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ISBN. 9784480814968. The Fall of Language in the Age of English (日本語が亡びるとき 英語の世紀の中で, Nihongo ga Horobiru Toki: Eigo no Seiki no Naka de) is a Japanese non-fiction book by novelist Minae Mizumura. First published in 2008, the book argues that the Japanese language and Japanese literature are in decline, in part ...
Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper ( folium) in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet . In double-sided printing, each leaf has two pages – front and back. In modern books, the physical sheets of paper are stacked and folded in ...
This course is designed for those at a higher-intermediate to lower-advanced level of fluency in Japanese to amplify their reading proficiency through a detailed grammatical analysis of the text. Although adequate knowledge of both vocabulary and grammar is essential for text understanding, it has been noted that in foreign-language learning ...
Japanese Historical Text Initiative. Japanese Historical Text Initiative ( JHTI) is a searchable online database of Japanese historical documents and English translations. It is part of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. [1]
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Classical Japanese. The classical Japanese language ( 文語, bungo, "literary language"), also called "old writing" (古文, kobun) and sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese", is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–1989). It is based on Early Middle Japanese, the language ...
Jay Rubin (born 1941) is an American translator, writer, scholar and Japanologist. He is one of the main translators of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami into English. He has also written a guide to Japanese, Making Sense of Japanese (originally titled Gone Fishin'), and a biographical literary analysis of Murakami.
Traffic safety slogan signs in Kin, Okinawa, written in Japanese (center) and Okinawan (left and right).. The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kutuba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan (/ l uː ˈ tʃ uː ə n /), are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the ...