Mastering Japanese, 10 Compact Disks and fast-paced Textbook. Based on Eleanor Jordan's Yale University curriculum, this program does not lend itself to laziness, but is for those interested in well designed, but tough audio drills.
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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 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'
"...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.
