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>Recently grew frustrated with how it seemed like I had to keep restarting Tae Kim's grammar guide from the beginning, since he throws so much information at you all up front and you better remember it quickly and for the long haul by the time you get to Section 4, so I decided to take a break and try a different approach by going through Roy Andrew Miller's A Japanese Reader (1962) just to change the pace of things for me.
Just decided to provide an update on this. So going further in Miller, the guy pretty much sums up the entirety on of the Japanese conjugation rules into three pages in an admittedly confusing manner. The guy made it clear that the book is basically a "cliff notes" of the lesson's from Samuel Martin's
Essential Japanese for each "lesson", but I wasn't expecting it to be something that completely blunt. If I was to compare it to Tae Kim, it's basically everything up through section 4.6 (125 pages) of his grammar guide. That being said, it does point out something that it feels like is left unsaid because it's so "obvious" except to the "stupid" (Like me). It is that if you're actually going to want to learn Japanese, then you need to start
reading Japanese . That you need to start this habit early on in your studies or you're going to stall and fast. Don't focus
too much on the grammar or you're going to be wasting your time memorizing rules that you don't know nor know how to apply. Yes, grind through Anki-decks of vocabulary, but make sure it's covering the 教育漢字 and then get to reading grade-school level material right then and there. Do anything more advanced too soon and you're going to be burning yourself out.
Best way to tell if you're ready for more advanced material is if you're using a Jap-Jap dictionary to look stuff up instead of a Jap-Eng dictionary.
Like I said, this should be something "obvious" (As well as a few other Anon's having since pointed this little fact out), but I can guarantee that if I missed this, then other people have as well