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Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You
Jay Rubin
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Description for Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: CJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 176.
Making Sense of Japanese is the fruit of one foolhardy American's thirty-year struggle to learn and teach the Language of the Infinite. Previously known as Gone Fishin', this book has brought Jay Rubin more feedback than any of his literary translations or scholarly tomes, even if,' he says, 'you discount the hate mail from spin-casters and the stray gill-netter.' To convey his conviction that 'the Japanese language is not vague,' Rubin has dared to explain how some of the most challenging Japanese grammatical forms work in terms of everyday English. Reached'
Making Sense of Japanese is the fruit of one foolhardy American's thirty-year struggle to learn and teach the Language of the Infinite. Previously known as Gone Fishin', this book has brought Jay Rubin more feedback than any of his literary translations or scholarly tomes, even if,' he says, 'you discount the hate mail from spin-casters and the stray gill-netter.' To convey his conviction that 'the Japanese language is not vague,' Rubin has dared to explain how some of the most challenging Japanese grammatical forms work in terms of everyday English. Reached'
Product Details
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
176g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781568364926
SKU
V9781568364926
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About Jay Rubin
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 ... Read more
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