Making Sense Of Japanese: What The Textbooks Don't Tell You Condition:Like New Publication Date: 01 Oct 2000

Publication Date: 01 Oct 2000

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016

Author: Jane Costello

of individuals who live in slavery

Is what we believe always the truth

Making Sense Of Japanese: What The Textbooks Don't Tell You Condition:Like New Publication Date: 01 Oct 2000Making 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