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Making sense of Japanese : what the textbooks don't tell you / Jay Rubin.

by Rubin, Jay, 1941-

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New York, N.Y. : Kodansha USA, 2012.

Japanese language -- Usage.

Japanese language -- Grammar.

Japanese language -- Terms and phrases.

9781568364926 (paperback) :

156836492X (paperback)

135 pages ; 19 cm

First US edition.

"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 ..." --Publisher description.

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