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Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's Classics) |
Author: Jay Rubin
Published: 2002-03-01 |
List price: $16.00
Our price: $10.88
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Customer comments on this selection.
 More To Japanese Than Just The Lanuage
Seen too many books about how to learn a language that were aimed at foreign exchange students? This book helps you learn to make sense of the Japanese language by also mentioning Japanese culture.
Making Sense of Japanese really Made Japanese Made More Sense
I've been studying Japanese on and off for quite a couple of years now, and this book addressed many of my concerns and confusions that I had when studying the language. The author made the "subjectless sentence" so much easier to comprehend and understand that it will become extremely useful when intermediate to advance Japanese learners are trying to read literature materials.
Some may complain that the Japanese are writen in Romaji in this book, but the amount of Japanese examples are quite minimal (yet sufficient), so it didn't bother me much in this particular book.
I would definately recommend this book to everyone who is studying Japanese. It may not make much sense to beginners, but it would, eventually, be a lot of help when they become intermediate/advanced students of the language.
How did I miss this the first time?
I picked this up some time ago, and let it lie in the 'incoming' stack for far too long.
I now consider this to be one of the best pocket-sized books on Japanese.
In particular, the coverage of 'pronouns', as well as 'wa vs. ga' is the best I have read anywhere.
If you have ever paused while deciding whether to say or in a particular situation, buy this book and wonder no more.
If you have read a textbook that called Japanese 'vague', sell it and use the money to buy this.
 Making Sense of Japanese
This book had many interesting and useful information, however, as for ease of use, I found it to be too chaotic. It may help to put it into another format.
Greasing the transition from intermediate to advanced...
This book is lots of fun. Rubin is witty, his turns of phrase are memorable, and overall the book will certainly put a smile on your face.
It's only useful once you've been studying Japanese for a couple of years, though.
Before then, it'll go over your head.
I mean, I can only wish for the day when figuring out the passive-causative is the biggest problem I have in Japanese. I bet this book will be all kinds of useful that day, but I'm sure not there yet.
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