Reddit reviews All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words

Here's a pretty comprehensive list:

1. Mostly Lingodeer
   
2. Google, r/LearnJapanese and Tae Kim's guide when I'm unsure of something
   
3. Genki 1 textbook for listening and just to consolidate what I've learned from Lingodeer
   
4. Steven Kraft's Japanese Projects for Verb Conjugation Practice
   
5. Erin's Japanese is just an amazing comprehensive website for listening, seeing how native people speak, manga onomatopoeia, listening comprehension, native phrases, vocabulary, real life situations in Japan.
   
6. Benjiro's Conversations for listening practice
   
7. Memrise's Japanese counters' course
   
8. My Japanese friend as a sentence checker for sentence composition and speaking (though my crippling social anxiety prevents me so
   
9. jpmarumaru if you can navigate around Chinese/Cantonese (I mostly use it for their number quiz)
   
10. All About Particles Book to help me to understand the uses of particles
    
11. Easy Japanese video series for listening to native japanese people
    
12. Jisho.org and Midori --> Dictionaries on laptop and phone for fast searching.
    
13. Anki + Yomichan with the AnkiConnect extension so I can add terminology I found online
    
14. NHK Easy News to mine for terminology (the app on iOS and online both)
    
15. An N5/N4 workbook that I bought from Japan.
    
16. MLC Japanese for some amazing Japanese resources.
    
17. Duolingo (though I haven't started) for the sake of sentence composition and terminology, as they're more flexible with sentence structure than Lingodeer. Lingodeer's grammar teaching helps consolidate an idea of grammar, but Duolingo helps with developing it faster.
    
    Other resources that I want to use but is too much of a beginner to do so:
    
    
18. Daiweeb for Japanese subtitles for anime
    
19. My volumes of manga sitting on my shelf (Oremonogatari and Yotsubato)
    
20. Ameba on iOS (kind of a japanese social media website)
    
21. My plan to purchase Genki 2 soon (I've been saving)
    
    I'll add more as I think of more!
    Edit: Formatting

To be honest, a lot of the really good resources for etymology and so on are going to be written in Japanese. That said, here are a few things to try:

• Makino and Tsutsui's Dictionary of ~ Japanese Grammar series. They provide a really thorough resource for looking up the usage of various words and phrases. If you only get one of my recommendations, this is it.
  
  
• TSujimura's An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics. I don't know if this is the best linguistics text out there, but I've used it and it's serviceable. The main drawback is that Tsujimura insists on using kunrei-shiki romanization instead of Hepburn, which for me creates a surreal disconnect between the text on the page and the actual sounds represented. On the plus side, this is an introduction, so you're not expected to know anything about linguistics in order to read it.
  
  
• Naoko Chino's All About Particles. You don't get a cookie for guessing what this one's about.
  
  
• Helen McCullough's Bungo Manual - if you're interested in classical Japanese, it's another slim volume that will help out a lot.
  
  
• If you're feeling brave, try the Chibi Maruko Kyoushitsu series. They're in Japanese, but it's aimed at elementary-school kids, so it should be relatively accessible. I have the books on 漢字使い分け, 四字熟語, and 作文, and wouldn't mind picking up others when I get the chance.
  
  
• Beyond this, looking for resources at your local university library should give you lots of leads. Just search the catalog for a textbook name, go to the shelf where it's stored in the stacks, and look around for other resources in the same shelf - or ask a librarian to help you; that's what they're there for! Even if you can't check anything out because you're not affiliated, at many colleges it should be possible to browse a bit and make a note of things to find later on your own.

I have this one and recommend it https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Particles-Handbook-Japanese/dp/1568364199/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=japanese+particles&qid=1569616553&sr=8-1

> 病院はどこですか,どこが病院ですか？ one sentence uses the は, the other が

https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/55657/difference-between-x%E3%81%AF%E3%81%A9%E3%81%93-and-%E3%81%A9%E3%81%93%E3%81%8Cx

は is usually used for general information, and が is usually used for more specific information. That's not to say that's the only difference between は and が, there are lots of other subtleties and exceptions when to use one or the other.

I recommend https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Particles-Handbook-Japanese/dp/1568364199 if you want a book to explain it.

Get an SRS. Get Heisig's RTK1. Get a book that illustrates some grammar points -- like All About Particles.

Make a kanji deck from RTK1. Start a sentence deck from All About Particles (or Genki or something similar). Just throw example sentences in full stop with the raw Japanese on the front and defining words you don't know on the back. Then try to find some native reading materials like manga or something.

(or don't, but that's how I did it and it's been great)

I have some issues with particles too, recently bought this book and it is helping clearing somethings up, it's pretty comprehensive. May be worth checking out.

I highly recommend this book , it is my go-to for particles and it is amazing.

+1, the book is All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words. It's not free, but it's cheap.

As @Zarxrax implied, if you attempt to read it front-to-back you will quickly find that studying the different usages of the individual particles is not helpful; there are just way too many cases. You will quickly become bored and not retain anything (note that the situation is analogous in English: if you try to tabulate the different usages of "of", "in", "on", etc. you will quickly find there are a lot).

It's a lot easier to learn a foreign language if you learn a bit of linguistics first.

All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words by Naoko Chino has some crazy Japanese phrases, it is full over very stereotypically Japanese stuff. There's a whole page about different ways of saying 'all the section chief does these days is drink whiskey' (as opposed to 'the section chief drinks nothing but whiskey these days'), and lines about people becoming ill from overwork. When I read it to my Japanese friend, he asked me to stop, because it made him depressed about Japanese culture.

I am very slowly learning Japanese! I started doing it because I got into watching anime online and it intrigued me. Even though I haven't gotten dreadfully far due to dipping in and out of study over the years, I mostly still do it because I find it fun. For years I've offically studied topics like History and English where there's lots of interpretation and less hard facts. So it does my mind good to learn something more... solid? It feels like avery different kind of learning regardless and I find it refreshing.

Grammar is by far my weakest area, mostly because I've found less... 'fun' ways of learning and studying it. Therefore a book about particles would be a tremendous help!

Songs! This is Arashi, they were my one and only boyband love. The level of my obsession was a little scary and I watched far more japanese variety shows than was possibly healthy. This is another song I like, which was one of the... ending? songs for Fullmetal Alchemist. I like how many cool songs by proper artists anime has. I've found so many groups via anime! and this is one I found thanks to Youtube ads!

Bad joke I stole but amuses me:

なぜハワイで歯医者がない？ Why are there no dentists in Hawaii?

ハワイで、歯はいい！Because in Hawaii, ha wa ii!

This is funny because the ha wa ii at the end means Teeth(ha 歯) are(wa は- topic marker particle) good(ii いい)

Edit: Forgot to add this, in Pokemon X and Y you have the choice to play it in one of seven languages! English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, or Italian!

This one is pretty good:

https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Particles-Handbook-Japanese/dp/1568364199/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475182255&sr=8-2&keywords=japanese+particles

But I found the information in this book more helpful:

https://www.amazon.com/Kanzen-Grammar-Japanese-Language-Proficiency/dp/4883196941/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1475182306&sr=8-5&keywords=jlpt+grammar