Learning Japanese is a challenge. And, as many students find out, memorizing sentence patterns, vocabulary, and lists of kanji doesn't necessarily make it easy to communicate with Japanese people. Barriers of culture and social etiquette can be just as difficult to overcome as problems of grammar. And until now, these aspects of learning to communicate with a new culture could only be learned first hand by trial and error.
Japanese Beyond Words was written to fill this gap, giving you the tools you need to effectively communicate in Japanese, with the Japanese. If you want to become truly competent in Japanese, you will need to know about:
what your clothes say about you business cards, and why you should be nice to them when and how to bow shoes: they're on, they're off, they're on, they're off what's expected of foreigners (that means you) circumlocution without dizziness pronunciation ("read my lips," just doesn't cut it) how to say no without saying "no" social uses of politeness . . . and rudeness behavior at parties and other social gatherings English in Japanese, and Japanese in English the differences between men and women (you don't know as much as you think)
Long-time Japan resident Andrew Horvat presents these and many, many more topics through a wealth of experience, research, and anecdote. Entertaining, opinionated, as well as educational, Japanese Beyond Words will help you to walk, talk, slurp, and bow your way to cultural (as well as linguistic) fluency in Japanese.
A Tokyo-based writer and broadcaster for many years, Andrew Horvat has been a fellow at the National Foreign Language Center in Washington DC (1997), at Stanford University's Center for East Asian Studies (1994/95), and at Simon Fraser University's David Lam Centre for International Communication (1990). His research into the increased international use of the Japanese language was supported in 1994/95 by the Abe Shintaro Fund. He is a member of the Japan Foundation's advisory committee on the teaching of Japanese as a second language.

Japanese Beyond Words: How to Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker

History

Horvat, Andrew

Asia

Stone Bridge Press

This new edition of Japanese Beyond Words takes the language student into the nonverbal skill zones that must be mastered to communicate effectively in Japanese. Now with an index and expanded chapters, it outlines the ins and outs of polite/rude speech, bowing, disagreeing, intonation, apologies, slang, preconceptions of foreigners, and much more. Andrew Horvat lives in Tokyo. Formerly a reporter for the Associated Press, Tokyo correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and Tokyo Bureau Chief for American Public Radio, he is now a visiting professor at Tokyo Keizai University and lecturer at Showa Women’s University, where he teaches courses on cross-cultural communication and language policy.

Japanese Beyond Words: The Gaijin's Guide to Verbal Skills and Cultural Clues (Japanese and English Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Stone Bridge Pr

Adding to the core essays on language usage, Andrew Horvat's new edition includes sections on proverbs, "zeitgeist" words, puns, youth language, current slang, and regional dialects, plus profiles of famous fluent non-Japanese. An excellent classroom supplement and an entertaining guide to the interplay of words and behavior. Andrew Horvat directs Stanford University's overseas studies program in Kyoto, Japan.

Japanese Beyond Words: The Gaijin's Guide to Verbal Skills and Cultural Clues (Japanese Edition)

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