searching lessons by grammer point

[creighton]

I've downloaded all or beginner and int lessons. If i want to study a particular grammar point is there a way that i can find out which lessons deals with that particular grammar. For example if i want to learn about joining i adjectives how do i find the relevant lessons? The titles don't really give an indication. I'd appreciate any help.

[ggenglish]

I love this site so it pains me to speak negatively of it, but you are touching on an issue I've brought up with them in the past. They seem to want to give us this feature with the 'tag' concept but the feature is incredibly buggy.

So to answer your question you can sometimes get lucky with a combination of searching and tags. Tags are found at the bottom of the post after "Grammar:". Sometimes they work sometimes they generate 404 errors. The real tragic thing is they are often created with such unique text that when they do work it only brings up the post you are looking at rather than a group of reference material.

Best of luck.

[Fabrune]

Yes, I too know exactly what you're talking about! The tags are really inconsistent and don't truly indicate the number of lessons that may cover that grammar point. Some lessons, especially the early lessons, may skip tagging the grammar altogether.

However, there is hope. If you have a Premium subscription (I think), you'll have access to Grammar Bank from the Learning Center, under Reference Material. With the Grammar Bank, you can search for a grammar point and click on the summary page for that grammar point. It'll feature the explanation for the grammar, as well as some example sentences (sometimes, they're the same example sentences from a particular lesson's PDF). Also, I've noticed that you can sometimes find explanations for grammar points that haven't had a lesson dedicated to it yet.

I think that the golden nugget of the grammar bank is that on the summary pages, when you scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll find links to the lessons that have either featured or used that particular grammar point.

Also, here's the grammar page for the combining adjectives:
http://www.japanesepod101.com/learningc ... rammar/360
(There weren't any links to lesson PDFs for this grammar point though )

Hope that helped!