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I would very much like for the three Dictionaries of Japanese Grammar (Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced) to be digitized to make searching easier.
Text extraction is easy. You can find programs that read the in-game text as you play the game.
As for text replacement: Grab a hold of someone who is either familiar with VN engines or a reverse engineer.
As for translation at your level: Knowledge of Japanese grammar is more important that Kanji recognition since you can look things up. If you want to learn more grammar, I would recommend picking up these three grammar dictionaries ([1], [2], [3]) and reading through them.
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Basic-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789004546
[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Intermediate-Japanese-Grammar-Seiichi/dp/4789007758
[3]: http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Advanced-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789012956
>This is Google Translate's idea.
Here's your problem.
Go buy this :
https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Basic-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789004546
https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Intermediate-Japanese-Grammar-Seiichi/dp/4789007758
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is also a possibility.
["A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar"](http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Intermediate-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789007758 by Makino and Tsutsui) uses both versions.
As for self-study, this is what you need IMO:
These are hard to find in the US but you can get them new from Amazon.co.jp:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/A-Dictionary-Basic-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789004546/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AN1VRQENFRJN5
￥ 2,946
http://www.amazon.co.jp/A-Dictionary-Intermediate-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789007758/ref=pd_luc_sim_01_01_t_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1
￥ 3,885
Shipping & Handling: ￥ 3,300
Order Total: ￥ 9,806
So for a $100 you can get a solid grammar reference set. There's a third in this series but it's not quite as useful as the first two.
That, combined with rikkaichan or what have you for inline vocabulary help would be a pretty good use of your time I think.
Plus there's always /r/LearnJapanese, too!
I would recommend purchasing the Dictionary of Japanese Grammar series (Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced), and then entering the plethora of example sentences into Anki.
In my opinion it's harmful to directly memorize grammatical explanations, as it's contrary to the way that a native's cognition works when producing sentences. Instead, one should use grammatical explanations to gain intuition for how the moving parts of the example sentences add together to produce the meaning (as illustrated by the translation), and then forget the specific grammatical explanations while reviewing only the sentences (looking at the translation if necessary but otherwise just trying to visualize the meaning).
Did you mean A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar and A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar? My Basic dictionary is sitting right next to me, so I figured thats what you meant, but wanted to clarify for the OP.
I'm not a fan of textbooks either. I figure if you're at that level and are not particularly interested in passing a specific test, then nix the textbooks and get a grammar reference like the beginning and intermediate levels of this and get a good electronic dictionary and dive straight into novels. When I got into novels earlier this year, and I don't even have the grammar reference... I'm planning on picking those up in a few weeks, things really started taking off for me. So I'd recommend doing that.
I've found the Dictionaries of Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Grammar to be the one of, if not the most useful thing, I've found to help with learning Japanese.
Sam Martin's Reference Grammar of Japanese is also excellent, but good luck finding a copy.
The various Dictionary of * Japanese Grammar books are all pretty good. They have good explanations and example sentences and if you use Anki, there exist decks that cover all of the example sentences in the books.
The only issue for self-study is that they are laid out like dictionaries, so they go in alphabetical order. I would also recommend the Kanzen Master grammar books if you want something a little more guided.
You know what? You're right. 50 bucks is nothing down the line anyways. Might as well invest. Just to confirm this is the right item?
http://www.amazon.com/A-Dictionary-Intermediate-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789007758
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alc.co.jp is free and the dictionary is worth every penny to explain the finer points and get you to use canonical Japanese.
> I don't really care if Hayashi did his homework or if the lady reading the newspaper is Tanaka and neither do the people I want to talk to.
At my undergrad school, I taught the language lab (1 hour per week required intensive practice session where we drilled the students) for three years. I was surprised at how surprised the actual instructors were that the students often wrote very similar criticisms on their course evaluation forms. No one gives a fuck what Hayashi is or is not doing. But, everyone was up on the latest chapter of whatever Shōnen Jump manga was popular at the time.
I'm a huge fan of manga. Even as a first year student I enjoyed plodding along in my favorite story with my trusty denshi jisho, and copies of my Yellow and Blue. (The Red one hadn't come out yet.)
Pick a story and go for it. Even if you have to keep a translated copy nearby to help understand.
Lots of people here are mentioning Tobira, which I don't have any personal experience with, but I just wanted to chip in by saying that my university/universities went from Genki I and II to An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese + its workbook and almost all of the the JLPT N3 books. After that there were a bunch of different textbooks in Japanese; can't remember that well, but I can see if I can dig something up later.
Edit:
One of the Japanese universities used the 中級を学ぼう books which was...okay. But at least the first one could be comparable to the Genki level, though.
They also used this, but that would be for later, when you start wanting to write more advanced reports/essays.
Had a look at someone's 聞いて覚える話し方 日本語生中継 books, which was quite rubbish and/or very basic.
Some also bought these and these but I can't vouch for them.
Your comment—and the general consensus around here—convinced me that I should get that series of grammar books. However, I'm not sure I found the right series. If there's any chance you could confirm it's these (basic, intermediate and advanced, seems to be all for ￥11,130) it would be highly appreciated. :)
Thank you!
I'd say the first one. I bought it, it's decent - but somehow I think it'd be better to not buy this basic one. Learn basic grammar in a textbook like Genki and for advanced grammar you can still buy https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Intermediate-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4789007758
Because as soon as you finish Genki, you are already very familiar with everything in this basic book.
It's like you're not even reading what I'm saying. I've read that book cover to cover as well as this one. It isn't about whether there is a に or not-- it's about whether or not the topic is dative (a case that is sometimes marked by に in Japanese) and whether or not 好き should be literally translated as "liked" or "likable." You seem to have fixated on one aspect of my speedily written post and decided it was grounds to categorically disqualify everything else contained therein.