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

ISBN: 9784770028020 | 4770028024
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Pub. Date: 3/1/2002

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 E... MORE
Prefacep. 7
Introduction: Learning the Language of the Infinitep. 11
The Myth of the Subjectless Sentencep. 25
Wa and Ga: The Answers to Unasked Questionsp. 31
The Invisible Man's Family Reunionp. 50
The Explainers: Kara Da, Wake Da, No Dap. 75
The Johnny Carson Hodop. 89
Kanjip. 92
Shiru and Wakaru: To Know You Is Not Necess... MOREp. 94
Taming Tamep. 99
Tsumori and the Vanishing Beefsteakp. 101
You Say Kimeru and I Say Kimarup. 105
Warning: This Language Works Backwardsp. 106
The Pleasures of Reading Japanesep. 110
The Unbelievable Complexity of Being: Aru vs. De Arup. 112
Go Jump in the Lake. But Be Sure to Come Backp. 115
Fiddlers Three = Three Fiddlers?p. 116
Eating in the Wrong Directionp. 117
Anticipation, or: Progressive Simplification, or: Analyzing Upside-Down Sentencesp. 119
Notesp. 130
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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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