| SUMMARY | Katakana Lesson 4, Page 133: Summary 5 |
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| All About Particles (Power Japanese). |
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| Romanized: | may correspond to English: | as in: | | n/ (or before a vowel) | nzoon 'zone' | | In this list the symbol / represents word-final position. | ngu or ngu oo r s s (before e) s (before i) | ng or l th ch s | kingu 'king' pooku 'pork' hoteru 'hotel' sumisu 'Smith' sero 'cello' siin 'scene' | | S before i more closely corresponds to English 'sh'. | | t (before i) | t | tiimu 'team' | | T before i more closely corresponds to English 'ch'. |
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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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