Is there a deck available that follows very strictly the tae Kim grammar book? I found one that is labelled as such however it is immediately trying to get me to use deshita and desu, which is not described in the book in the chapter that it supposedly testing - only standard “da” is taught in chapter 1 of the book. I want to follow the book strictly and use it as my teacher, with Bunpro testing me on the material I studied. Are there any decks that do this or any way to change the current deck I’m using so that it follows the book strictly? I’m frustrated with being tested on material that’s not being taught yet.
bunpro/decks/textbook/Tae Kim’s Japanese Grammar Guide
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I personally dont recommend Tae Kim if you actually want a linguistic perspective on the language. (Tae Kim mostly just creates rules for the sake of making things as easy to be understood as possible, which is a good approach for some and definitely a valid approach, but it will lead to at least some confusion later.)
If you want to focus on a different, a little harder but more stable approach, I recommend Cure Dolly Sensei on Youtube. Even if her style is a bit unique, she is a really good teacher.
Frankly not wanting to learn です and でした fairly early is a bad idea. It’s everywhere in the language.
The tae kim deck follow the book pretty strictly for the most part. The reason you’re seeing those now is that in bunpro they’re combined in one grammar point (such as だった/でした). Bunpro almost always includes polite and plain variants of the same grammar in the same item.
That said, while I’m following the tae kim deck myself, I discourage you to do so and if I could go back in time I wouldn’t. But I’m too stubborn to switch so here we are.
The reason is, things in tae kim are goruped by topic. You’ll end up with 5 ways of saying must, 4 ways of saying to do and 4 ways of saying “nothing but” and so on at the same srs stage. Sometimes they’re interchangeable, sometimes they aren’t. It will lead to frustration.
I followed tae kim because it focusses on conversation. In retrospect this aspect is overrated because I can’t have conversations until I have a somewhat solid grasp of the language anyway. Whether you go by tae kim or by jlpt prio is probably not going to have a big influence on when you’ll be able to have conversations.
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