was the most challenging with Symphonia.

The site is awesome to help me mining vocabulary and sentences. Right now I'm working on the skits and I know the vocabulary of the first 47 ones :p

I started watching anime with Japanese subtitles before I finished the equivalent of Tae Kim (Genki 1+2) looking up words and grammar points on the fly.

I can't say it wasn't pretty tough at first, but it was certainly possible. By the time I got to reading an intermediate grammar book, I found that approximately 75% of it was revision rather than learning, because I had already encountered it and understood it. It did help to clarify a few points, but they stuck better and made more sense because I already knew pretty much what was going on (a bit like reading the manual after playing the game for a bit).

Tae Kim was one of my favorite references for looking up grammar on the fly, by the way.