
Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow
Making Your Japanese Flow
Kakuko Shoji(Author)
Kodansha America, Inc (Publisher)
Published on 3. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-56836-421-6 (ISBN)
Description
Basic Connections provides basic information about expressions and usages that facilitate the flow of ideas and thoughts in written and spoken Japanese. It explains how words and phrases dovetail, how clauses pair up with other clauses, how sentences come together to create harmonious paragraphs. Since this is a book about the basics it starts with the fundamentals, explaining first the two types of Japanese sentence-A is B' and 'A does B.' Then it proceeds to the problem of the modifier and the modified-a matter of 'which is which.' Wa and ga naturally get considerable play;'
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 183 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
226 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56836-421-6 (9781568364216)
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Kakuko Shoji
Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow
Book
07/2002
Kodansha International Ltd
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KAKUKO SHOJI, a resident of Honolulu, is a longtime instructor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is the author of Japanese Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary and Kodansha's Effective Japanese Usage Dictionary: A Concise Explanation of Frequently Confused Words and Phrases.