| SUMMARY | Katakana Lesson 4, Page 133:
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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)n | zoon '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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