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Chargement... Fifty Soundspar Polly Barton
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Such an interesting and different book! Inspiring for anyone trying to learn a language by completely immersing themselves in the culture. Happy to have gained this perspective through the author’s experiences. ( ) I made it 9% through this book before abandoning it. I couldn't take the crude, vulgar sexual references. Not to mention, I wanted to read a book on translation and culture, and it didn't seem like that's what this was. The writing 'style' (if you can call it that) of the author was atrocious. I don't even remember anything I read in that first bit, because it was so pointless. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: "It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover." Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator but fluent in one of the most difficult vernaculars in the world. From min-min, the sound of air screaming, to hi'sori, the sound of harboring masochist tendencies, Barton renders these foreign sounds to reflect on the meaning of being an outsider, cultural conformity, and even the transformative philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. A classic in the making, Fifty Sounds unearths the distinctly human act of learning to communicate and think in a new way"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)495.68Language Other Languages Languages of East & Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese - School books, texts for learning the languageClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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