A Guide To Japanese Grammar: A Japanese Approac... -

Tae Kim's primary thesis is that traditional Western textbooks—such as Genki—fail by trying to force Japanese into a European grammatical mold.

: Unlike most curricula that start with the polite desu/masu forms, Kim starts with casual speech. He argues that polite forms are merely "modifications" of the more fundamental dictionary form. A Guide to Japanese Grammar: A Japanese approac...

The guide is designed to systematically build complex structures from simple, logical units. Tae Kim's primary thesis is that traditional Western

: Kim argues for learning grammar in an order that makes sense within the Japanese language itself, even if it makes the beginning harder. A Guide to Japanese Grammar: A Japanese approac...