Author : Paul Noble
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0008421889
Ever tried to learn Japanese and found it too hard? Bestselling language coach Paul Noble has a quick and easy way to get you back on track with his unique tried-and-tested method.
Author : Jay Rubin
Publisher : Vertical Inc
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1568366086
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.
Author : Michelle Haney Brown
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2012-11-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1462913474
My First Book of Japanese Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Japanese language and culture through everyday words. The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Japanese language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Japanese Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Japanese speech, to introduce core elements of Japanese culture, to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages. Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Kanji (when applicable), Kana, and Romanized form (Romaji). With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the 125 million people worldwide that speak Japanese!
Author : Steve Thenell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2015-09-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780997222302
Many students of Japanese find learning kanji to be the hardest part of mastering the language. Not just the characters themselves, but also how they are used, seems quite complicated and mysterious.This book is designed to clear up that mystery, giving the kanji learner insight into what is really going on with the characters, and most importantly, building a solid foundation for learning, that makes mastering thousands of characters not seem like an impossible task.The book thoroughly covers the way that the characters were created, and also how they are used in the writing of the Japanese language, and is a great asset to any student of Japanese.
Author : 松田権六
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Lacquer and lacquering
ISBN : 9784866580609
Urushi, Japanese lacquerware, is perhaps the oldest and most sublime of all the Japanese arts and crafts. Its history goes back more than 7,000 years and it is still vibrantly alive in the twenty-first century. It is practiced by craftsmen working in time-honored techniques and by modern artists forging the future. Valued for its utilitarian durability, Urushi developed into an incomparable art, adorning a objects from luxurious palaces, to lavish murals, to exquisitely crafted fountain pens. This book includes some fifty full-color illustrations of masterpieces honored by history and works by the author himself.--adapted from publisher's description.
Author : Cure Dolly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2017-11-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781973719052
This book combines the cute and crazy world of Alice in Wonderland with a scientific method of learning (SRS) to introduce you to a wide range of basic kanji (all first-year Japanese school kanji, all JLPT N5 kanji). You'll learn how kanji are constructed, how they fit together to make bigger words, how they are pronounced, and much more, in a form that makes them uniquely memorable-a story in which the kanji themselves are characters and adventures.
Author : Jon Woronoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 134912561X
A study of how industrial policy and targeting accelerated Japanese economic development and affected the rest of the world. This book considers who targeted industries, how they were chosen and what techniques were used to support them. It examines both theory and practice of targeting.
Author : Malcolm Trevor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781903350027
This controversial study examines Japan's 'economic nationalism' which forms the basis of central government policy, i.e. the system in which business and politics are inseparable and which impacts on Japan's relations with the world.
Author : Theodore William Goossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192803727
Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.
Author : Todd Geers
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1462910270
Making Out in Japanese is a fun, accessible and thorough Japanese phrase book and guide to the Japanese language as it's really spoken. Sugoku suki! Mata aeru?--(I'm crazy about you! Shall we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Japanese, and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting someone's feelings or getting a slap! Japanese classes and textbooks tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious scenarios, but chances are while in Japan you will spend a lot more time trying to make new friends or start new romances--something you may not be prepared for. If you are a student, businessman or tourist traveling to Japan and would like to have an authentic and meaningful experience, the key is being able to speak like a local. This friendly and easy-to-use Japanese phrasebook makes this possible. Making Out in Japanese has been updated and expanded to be even more helpful as a guide to modern colloquial Japanese for use in everyday informal interactions--giving access to the sort of catchy Japanese expressions that aren't covered in traditional language materials. As well as the Romanized forms (romanji), each expression is now given in authentic Japanese script (kanji and kana with furigana pronunciation clues), so that in the case of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with. This Japanese phrasebook includes: A guide to pronouncing Japanese words correctly. Explanations of basic Japanese grammar, such as intonation, word stress, and particles. A guide to male and female usage. Romanized forms of words and phrases (romanji). Complete Japanese translations including Japanese characters (kanji) and the Japanese alphabet (kana). Useful and interesting notes on Japanese language and culture. Lots of colorful, fun and useful expressions not covered in other phrasebooks. Titles in this unique series of bestselling phrase books include: Making Out in Chinese, Making Out in Indonesian, Making Out in Thai, Making Out in Korean, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Japanese, Making Out in Vietnamese, Making Out in Burmese, Making Out in Tagalog, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Arabic, Making Out in English, More Making Out in Korean, and More Making Out in Japanese.
