The structure of the Japanese language
by Susumu Kuno
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…point of being confusing (誰が described as "confidential", I think what they mean is "non-polite")... but regardless, that's nowhere near a "complete introduction" to particles. I have a textbook (The Structure of the Japanese Language by Susumu Kuno) that devotes three entire chapters only to は vs. が. Of course, you can give a tl;dr of it, ignoring edge cases, but you do have to at least talk a bit more carefully about what a topic…
on “Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese” ↗> At some point you will hate it when someone uses romaji since kana is so much easier to read. I'm currently reading The Structure of the Japanese Language, and that is indeed the case (the book doesn't use kana, maybe it was difficult to typeset at that time). And I'm not at all proficient with the language at this point, nor have I studied kana specifically.…
on “Spaced repetition for study and learning” ↗