I’m into particles right now, I’m doing some reading about it but I’m still feel a little slow in that, I’d like to know what was your study method to memorize them, if you make any practices or what you do.
Thanks for you attention, best regards to all of you.
Hi there, i use an app called lingodeer to learn grammar and other things like that.
Once you start studying you will realize you’re learning particles naturally with time, just studying grammar in general.
honestly, just reading more and more (for me it’s japanese native twitter users posts and various NHK news/other news sources in japanese). and if i’m stuck, i reference my all about particles book/grammar dictionaries.
As has been said: reading. Things like this make much more sense in context, and I think a reasonable effective study method is to look them up when you come across them naturally.
Read the textbook explanation and see how it fits into what you are reading. Often textbooks will give dozens of English language equivalents (looking at you, Tai Kim), but these can always be reduced to one, two, or at worst three abstract ideas that you can use to make sense of them in sentences.
The particle と for instance almost always just joins things together. Even the quotation と can be thought of as joining the quote with the speaker.
With that said, I do think it’s worth having a reasonable knowledge of the particles that form the foundations of Japanese sentences: は、が、を、に、and maybe also of の、と、& も, to make it easier to start with. Also, reading about them out of context can help you recognise them as particles when you do see them, as it’s not always obvious in a stream of kana, but I wouldn’t try and memorise them.
I found shadowing, writing out practice sentences using grammar points I’ve learned and taking note of what particles are used with what words when I’m reading intensively have all helped me to figure out what particles are used when. Most of the time though, I just feel that additional practice with real content I can understand is what actually helps me to retain stuff.