| NOTES | Katakana Lesson 3, Page 073:
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| All About Particles (Power Japanese). |
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| The following additional procedures will help identify Japanese loanwords that occur in this lesson. | | 5. | Is there an occurrence of t before u? The t may represent the closest English equivalent - i.e., 'ts' as in 'tsetse' - but more commonly it corresponds to the initial consonant of English 'too'.
| Examples: | pootumasu = 'Portsmouth' | | tuu = 'two' | | suutu = 'suit' | | omuretu = 'omelet' |
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| "...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. |
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