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The following additional procedures will help identify Japanese loanwords that occur in this lesson.
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The consonant z before i , already identified as corresponding to the initial consonant of English 'jeep', 'zebra', and 'these', and the medial consonant of 'Asia', may also represent the initial consonant of English 'deep'.
Example:
sauziarabia = 'Saudi Arabia'
"...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.
