Yeah, what I’m talking about is calligraphic forms, like various styles of cursive versus something like… Comic Sans or plain sans serif handwriting. For example, compare the kanji in this video to what you usually see in print:
I can also recommend that book! It’s cheaper than buying all three Dictionaries of Japanese Grammar, and from what I’ve heard, it’s just as good. Plus it’s also available in different languages. So if you’re already on a somewhat intermediate level (hard to exactly define, I know), you can get the book in Japanese! It’s still intended for Japanese learners, so it’s not using the most complex sentence structures to explain the grammar, but you still learn / look up Japanese grammar with Japanese explanations
It looks interesting but it seems that I would need some supplemental books to really use it. Unfortunately they don’t offer some sample pages for it.
Looks interesting I may get it one day.
I think the only supplemental book is a single workbook?
Slosh yeah the handbook of Japanese Grammar patterns is good but I don’t view it as an alternative since it is good at this that DoJG isn’t and vice versa.
It seems there is just a workbook and a listening training book Role-based Listening Progressing from Intermediate to Advanced Japanese. The later book is in my opinion pretty useless. It’s better just to listen to real life japanese content for improving listening.
If anyone here wonders I ordered Aozora: Intermediate-Advanced Japanese Communication and Kanzen Master Reading N3 and N2. The texts in the Kanzen master books seem to be harder than the ones in the Tobira book. Unfortunately it will still take some time until my books arrive.