Tae Kim's Japanese guide to learning Japanese grammar

TODO List

優先度	ステータス	内容
高	作業中	Finish the Advanced and Miscellaneous Sections
高	作業中	Finish adding popup definitions for all Japanese words
高	未着手	Add a section about とは and にて
高	未着手	Cover やがる
高	未着手	Cover となる after とする
高	未着手	Add かい and だい to gobi section
中	未着手	Cover たまえ grammar
中	未着手	Cover Verb+には grammar
中	未着手	Add してから、したすぐ、する前、した後 grammar
中	作業中	Add practice exercises for each grammar
中	作業中	Compile an index of all grammar
中	作業中	Cover ってば for the casual section
中	未着手	Make a separate section for こ、そ、あ？
低	未着手	Add ねばならない grammar
低	未着手	Add sound
低	未着手	Add glossary
低	未着手	Make English translations hideable

Update History

2005/6/8 - Added quick link to bottom of pages for reporting corrections or suggestions.
2005/6/1 - Thanks to more hard work from Caner Arda and Helena Rivero, we have more pages in Turkish and Spanish.
2005/5/29 - Added Alesson Zaire Marinho, Israel G. Crisanto, and Jefferson Delfes to the list of Portuguese translators.
2005/5/21 - Started up a forum for the grammar guide. Mostly, I wanted to move all the emails I've been getting to a place where others can discuss and get involved.
2005/5/19 - Added google search, hey why didn't anyone tell me it was free?
2005/5/18 - Added the next section, might add more examples later.
2005/5/14 - Added new page to the Portuguese version.
2005/5/10 - Thanks goes to 清原さん for the first Portuguese page!
2005/5/10 - The second major section of the Spanish version is up. Sorry Helena for the delay!
2005/5/10 - Added Nadezhda Nikolova to the new list of translators for Bulgarian.
2005/5/8 - Added Jason Acacio to the new list of translators for Filipino.
2005/5/8 - The first section of the guide in Turkish is now available thanks to the efforts of Caner Arda!
2005/4/28 - 清原ギリェルメ has kindly offered to work on the portuguese translation so that completes the whole list! Of course, if you interested in helping the current translators or on a completely different language, I'll be more than happy to add you to the list.
2005/4/27 - Finished the next section (again no proofreading yet). Almost down with the advanced section!
2005/4/24 - Thanks to Giovanni for his work on the Italian version. Wow, you guys are great!
2005/4/21 - Two more sections of Spanish Version are now up.
2005/4/18 - Thanks to Helena Rivero, we now have the beginnings of the Spanish Version!
2005/4/15 - I finally had a chance to reread some of the new lessons and fix some critical typos. Sorry for any confusions this may have caused!
2005/4/13 - Added Turkish translator to the list!
2005/4/12 - Thanks to the efforts of Anthony Costeseque, we now have the first two sections of the guide in French!
2005/4/10 - Added Spanish translator to the translator list.
2005/4/7 - Added Practice Exercises for State-of-Being.
2005/3/30 - Added German translator to the list. Awesome!
2005/3/31 - Thanks to Anthony Costeseque, we now have the first section of the guide in French.
2005/3/30 - Added Russian translator to the list. Awesome!
2005/3/28 - Added French, Italian, and Swedish contributors. Thanks guys!
2005/3/27 - Added the advanced volitional section.
2005/3/26 - Added examples of other verbs besides 「する」 and spread out examples for attempts.
2005/3/26 - Tweaked explanation of volitional to include idea of a "will" for volitional.
2005/3/26 - Added examples of 「いい」 and 「かっこいい」 and spread out examples for adjectives.
2005/3/25 - Thanks to コンナー for pointing out css for print, the guide should look a little better when printed.
2005/3/25 - I added a page to show who's working on a translation of the guide into another language. Nobody yet but I hope some people will take on the offer!
2005/3/21 - I made some hiragana and katakana exercises. It's currently only tested with firefox so if you have problems with the javascript let me know. I hope to make continue making more practice exercises like this in the future as time allows.
2005/3/16 - The new section has been finished.
2005/3/15 - Ok, it's been over a month with no updates so I'm putting up the new section even though it's not finished. I hope you enjoy and I'll finish it up soon!
2005/2/12 - Changed the なら explanation (Thanks to Murao-san for pointing out that it's not always decided and other pointers.)
2005/1/13 - I've been working on this one for awhile, but the new section is up. As usual, expect some typos as it's a first draft.
2005/1/7 - I wrote up a little perl script to merge the seperate html files into one easy to edit monster file.
2004/12/3 - Ok, the new section has been finished, though, it could use a bit more examples.
2004/11/28 - I put up the beginning of the next section but it's still not finished.
2004/11/21 - Revised and expanded the honorific/humble section.
2004/11/16 - I drew up a little favicon for the site. It's the 「文」 character meaning "sentence" with a rising sun in the background. 「文」 is also the first half of the word for grammar （文法）. Check it out in your bookmark! (You do have this site bookmarked, right?)
2004/11/14 - It's been many months but I finally put the next section up. It's still a first draft, so please excuse any typos!
2004/10/12 - For those of you in doubt, yes, I'm still working on this guide though I can only afford to spend a few minutes a day due to a shortage of free time. I have just started adding popup tool-tips that show the reading and meaning of every Japanese word in the examples. It seems like the perfect compromise between spoon feeding the reading of kanji every time (which will become a crutch and lets you get away with never learning kanji) and forcing even complete beginners to continuously look up every single word (which is frustrating). Now, if you know all the words, everything is the same as before. However, if you run into a word you don't know, you can just hold the mouse cursor over it for a few seconds and the reading and meaning will pop up. Of course, you really should look up each new kanji for its readings and stroke order but this will allow people even with a limited vocabulary to read through the lessons more smoothly. With Firefox, the word that is translated will also be highlighted upon the mouse over. It doesn't look like IE supports this, though. I have finished the basic grammar section and plan to do a lesson a day for the rest.
2004/06/07 - Removed all that nonsense about copula verbs, which was confusing and not helpful in the slightest.
2004/06/05 - I have updated this site to the new 2.0 Creative Commons License. This means that besides the provision that copyright notices must not be removed, it also means that all copies or derivative works must have a clear link back to this site like so: Tae Kim's Japanese Grammar Guide. I'm currently up to my eyeballs in "real" work so please be patient for new updates until I can get some time for myself the latter half of this month.
2004/05/22 - Finally! I have finished the first draft of section 5. Continuing with the never ending battle against typos and minor enhancements, I will start working on the final advanced section. Also, look for the inclusion of a useful grammar index soon.
2004/04/26 - I know there has been no new additions in a loooong time but I'm working on improving a lot of what's already there fixing a lot of small (and big) typos, cross-referencing, etc.. I'm very close to finishing the next lesson (which I'm sure will be full of more typos, ugh) so stay tuned!
2004/04/26 - I was apparently smoking something while I was writing the past tense verb conjugations because I completely missed one very important exception. Review the past tense page to make sure I haven't confused you. Sorry... m(_ _)m
2004/03/27 - The more complete hiragana and katakana sections were merged from the textbook. I also took the textbook down because it became obvious that it is a project that requires much more work than I anticipated. I decided to concentrate on this guide first before taking on such an ambitious project.
2004/02/14 - The guide gets a face-lift from plain, boring html to standards-compliant xhtml! Wow, you know it's cool cause it has an 'x' in it.
2004/01/24 - Fixed the mucho typos.
2003/12/07 - Finally completed the first draft of section 4! Expect mucho typos until I revise it like a million times.
2003/12/04 - Wrote up a tentative outline for the remainder of the guide. So much left to do!
2003/11/27 - Re-added frame version for those who really must have it.
2003/11/16 - Removed frames so that all pages can be easily reached from search engines.
2003/11/14 - The Japanese Grammar Guide finds its new home at www.geocities.jp at 500 yen a month.

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