This is the dokuwiki for the first publication issue of the grammar book associated with Nihongo Resources. In addition to being published in hardcopy book form, the book will be made freely available for download, and the content will be put online for consultation.
If you wish to contribute by typo-hunting, consistency checking, general proof reading, or by suggesting (in your opinion) missing content or additional example phrases or text, please contact me and I shall be happy to provide you with a login that will allow you to edit the text on the wiki. You can also leave a comment in the relevant section, which doesn't require any form of logging in or editing the actual section text.
For editors, a note on section locks: there's only one person who can lock and unlock sections, and that's the ol' admin. If you encounter a section that is locked (and is thus considered properly finalised) but still has mistakes in it, please contact me and I can unlock it for editing.
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These pages describe the content of the Nihongoresources book content for publication
And the appendices:
For possible future versions:
You may have noticed each section offers the possibility to comment on it. This should be done with care: comments are intended only for when a section is incomplete, has errors, or contains redundant information! Do not use the comments to say you like a section, or dislike it. They're not for feedback or general discussions, they're there to recommend changes to the text so that the section can be improved.
If a section lacks example phrases, comment. If the text is too complicated, comment. If you think the text is misleading, comment. If you don't like the explanation but from a grammatical perspective the explanation is correct, think twice before commenting: your opinion is fairly irrelevant when it comes to comments, only comments with suggestions on how to improve a section, or pinpointing what exactly is wrong with it, will be worked with.
That said, if you do find a section that's lacking, erroneous, or repetetive, do add a comment. It'll help improve the book for everyone.
Finally, if you want to test the commenting functionaly, please use the commenting test bed page.
The technical details on how this Dokuwiki has been customised for Japanese, as well as for Dokuwiki to LaTeX conversion, and how the LaTeX conversion specifically works, please refer to this page.
To see how much it costs to offer a free product like this, see this page.
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