[aDoIJG] Appendices 💮 A Dictionary of Intermidiate Japanese Grammar

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Appendices

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Week	Start Date	Reading	Entry Count	Page Numbers	Page Count
#32	Aug 10th	Appendices #2-3		626 - 665	40
#33	Aug 17th	Appendices #4-6		666 - 697	32
#34	Aug 24th	Appendices #7-8		698 - 734	37

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[pm215]

I just skimmed through the appendix of counters – too dull for me to read it properly…

[pm215]

I thought I’d better post to say that I did finish the appendices, and so also this volume of the Dictionary. I found the appendices much less interesting reading than the main articles (which I guess is why they’re relegated to appendices…)

I think Appendix 4 (conjunctions) and 8 (functional expressions) seem like they would be the most useful to an intermediate learner, especially if you have a need to produce output, since they gather together and summarize various different ways to say “but”, “therefore”, make requests, give advice, etc. But for me right now that’s not the point I’m at, so I don’t suppose I’ll have much need to refer to them.

Thank you again to @helloorange for organising the discussion threads.