Hi,
Since I've learnt more then 3000 Hanzi, I started to learn to read Japanese (not speaking it and not having any listening comprehension)
I am aware of the fact that Japanese use a lot of grammatical endings which someone can't understand without any grammatical knowledge of Japanese.
Therefore I used the "Remembering the Kana" book by Heisig
and worked through "The Oxford Japanese grammar and verbs" book by Jonathan Bunt:
http://books.google.de/books?id=NbhpQgAA...CDMQ6AEwAA
In the beginning it was really hard to understand the grammar, but after reviewing/rereading this book I am very astonished how much I understand now from Japanese written material.
I started now to read authentic Japanese material using this annotation web page:
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Reader.do
Do you have similar experiences in "learning" Japanese this way?
Or experiences having first started to learn Chinese and then Japanese?
Since I've learnt more then 3000 Hanzi, I started to learn to read Japanese (not speaking it and not having any listening comprehension)
I am aware of the fact that Japanese use a lot of grammatical endings which someone can't understand without any grammatical knowledge of Japanese.
Therefore I used the "Remembering the Kana" book by Heisig
and worked through "The Oxford Japanese grammar and verbs" book by Jonathan Bunt:
http://books.google.de/books?id=NbhpQgAA...CDMQ6AEwAA
In the beginning it was really hard to understand the grammar, but after reviewing/rereading this book I am very astonished how much I understand now from Japanese written material.
I started now to read authentic Japanese material using this annotation web page:
http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Reader.do
Do you have similar experiences in "learning" Japanese this way?
Or experiences having first started to learn Chinese and then Japanese?