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Instant Vocabulary

Postby Belton » January 8th, 2007 10:42 am

This is a listing of frequent English loanwords in Japanese.
The aim is to make learning English easier for Japanese students but the inverse should be true.
Of course the Japanese have a unique way of pronouncing them and have sometimes changed the meaning but the shared vocabulary makes for an interesting starting point.

http://iteslj.org/lists/Daulton-BasewordVocabulary.html

I'm sure I came across a listing in katakana once but I lost the link and haven't been able to find it again.
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