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My name is Tsuyoshi Ito in English and 伊藤剛志 (いとうつよし) in Japanese. I am a native speaker of Japanese with a casual interest in languages. I have been living outside Japan for a few years, and my knowledge about trends in Japanese is likely to be outdated.

Aside: My secret goal is to keep being the top answerer in the tag “food.”


May
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comment What's the proper way to use 先 versus 前に or 以前?
Although this is not the point of your question, “先に書いた本” is perfectly acceptable, although this phrase somehow suggests to me that the speaker had planned to write at least two books from the beginning (this might not be agreed by all speakers of Japanese). “先の書いた本” is incorrect as Ignacio explained.
May
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comment Is there an easily accessible list of terms in the Japanese grammar written both in Japanese and English?
@Ali: I posted a question on meta.
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revised Is there an easily accessible list of terms in the Japanese grammar written both in Japanese and English?
clarified that I am not looking for general Japanese-English dictionaries
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