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Here's a pretty comprehensive list:
Other resources that I want to use but is too much of a beginner to do so:
I'll add more as I think of more!
Edit: Formatting
To be honest, a lot of the really good resources for etymology and so on are going to be written in Japanese. That said, here are a few things to try:
I have this one and recommend it https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Particles-Handbook-Japanese/dp/1568364199/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=japanese+particles&qid=1569616553&sr=8-1
> 病院はどこですか,どこが病院ですか? one sentence uses the は, the other が
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/55657/difference-between-x%E3%81%AF%E3%81%A9%E3%81%93-and-%E3%81%A9%E3%81%93%E3%81%8Cx
は is usually used for general information, and が is usually used for more specific information. That's not to say that's the only difference between は and が, there are lots of other subtleties and exceptions when to use one or the other.
I recommend https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Particles-Handbook-Japanese/dp/1568364199 if you want a book to explain it.
Get an SRS. Get Heisig's RTK1. Get a book that illustrates some grammar points -- like All About Particles.
Make a kanji deck from RTK1. Start a sentence deck from All About Particles (or Genki or something similar). Just throw example sentences in full stop with the raw Japanese on the front and defining words you don't know on the back. Then try to find some native reading materials like manga or something.
(or don't, but that's how I did it and it's been great)
I have some issues with particles too, recently bought this book and it is helping clearing somethings up, it's pretty comprehensive. May be worth checking out.
I highly recommend this book , it is my go-to for particles and it is amazing.
+1, the book is All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words. It's not free, but it's cheap.
As @Zarxrax implied, if you attempt to read it front-to-back you will quickly find that studying the different usages of the individual particles is not helpful; there are just way too many cases. You will quickly become bored and not retain anything (note that the situation is analogous in English: if you try to tabulate the different usages of "of", "in", "on", etc. you will quickly find there are a lot).
It's a lot easier to learn a foreign language if you learn a bit of linguistics first.
All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words by Naoko Chino has some crazy Japanese phrases, it is full over very stereotypically Japanese stuff. There's a whole page about different ways of saying 'all the section chief does these days is drink whiskey' (as opposed to 'the section chief drinks nothing but whiskey these days'), and lines about people becoming ill from overwork. When I read it to my Japanese friend, he asked me to stop, because it made him depressed about Japanese culture.
I am very slowly learning Japanese! I started doing it because I got into watching anime online and it intrigued me. Even though I haven't gotten dreadfully far due to dipping in and out of study over the years, I mostly still do it because I find it fun. For years I've offically studied topics like History and English where there's lots of interpretation and less hard facts. So it does my mind good to learn something more... solid? It feels like avery different kind of learning regardless and I find it refreshing.
Grammar is by far my weakest area, mostly because I've found less... 'fun' ways of learning and studying it. Therefore a book about particles would be a tremendous help!
Songs! This is Arashi, they were my one and only boyband love. The level of my obsession was a little scary and I watched far more japanese variety shows than was possibly healthy. This is another song I like, which was one of the... ending? songs for Fullmetal Alchemist. I like how many cool songs by proper artists anime has. I've found so many groups via anime! and this is one I found thanks to Youtube ads!
Bad joke I stole but amuses me:
なぜハワイで歯医者がない? Why are there no dentists in Hawaii?
ハワイで、歯はいい!Because in Hawaii, ha wa ii!
This is funny because the ha wa ii at the end means Teeth(ha 歯) are(wa は- topic marker particle) good(ii いい)
Edit: Forgot to add this, in Pokemon X and Y you have the choice to play it in one of seven languages! English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, or Italian!
This one is pretty good:
https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Particles-Handbook-Japanese/dp/1568364199/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475182255&sr=8-2&keywords=japanese+particles
But I found the information in this book more helpful:
https://www.amazon.com/Kanzen-Grammar-Japanese-Language-Proficiency/dp/4883196941/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1475182306&sr=8-5&keywords=jlpt+grammar