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This will allow you to view all non-English characters and colored text in this book.—Tuttle Publishing  \nLearn to Avoid Common ( and Embarrassing!) Mistakes  \nAKIRA MIURA  \nProfessor of Japanese, Emeritus University of Wisconsin, Madison  \nForeword by Wesley Jacobsen  \nHarvard University  \nTUTTLE Publishing Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore  \nPublished by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.  \n[www.tuttlepublishing.com](www.tuttlepublishing.com)  \nCopyright © 1983, 2002, 2011 by Akira Miura Foreword copyright © 2011 by Wesley Jacobsen  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nMiura, Akira, 1927–  \nEssential japanese vocabulary : learn to avoid common (and embarassing!) mistakes /  \nby Akira Miura : foreword by Wesley Jacobsen.  \n;[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN: 978-1-4629-0096-1 (ebook)  \n1. Japanese language—Conversation and phrase books—English. 2. Japanese language—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. I. Title.  \nPL539.M48 2011  \n495.6' 83421--dc22  \n2010027441  \nDistributed by  \nNorth America, Latin America & Japan Asia Pacific  \nEurope Tuttle Publishing Berkeley Books Pte. 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Shinagawa-ku Tel: (65) 6280-1330  \nTel: 1 (802) 773-8930 Tokyo 141 0032 Fax: (65) 6280-6290  \nFax: 1 (802) 773-6993 Tel: (81) 3 5437-0171 [inquiries@periplus.com.sg](inquiries@periplus.com.sg)[ ](inquiries@periplus.com.sg)[info@tuttlepublishing.com](info@tuttlepublishing.com) Fax: (81) 3 5437-0755 [www.periplus.com](www.periplus.com)  \n[www.tuttlepublishing.com](www.tuttlepublishing.com) [sales@tuttle.co.jp](sales@tuttle.co.jp)  \n[www.tuttle.co.jp](www.tuttle.co.jp)  \n15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in Singapore  \nTUTTLE PUBLISHING® is a registered trademark of Tuttle Publishing, a division of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.  \nCONTENTS  \nForeword  \nPreface  \nExplanatory Notes  \nWords A–Z  \nBibliography  \nIndex: Japanese–English  \nEnglish–Japanese  \nForeword  \nAs most adult learners can attest, classroom study is by itself rarely enough to gain true proficiency in a second language. Time spent outside the classroom using the language in the real world is crucial to the process of trial and error that allows one gradually, sometimes unconsciously, to adjust one’s knowledge of the language to match more and more closely the knowledge of native speakers. The valuable feedback one gets in this process of trial and error can come at the cost of some pain, but pain that can be relieved with laughter. This is illustrated by the experience of an American having lived a short time in Japan who, unable to bear any longer the constant staring he was subjected to in public, burst out on a crowded train,“Jirojiro miru na. Watashi datte ninjin da yo,” intending to say, “Stop staring! I’m a human too,” but in the process mixing up ningen “human” with ninjin“carrot.”  \nJapanese language teachers are often asked what it is about Japanese that poses the greatest difficulty for native English speakers. Various characteristics of Japanese are typically given in answer to this question. Its grammar is, at least at first glance, quite different from English, putting verbs last in a sentence rather than immediately after the subject, conjugating verbs into long, sometimes complex forms, and marking nouns with particles that distinguish subtly different shades of meaning. 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