Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (Power Japanese S.) - Softcover

Rubin, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4770023103 ISBN 13: 9784770023100

Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 4770023103
• ISBN 13: 9784770023100
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 140