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The following additional procedures will help identify Japanese loanwords that occur in this lesson.
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Is there an occurence of s before e? The s in this environment may represent the initial consonant of English 'Chet', but more usually, of 'set'.
Examples:
sero = 'cello'
seroteepu = 'cello[phane] tape'
Similarly, z (the voiced equivalent of s ) before e may represent the voiced initial consonant of English 'jet', but more usually, of 'zero'.
Examples:
zerii = 'jelly'
zero = 'zero'
"...one-fourth of all the characters used in modern Japanese occur in three-fourths of all the most frequently occurring words. This means that by concentrating on learning approximately 500 select characters, the student is assured of being able to read 75% of all the high-frequency words he will encounter in modern literature." - The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power.
