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Title:Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (Power Japanese)
Author:Jay Rubin
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 144 pages
Published:March 1st 2002 by Kodansha (first published 1992)
Categories:Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Nonfiction. Humanities. Language

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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 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."

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."

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.

"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.

Previously published in the Power Japanese series under the same title and originally as Gone Fishin' in the same series.

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Original Title: Gone Fishin’
ISBN: 4770028024 (ISBN13: 9784770028020)
Edition Language: English
Series: Power Japanese

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This book is a collection of essays that tries to demystify aspects language learners often have trouble with. It's aimed at beginners, though often dips into intermediate territory. If you've been studying for a few years now, you still might get something out of it, such as the concept of the zero pronoun explained in a way you haven't considered before. Or illuminating giving/receiving verbs, and when to use what, which can be difficult in Japanese.My only comment is that I believe the romaji

Required reading before stepping into intermediate Japanese and after having a bit of experience with native Japanese texts (not just your textbook's texts). It will help clarify many grammar points that are muddled in textbooks and grammar books, (wa and ga and misunderstood passive voice are the main focus here, then small essays on smaller grammar points like tsumori,tame, hodo, Johnny Carson and more ). I don't think it will do you any good in the beginner level (other than laughing out loud

4.5 stars (-0.5 for romaji :c)While I already knew a couple of the specific nuances and things addressed in this book (though certainly not all!), the way the author discusses the concepts and language, and the depth that they go into are extremely helpful and eye-opening.That said, this book is not intended for absolute beginners. Right off the bat he starts discussing things from N4 and N3 grammar, like giving/receiving, causative, passive, "as", honorifics, etc.My biggest complaint about this

A great little collection of funny, useful essays about various Japanese grammar points. I think this book deserves a space on most Japanese learners' bookshelf because it is easy to read, unlike many grammar books out there (not that these aren't necessary as well). It's a different way to approach some of the troublesome aspects of the language and may help one reach the hah-ah moment they were waiting for.Losing one star only due to the examples being in romaji and therefore quite hard to

It was like reading a textbook except this one had several really funny parts. It, reexplaines some old grammar, mentiones new things and teaches interesting approach to translation of long sentences from Japanese to English at the very end. Certainly handy.Also, the subconscious 'Look, Mum, I'm reading Japanese/Russian/English!!!' explains so much about why I love some books more than their Czech equivalents, but why would I ever give up this joy?

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