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Presents answers to the nagging questions fo basic Japanese handled with a light touch and humour. Formerly published as "Gone Fishin'", this text includes a new chapter on upside-down sentences. The Power Japanese series presents a selection of guides to difficult or confusing aspects of the Japanese language. The student can find a quick reference to particles, a guide to the myriad levels of politeness, books of idioms, vocabulary builders, emotive expressions and turns of speech - all with natural examples.
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"Brief, wittily written essays that gamely attempt to explain some of the most frustrating hurdles [of Japanese]...It can be read and enjoyed by students at any level."
About the Author
Jay Rubin is a professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University, where he has employed the pedagogical techniques contained in Making Sense of Japanese "as infrequently as possible." He has authored Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State and Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, edited Modern Japanese Writers, and translated Soseki Natsume's Sanshiro and The Miner and Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, and After the Quake (Knopf and Harvill, 2002).
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- PublisherKodansha International Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 4770023103
- ISBN 13 9784770023100
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages140
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