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

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.