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	Japanese Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's Classics) by Kakuko Shoji
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 495 EAN 9784770027740 ISBN 4770027745 Manufacturer Kodansha International Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 131 Publication Date September 04, 2001 Publisher Kodansha International Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description Some Japanese words and phrases, even though they lie at the core of the language, forever elude the student's grasp. They are not explained satisfactorily in dictionaries or textbooks for the simple reason that they cannot be conveniently defined. Japanese Core Words and Phrases brings these recalcitrants to bay. The book is divided into two parts, each of which is arranged in alphabetical order. The first part is devoted to words indicating physical as well as psychological distance--roughly equivalent to 'this,' 'that,' 'that over there,' and 'where,' but quite different in usage. Physical distance is covered in most textbooks, but psychological distance--every student's nemesis--is not. The second part of the book covers a variety of idiomatic expressions, many of which appear in Japanese proficiency tests. Each entry word or phrase is not simply explained but exemplified in sentence form, clarifying its meaning (in the case of many students) for the very first time. Japanese Core Words and Phrases has a great deal to offer the beginning student and much to offer the intermediate student. Little more can be asked of a book on the Japanese language. Previously published in the Power Japanese series as Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary. Some Japanese words and phrases, even though they lie at the core of the language, forever elude the student's grasp. They are not explained satisfactorily in dictionaries or textbooks for the simple reason that they cannot be conveniently defined. Japanese Core Words and Phrases brings these recalcitrants to bay. The book is divided into two parts, each of which is arranged in alphabetical order. The first part is devoted to words indicating physical as well as psychological distance--roughly equivalent to 'this,' 'that,' 'that over there,' and 'where,' but quite different in usage. Physical distance is covered in most textbooks, but psychological distance--every student's nemesis--is not. The second part of the book covers a variety of idiomatic expressions, many of which appear in Japanese proficiency tests. Each entry word or phrase is not simply explained but exemplified in sentence form, clarifying its meaning (in the case of many students) for the very first time. Japanese Core Words and Phrases has a great deal to offer the beginning student and much to offer the intermediate student. Little more can be asked of a book on the Japanese language. Previously published in the Power Japanese series as Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary. Kakuko Shoji, a resident of Honolulu, is a longtime instructor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is the author of Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow and Kodansha's Effective Japanese Usage Dictionary: A Concise Explanation of Frequently Confused Words and Phrases. PREFACE [slightly abridged] Students of Japanese often say that Japanese is difficult to learn because of kanji, and it is certainly true that kanji present a formidable obstacle to beginning students. But once students have gained some facility with the language, most realize that kanji are not the only problem. At the intermediate or advanced level, what is required are means of expression that are culturally textured and contextually interwoven, which I imagine is true of any foreign language. At this stage, not only must students increase their general vocabulary and store of idiomatic expressions, but also realize that previously learned words and phrases must be transformed from locutions that are simple and fixed in meaning into ones that are multidimensional and many-layered. This book is an effort to help students do precisely that. In my previous book in the Power Japanese series, Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow, I took up relatively basic problems that my students often had trouble with in the classroom. In this book, I have chosen to treat issues that often appear in textbooks and other publications for intermediate and advanced students, such as sentence structure, idiomatic usage, and conjunctions. In particular, I have focused on expressions, such as ko-so-a-do words, whose meaning changes radically according to context. Further, I have made an effort to include problems that appear in the second and third levels of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.... Kakuko Shoji 1999 Customers who bought this item also bought Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's Classics) Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's Classics) The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs (Kodansha's Children's Classics) Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication: A Self-Study Course and Reference All About Particles: A Handbook of Japanese Function Words (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's Classics) Customer Reviews for: Japanese Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's Classics) Rating - Great and useful for anyone really wanted to know Japanese If you aren't serious about learning Japanese, I don't advise getting this book. However, if you are thoroughly interested in becoming fluent, this is the book for you. This isn't slang--this is real life, everyday Japanese that almost anyone can use--and everyone DOES use it! The book has it's share of informal phrases, but so many of them can be used in formal and informal situations. This isn't all about idioms, it's about real-life conversational ... Read More Rating - An Excellent Aid for the Intermediate Student This little book provides a guide to many important Japanese words and phrases that are difficult to find in a dictionary. The explanations are straightforward, and it provides sufficient examples (although more would be better). I find this book very helpful, and have gone back to it again and again for the better part of a year. I suspect I will keep it around for some time to come. Not bad for 131 pages. A couple of warnings, however: ... Read More Rating - good ol' koudansha Well, as the title so boldly states you WILL find things in this little gem that you wouldn't find in just any dictionary(although you might want to try eiwa-waei dictionaries aimed at native japanese speakers if you've reached a certain level of proficiency). I do have one gripe, though. Why can't language guide publishers be more careful when it comes to typo's?They've even misspelled the name of the author on page 3(dai6satsuhakkou).Who is "Kazuko ... Read More Rating - Wish I'd bought this sooner! This book really is excellent in every way. I'm an intermediate/advanced japanese student, although I mainly study on my own these days. Because of that, I needed something to teach me some of the little things that are difficult to find in a book, yet are a big part of the language, and this book does that. It has a HUGE list of Japanese idioms, set phrases, and similar grammatical tools that are absolutely integral to the Japanese language, and I often ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Kakuko Shoji

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