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I want to start learning the Japanese language in more depth for literary and philosophical purposes - reading the Kyoto School guys in the original mainly. What are the most comprehensive books someone would need to learn the language in-depth?

>> No.17484256

>Japanese language in more depth
So I assume you're pretty decent?
>reading the Kyoto School guys in the original mainly
Well I guess we share the same goal, fellow kyotoschool-appreciator
>What are the most comprehensive books someone would need to learn the language in-depth
There is no "must read" books for learning. Just read whatever you're interested in
ゆっくりしていってね!

>> No.17484267

>>17483308
I'd also like to learn Japanese, but in order to read Please Don't Bully Me Nagatoro in its original language.

>> No.17484288

>>17483308
There's a really helpful three volume grammar dictionary compiled by Makino and Tsutsui. It's not cheap, though.

>> No.17484304

>>17483308
If you can already read Japanese decently just start reading some literature with a dictionary by your side to look up words and you'll start getting good at it

>> No.17484310

>>17483308
The hardest part of learning Japanese for me has been simply learning to notice and hear symbols and sounds. The best tool for overcoming it has been immersion - reading and listening.

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>is there a textbook for learning Japanese?
Yes obviously. Look up Genki.

>> No.17484344

The Japanese can just speak Black English after they accept diversity. Why continue their racist language?

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>> No.17484398

I mean who’s even in the school of value beyond Nishida? Isn’t there a ton of work on his developments in English?

>> No.17484502

>>17484398
Nishitani? Tho I haven't read that much from him
Reading kyoto school provides a good context for other japanese guys like Watsuji or Yuasa who technically do not belong to the lineage of the school but the influence is obvious

>> No.17484526

>>17484502
I haven’t heard of them honestly, Kyoto is as far into the Japanese philosophy as I’ve gone and also a bit of the post modern surge that Japan had. What do you think of those two?

>> No.17484646

I want to learn enough Japanese to go to Japan and play mahjong and get killed by yakuza after I take so much money from people. What do?

>> No.17484777

>>17484526
If you were intrigued by Nishida's takes on self and place then Watsuji expanded on that with his notion of in-between-ness (and yes this this inspired by Heidegger's mitsein).
Yuasa has some interesting writings on self-cultivation and the body. I guess you can say he's the most 'pragmatic'? At least that is my impression after some parts of his "The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory".