That's where learning about the particles come in. Now that you have a bunch of nouns and a bunch of verbs and adjectives (that you can inflect), you need to know how to piece them together. After knowing the conjugation rules pat, you can get new vocabulary out of a dictionary or ask a native speaker. The less mental overhead for remembering how to do it, the less painful it will be. On the other hand, the verbs and adjectives inflect so I'll try to present the most compact rules conceivable for allowing you to manipulate every verb you ever encounter and hopefully you can take it from their. So *you* can take care of the nouns yourself as you see fit. Plus we won't be worrying about those strange noun-like things that can act like adjectives. They almost never inflect (in any true meaning of the word) and are easy. This is my reasoning on this: you can build a vocabulary of nouns, just by looking in a dictionary or asking a native speaker. This article therefore only covers *two* things: Particles (those wa, ga, wo, de, ni and he thingies) and verb conjugations.
It makes no pretense of being complete, but tries to pack the most *useful information* necessary to achieve the *goal of using Japanese* in the *shortest possible space*. This QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE TO JAPANESE was meant to help you do just that. Sure, they want to say things correctly as often as possible, but they also want to get into the language quickly and start mixing it up early. Many students of Japanese just want to communicate. It's not very different from other versions available on the web other than that it's been indexed for easy browsing, and contains further links and information at the bottom. I recall running across a similarly html-lized version a year or two ago, but have since not been able to find it again, hence this presentation. Usually the guide is presented in a plain-text-only format. Posted years ago on the newsgroup, this guide appears in a multitude of pages written by folks such as myself, devoted to the learning of the Japanese language. The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese is a canonical classic of the Internet community. This particular html-lized version by John Teehan (1998)
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese
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