The Mysteries of Japanese Vocabulary

Author: Ying Sheng
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Publish Date: 1989-04-01
Features: Learners of Japanese often find it difficult to memorize vocabulary. Japanese words are indeed hard to remember because there are no discernible patterns. When learning Indo-European languages, word analysis can decompose words into stems and affixes, making them easier to remember. However, Japanese words are not constructed from stems and affixes in this way, so word analysis is not applicable.