04574cam a2200949 4500 1695407014 TxAuBib 20241104120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781568366081 1568366086 B08Q84BHBX Amazon e2b36392-1bc9-4210-badc-fa3edad25c64 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5964831 OverDrive (Product ID) 563587 563587 563587 TxAuBib Rubin, Jay. Making Sense of Japanese [Libby eBook] : What the Textbooks Don't Tell You. Kodansha USA, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3754kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. japanese language learning. Personal development. foreign language. Military History. Self Improvement. japanese grammar. learn japanese. communication. Step by Step. Spirituality. Martial Arts. linguistics. Historical. dictionary. philosophy. psychology. management. spiritual. cookbooks. parenting. languages. self help. Reference. language. Business. japanese. Military. Buddhism. Cooking. culture. Writing. manners. classic. mystery. samurai. grammar. crafts. health. gaming. french. sports. how to. Osprey. Games. Magic. roman. Food. yoga. art. HTML:<i>Making Sense of Japanese</i> 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."<br /> 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 least, it's not as vague as it used to be. Probably."<br /> The notorious "subjectless sentence" of Japanese comes under close scrutiny in Part One. A sentence can't be a sentence without a subject, so even in cases where the subject seems to be lost or hiding, the author provides the tools to help you find it. Some attention is paid as well to the rest of the sentence, known technically to grammarians as "the rest of the sentence."<br /> Part Two tackles a number of expressions that have baffled students of Japanese over the decades, and concludes with Rubin's patented technique of analyzing upside-down Japanese sentences right-side up, which, he claims, is "far more restful" than the traditional way, inside-out.<br /> "The scholar," according to the great Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume, is "one who specializes in making the comprehensible incomprehensible." Despite his best scholarly efforts, Rubin seems to have done just the opposite.<br /> Previously published in the Power Japanese series under the same title and originally as Gone Fishin' in the same series. Foreign Language Study. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-11-03 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e2b36392-1bc9-4210-badc-fa3edad25c64&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e2b36392-1bc9-4210-badc-fa3edad25c64&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e2b36392-1bc9-4210-badc-fa3edad25c64&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID