Making Sense of Japanese What the Textbooks Don't Tell You

Name: Making Sense of Japanese What the Textbooks Don't Tell You
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ISBN: 9781568364926

ISBN-10: 156836492X

ISBN-13: 9781568364926

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jay Rubin

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Making Sense of Japaneseis 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 recently at a recuperative center in the hills north of Kyoto, Rubin declared, "I'm still pretty sure that Japanese is not vague. Or at…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Kodansha America, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English