Eleanor Harz Jorden and Hamako Ito Chaplin recommend reading the first 10 chapters of Beginning JapanesePart 1 & Part 2 as it is coordinated with Reading Japanese. There is also an Audio Cassette you can buy which comes with the book.
This was site view 12,767 of our new website at joyo96.org
The following are lists of katakana loanwords and loan-phrases that appeared in three seperate articles in well-known Japanese publications. Contemporary foreign personal names, as well as traditional Japanese words written in katakana in these particular articles for special effect, have been omitted.
The following items occurred within a one-page sports article concerning Japanese mothers of children who are being pushed as prospective swimming champions. It appeared in a popular Japanese weekly magazine that includes articles on a wide variety of subjects.
"...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.
