Japanese beyond Words: How to Walk and Talk like a Native Speaker
- Book Review,
by Andrew Horvat
-Donald Richie, for The Japan Times
"Instructive and entertaining." -Donald Richie, for The Japan Times
Review
"Andrew Horvat has written a witty, intelligent, and practical guide to one of the world's less practical languages and the culture behind it." -Edward Seidensticker, Professor Emeritus of Japanese, Columbia University
Book Description
Wearing a coat indoors is bad; slurping your soup is good. In an entertaining, anecdotal style, Japanese Beyond Words takes you into the nonverbal skill zones you've got to master to communicate effectively in Japanese. The Japanese converse in gestures, pauses, verbal flourishes, and cultural clues that Westerners are rarely taught in classrooms. You'll learn the ins and outs of polite/rude speech, bowing, disagreeing (without starting a war), intonation, apologies, talking without pronouns, circumlocution, slang, and much more. Students, business travelers, and tourists will find practical information on how to make their Japanese sound more natural, while those interested in language and culture will find these discussions fascinating... beyond words.
About the Author
A Tokyo-based writer and broadcaster for many years, Andrew Horvat has been a fellow at the National Foreign Language Center in Washington D.C., at Stanford University's Center for East Asian Studies, and at Simon Fraser University's David Lam Centre for International Communication. He is a member of the Japan Foundation's advisory committee on the teaching of Japanese as a second language.
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