Unlocking Japanese

Author : Paul Noble
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008421889
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unlocking Japanese with Paul Noble written by Paul Noble and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever tried to learn Japanese and found it too hard? Bestselling language coach Paul Noble has a quick and easy way to get you back on track with his unique tried-and-tested method.

Author : Jay Rubin
Publisher : Vertical Inc
ISBN 13 : 1568366086
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Japanese written by Jay Rubin and published by Vertical Inc. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Author : Cure Dolly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539485506
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unlocking Japanese written by Cure Dolly and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every student of Japanese-and perhaps more importantly, every teacher of Japanese-should read this small book." "Is there a dark conspiracy among schools and textbooks to make Japanese seem far more complicated than it really is? Of course not. But there might as well be." So begins this ground-breaking book that sets out to demonstrate that Japanese is "simple, logical and beautiful" and that most of the apparently "arbitrary rules" that you "just have to learn" can be reduced to simple, easily intuitive patterns if you just understand how the language really works. The problem is that Japanese is continually described in terms that fit English and other European languages. This prevents us from seeing Japanese as it really is and often creates a sense of vagueness and guesswork and the illusion of multiple irregularities and exceptions. In fact, there is nothing vague about Japanese, and it has (unlike most languages) very few irregularities. It is extremely precise, economical and elegant. What is needed is a model that allows us to see Japanese on its own terms rather than trying to describe it in terms of European languages - an enterprise akin to doing electronics with a kitchen knife. Building on the pioneering work of Dr. Jay Rubin, Cure Dolly provides the foundation of a new model for understanding Japanese. One that does not involve difficult terminology or abstruse concepts, but allows us to see Japanese in easy, commonsense terms. An ambitious claim? The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Applying Cure Dolly's methods, we do indeed gain a clear, intuitive grasp of many things that seemed complex or confusing before. This is not a massive tome, but a short book, whose aim is not to deliver hundreds of Japanese grammatical fish, but to show the reader how to fish for herself. It is not aimed at the absolute beginner. The reader should know at least a little basic grammar. But arming oneself with these concepts at an early stage in Japanese will make everything much easier. However, even advanced students can benefit from these eye-opening techniques that really do help to unlock the simple elegance of Japanese. Cure Dolly is co-founder and editor of the KawaJapa Japanese-learning website.

Author : Steve Thenell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997222302
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kanji No Satori written by Steve Thenell and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many students of Japanese find learning kanji to be the hardest part of mastering the language. Not just the characters themselves, but also how they are used, seems quite complicated and mysterious.This book is designed to clear up that mystery, giving the kanji learner insight into what is really going on with the characters, and most importantly, building a solid foundation for learning, that makes mastering thousands of characters not seem like an impossible task.The book thoroughly covers the way that the characters were created, and also how they are used in the writing of the Japanese language, and is a great asset to any student of Japanese.

Author : Kentetsu Takamori
Publisher : Ichimannendo Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780979047152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unlocking Tannisho written by Kentetsu Takamori and published by Ichimannendo Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Japanese by Ichimannendo Publishing under the title of Tannisho wo hiraku, 2008"--T.p. verso.

Author : Richard John Bowring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521548878
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Modern Japanese: Volume 1, Grammar Lessons written by Richard John Bowring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume introduction to written and spoken Japanese, comprising fifty-two lessons with exercises and vocabularies.

Author : Nancy Singleton Hachisu
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449418295
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Farm Food written by Nancy Singleton Hachisu and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of Japanese recipes; discusses the ingredients, techniques, and equipment required for home cooking; and relates the author's experiences living on a farm in Japan for the past twenty-three years.

Author : Akihiko Yoshida
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512062
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II written by Akihiko Yoshida and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily from Japanese sources and American wartime intercepts of secret Japanese radio messages, a noted American naval historian and a Japanese mariner painstakingly recorded and evaluated a diverse array of material about Japan's submarines in World War II. The study begins with the development of the first Japanese 103-ton Holland-type submergible craft in 1905 and continues through the 1945 surrender of the largest submarine in the world at the time, the 5300-ton I-400 class that carried three airplanes. Submarine weapons, equipment, personnel, and shore support systems are discussed first in the context of Japanese naval preparations for war and later during the war. Both successes and missed opportunities are analyzed in operations ranging from the California coast through the Pacific and Indian Oceans to the coast of German-occupied France. Appendixes include lists of Japanese submarine losses and the biographies of key Japanese submarine officers. Rare illustrations and specifically commissioned operational maps enhance the text.

Author : Cure Dolly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781973719052
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice in Kanji Land written by Cure Dolly and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines the cute and crazy world of Alice in Wonderland with a scientific method of learning (SRS) to introduce you to a wide range of basic kanji (all first-year Japanese school kanji, all JLPT N5 kanji). You'll learn how kanji are constructed, how they fit together to make bigger words, how they are pronounced, and much more, in a form that makes them uniquely memorable-a story in which the kanji themselves are characters and adventures.

Author : Scott Haas
Publisher : Hachette Go
ISBN 13 : 073828551X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Be Happy? written by Scott Haas and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful and practical guide to ukeireru, the Japanese principle of acceptance, offers a path to well-being and satisfaction for the anxious and exhausted. Looking for greater peace and satisfaction? Look no further than the Japanese concept of ukeireru, or acceptance. Psychologist Scott Haas offers an elegant, practical, and life-changing look at ways we can reduce anxiety and stress and increase overall well-being. By learning and practicing ukeireru, you can: Profoundly improve your relationships, with a greater focus on listening, finding commonalities, and intuiting Find calm in ritualizing things such as making coffee, drinking tea, and even having a cocktail Embrace the importance of baths and naps Show respect for self and others, which has a remarkably calming effect on everyone Learn to listen more than you talk Tidy up your life by downsizing experiences and relationships that offer more stress than solace Cultivate practical ways of dealing with anger, fear, and arguments -- the daily tensions that take up so much of our lives By practicing acceptance, we learn to pause, take in the situation, and then deciding on a course of action that reframes things. Why Be Happy? Discover a place of contentment and peace in this harried world.