Has anyone used the book “All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words”, if so, then what are your thoughts, should a beginner who is confused by particles use it to gain a better understanding, or are there other better books or methods out there?

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1. Its a great book, but its a handbook for looking up particles, not learning them, its complementary.

   Dunno who recommended you to not learn grammar, but learning grammar is extremly important, it extremly efficent to learn sole grammar points in the beginner-intermediate stages(this changes at high intermediate and advanced).

   How are you immersing without grammar? native content uses grammar points beyond n1(becuase its obv. for natives) are you just looking at definitions of words without the actuall context of the sentence? because thats not immersion nor learning.

2. To be honest trying to learn japanese without learning grammar just literally makes no sense. I don’t say this lightly. You won’t understand anything you are listening to or reading if you don’t know how to interpret sentences which you use grammar to do so. If you’re confused about particles it’s because you’re skipping grammar. Getting a book on particles and skipping a basic grammar textbook just seems so strange to me.

   My honest opinion is just buy Genki. It’s tried and tested and loads and loads of people have already had success with it. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel.

3. Cure Dolly YouTube channel is a really excellent resource. I wish I’d started there. Idk the book specifically, but based on other commenters, this seems like a similar resource that lets you type what you’re looking for: https://core6000.neocities.org/dojg/

4. Japanese from Zero.

5. I usually recommend these three cheat sheets:

   https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-grammar/japanese-particles/japanese-particle-table/

   https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-particles-cheatsheet/

   http://cheatsheets.nihonshock.com/sheets/basic-japanese/