Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow by Kakuko Shoji

Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow by Kakuko Shoji

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; after all, it is downright impossible to speak properly without them. There is also a discussion of linking nouns and noun phrases, not to speak of verbs and verb phrases. The book goes on to devote a whole chapter to common mistakes and troublesome usages. The final chapter attempts to pin down some particularly slippery locutions: such as toshite, imada ni, sore kara, whoppers like Sentence A-te sae inakereba, Sentence B, and many more.

Any beginning or intermediate student, having spent a certain amount of time and energy studying this book, will be able to speak and read Japanese in a much more coherent fashion.

KAKUKO SHOJI has been an instructor of Japanese at the University of Hawaii since 1968, and is the author of Basic Connections and Japanese Core Words and Phrases (both published by Kodansha International). Shoji was also the supervising editor of Kodansha's Effective Japanese Usage Guide.

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ISBN 13	9784770028600
ISBN 10	4770028601
Title	Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow
Author	Kakuko Shoji
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kodansha America, Inc
Year published	2002-07-03
Number of pages	160
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