{"product_id":"making-sense-of-japanese-what-the-textbooks-dont-tell-you-9784770028020","title":"Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaking Sense of Japanese is the fruit of one foolhardy Americans 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  \"Im still pretty sure that Japanese is not vague. Or at least  its not as vague as it used to be. Probably.\"  The notorious \"subjectless sentence\" of Japanese comes under close scrutiny in Part One. A sentence cant 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 Rubins 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276672786485,"sku":"ByrdShop_4770028024","price":65.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9784770028020.jpg?v=1780559932","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/making-sense-of-japanese-what-the-textbooks-dont-tell-you-9784770028020","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}