Till now and beyond…
Till now I started writing the Guide to Japanese grammar… oh I don’t even really remember it was so long ago. Maybe about 6 years ago? I took me about 3 or 4 years to gradually cover most of the topics...
View ArticleJapanese textbooks: I may complain but I understand
I’ve complained about the the current state of most Japanese textbooks for quite a while now. My chief complaints include using ローマ字, teaching polite form before the dictionary form, and poor to no...
View ArticleExplaining the long vowel sound
In a previous post, I talked about the surprising complexity in explaining long vowel sounds. Since then, I’ve made a little progress and decided to separate the /ei/ and /ee/ long vowel sounds...
View ArticleDocBook sucks…
I wrote my original grammar guide in clean XHTML by hand. The beauty of XHTML validation is that it’ll easily catch your boneheaded tag errors automatically. Also, I was already comfortable with HTML,...
View ArticleAnother approach to the textbook
I haven’t been spending as much time as I’d like on the textbook project and I think I’ve figured out the reason why. It’s just not turning out the way I like and therefore I don’t feel any excitement...
View ArticleMy textbook introduction and first dialogue
As indicated in my last post, after struggling with the traditional textbook approach, I’ve decided to scrap everything and start afresh. I thought hard about what I wanted from a textbook when I first...
View ArticleOn LaTeX, self publishing, and another dialogue
Though progress continues to be slow, the textbook project is finally turning into something I’m getting excited about. Lately, I’ve been thinking about layout and presentation. Here is the second...
View ArticleYou think Japanese is hard, try LaTeX
I haven’t been posting lately because I’ve been trying to focus on my book which I’ve decided to call “Tae’s Complete Guide to Japanese”. I’m having some hiccups because TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, whatever the...
View ArticleThe Grammar Guide in Print
It’s finally done! Available on Amazon for $25 Now I can concentrate on finishing my next book! No related posts.
View ArticleThe 10 year plan
It’s been almost a month since the the grammar guide has been on Amazon and you’ve been buying at least one copy everyday! Thanks everybody for your support! I’m so excited that I’ve decided to take...
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