false 788431 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg "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.]]> 788431 2 774420 1998 Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You total:28|5:11|4:13|3:2|2:2|1:0| 28 117 55 10 7306 4.22 15739 1943 75110103 2364740 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 5 0 false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 06:05:44 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 06:15:52 -0700 2009 1
Essentially split into two halve...more...]]> 44543710 995574 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 5 0 false Tue Jan 27 13:18:10 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 15:29:15 -0800 2009 Wind-Up Bird, so I already knew he was amazing/brilliant/etc. What I didn't know is that he's also hilarious. Nice surprise, that.

The subtitle of this book is a little misleading. "What the Textbooks Don't Tell You" brings to mind a guide to Japanese sla...more...]]> 38511639 171770 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 4 0 false Mon Nov 24 01:33:35 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 01:46:24 -0800 2008 twice I...more...]]> 57124588 101061 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 4 0 false Sat May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 22:57:44 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 23:09:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 44758860 1193717 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Thu Jan 29 10:09:41 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 10:10:54 -0800 2009
I would also recommend it to anyone interested in Language in General. It provides some interesting insight to the English language from the Japanese Language perspective.]]> 75539807 2794644 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 5 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 23 17:46:33 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 20:40:52 -0700 2009 72322297 864515 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Thu Sep 24 05:30:45 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 05:31:30 -0700 2009 46293945 1539516 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 5 0 false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 13 21:08:33 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 21:05:57 -0700 2009 .5
I wish I could take this guy's class. He's so sassy and delightful. It's a rare teacher that makes le...more...]]> 17055561 744008 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 4 0 false Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 02:42:18 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 02:47:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 30438052 1282429 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 2 0 false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 05:23:17 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 06:18:31 -0700 2008 And one thing, why use romaji in such a intermediate book? That really doesn't make any sense whatsoever.]]> 79841178 3007900 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Thu Dec 03 23:25:04 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 23:25:04 -0800 2009 79292697 1388792 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Sun Nov 29 09:52:41 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 09:52:48 -0800 2009 78401427 2963207 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 5 0 false Fri Nov 20 00:17:55 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 00:17:55 -0800 2009 78292472 1104924 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Thu Nov 19 01:43:58 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 01:43:58 -0800 2009 77526697 2932900 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Thu Nov 12 03:11:48 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 03:11:48 -0800 2009 77225853 1475615 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Mon Nov 09 12:07:43 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 12:07:43 -0800 2009 77002050 2480307 4583466 4770023103 9784770023100 0 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese : What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4583466.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 0.0 0 No, Japanese is not the language of the infinite. Japanese is not even vague. The people of Sony and Toyota did not get where they are today by wafting incense back and forth. The Japanese speak and write to each other as other literate people do. If Japanese is "unique," that is because it possesses vocabulary and grammatical constructions and idioms that occur in no other language--but of course that is what makes all languages unique.

Undeniably, Japanese is different from English. The language is different, the people are different, the society is different, and all of these are enormously interesting precisely for that reason.... A Japanese sentence, with its verb coming at the end, is not only backwards but upside-down.... But we must never let its apparent strangeness blind us to the simple fact that Japanese is just another language. And we can increase the precision with which we understand that language if we do away with some of the nonsense that continues to cling to it even in the age of the computer and electric nose-hair trimmer.

[Previously published as "Gone Fishin'"; now with a new chapter on upside-down sentences.]

]]> 1998 0 0 false Sat Nov 07 07:42:58 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 07:42:58 -0800 2009 67895593 1258974 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Tue Aug 18 10:12:14 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 10:12:14 -0700 2009 67038255 1361787 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Tue Aug 11 22:49:36 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 22:49:36 -0700 2009 66429109 2600848 788431 4770028024 9784770028020 10 <![CDATA[Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208m/788431.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178359208s/788431.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788431.Making_Sense_of_Japanese_What_the_Textbooks_Don_t_Tell_You 4.18 28 "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.]]> 1998 0 0 false Thu Aug 06 09:42:43 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 23:17:16 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=788431