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The Nihongo Resources grammar book: "An Introduction to Japanese; Syntax, Grammar & Language"
"kanji sentence finaliser" sounds a bit odd! I'd say "closing mark" is a more convenient, short, description!
Hi, I've glanced over your book and it seems very well-structured. Certainly a breath of fresh air from the heavily European-influenced mess that is traditional "Japanese grammar" in the West....
A lot of my friends were linking me the guide and after I finished chapter 1 I thought wow this is the best overview of Japanese ever. The author truly...
Section 2.3.22 - Past tense ... The common explanation for だ is that it came from **で, the continuative of です**, and the verb ある, to form the copula である....
In chapter "Verb grammar", section "Inflection bases", the 未然形 of various adjectives is given as `高く`, `楽しく`, `薄く` and `大きく`. Similarly, in section "Basic inflections", the 未然形 of ない is...
even in 2019 ruby support is terrible, so it might be worth switching over to flexbox layout instead, and hope that looks more correct.
How about this for #34? - A python script (python 3.6+, but easy to backport) using the fontTools package to subset multiple fontfiles until all the codepoints can be displayed....
This would require: - inventory which characters are used from which blocks (this should be easily scriptable: just run through the content files and build a list of used codepoints,...
Although the challenge here is of course that all the fonts used to build this book are _not_ free and cannot be put on github. They'd have to get pulled...
The text size for kanji with furigana is tiny in mobile browsers like Chrome for android. Hiragana and Katakana do not face this problem. One has to zoom in almost...