{"product_id":"making-sense-of-japanese-what-the-textbooks-dont-tell-you-paperback","title":"Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJay Rubin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreviously published in the Power Japanese series under the same title and originally as Gone Fishin' in the same series.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAY RUBIN\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University, where he has employed the pedagogical techniques contained in \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e \"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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.1 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771501150496,"sku":"9781568364926","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6402351017272fedc2e4e5e9f38ea340.webp?v=1780387690","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/making-sense-of-japanese-what-the-textbooks-dont-tell-you-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}