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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 a long e vowel This may represent English 'y' + diphthong as well as the more usual correspondence without the 'y'.
Example:
eeru = 'ale' or 'Yale'
Japanese i before e may also correspond to English 'y' preceding the 'e' vowel, as in 'yes', 'yet', etc.
Examples:
iesu = 'yes'
iesumañ = 'yes-man'
"...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.
