Navigation Categories
sci.lang.japan FAQ book information and reviews

Reviews by Gerald B. Mathias

The Complete Guide to Everyday Kanji

Six chapters cover: 1, rules of stroke order; 2, about 150 simple "basic" kanji, with early forms, showing development from pictures or abstract symbols; 3, kanji that combine semantic elements; 4, characters containing phonetic elements; 5, kun-yomi, okurigana, ateji, proper names; 6, rules (and ... read more

Japanese Surnames

Not to worry about this one, in my opinion. It was very valuable to me in the early 60's but not long after O'Neill came out I was happy to give it and _Japanese Personal Names_ away.

Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar

I considered the strengths of the book to be (not necessarily in strength order) its 19 pages of indexes (one an English one for "How to say ... (e.g. "you")?" questions, the other grammatical, for "What does ... mean?" questions; I estimated that each has about 1500 entries), its frequent ... read more


For questions, comments, or if you would like to add your review to the above list, please email Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock@gmail.com> or use the discussion group for this web site.