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.
This was site view 12,772 of our new website at joyo96.org
When the vowel of the consonant + y + vowel syllable is lengthened, the symbol indicating length is written in line with the symbols of regular size. Thus:
ニュー nyuu 'new'
Note that the consonant + y + vowel combination may be immediately preceded or followed by reduced ツ, indicating consonant lengthening. Thus:
ネールポリッシュ ショッピング
Examples: チャド チャッド キューバ ヒューロン シャンハイ
neeruporissyu 'nail polish' syoppingu 'shopping'
tyado or tyaddo 'Chad' kyuuba 'Cuba' hyuuron 'Huron' syanhai 'Shanghai'
"...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.
