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Air Force American ARMED FORCES INFORMATION average Japanese beautiful Buddhism Bushido centuries chee-KA.ee Chinese cities climbing cloisonné Commodore Copper-Zinc divine Emperor DO-ko dess-ka earthquakes EE-chee famous farm Ginza going Hirohito Hokkaido Honshu houses intestinal diseases island of Honshu Japan proper Japanese eat Japanese Government Japanese home Japanese islands Japanese language Japanese term Japanese weights Kamakura Karuizawa Koku koo-da-SA.ee koo-RAY Kyoto Kyushu lake Lake Chuzenji land legend live Manchuria miles Mount Asama mountain NAHN dess-ka nee-koo Nickel Nikko northern northernmost island occupation officer Okinawa Orient Osaka past six port port of Yokohama religion renounced his divinity rice rule Ryukyu Islands sacred Sapporo Shaku SHEE Shikoku Shinto shoguns Shoto shrines south of Tokyo station street Sun Goddess Tenno things tokonoma Tokyo typhoon United States equivalent Uraga USAFI wa-ka-ree-MA-SKA wa-TAHK-shee-wa weights and measures Western worship Yokohama
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Page 60 - All the words and phrases are written in a spelling which you read like English. Each letter or combination of letters is used for the sound it usually stands for in English and it always stands for that sound. Thus, oo is always pronounced as it is in too, boot, tooth, roost, never as anything else.
Page 62 - Where is such and such?" may be "To the right" or "To the left
Page 60 - Thus, oo is always pronounced as it is in boo, too, boot, tooth, roost, never as anything else. Say these words and then pronounce the vowel sound by itself. That is the sound you must use every time you see oo in the Pronunciation column. If you should use some other sound — for example, the sound of oo in blood — you might be misunderstood.
Page 64 - When you want to know the name of something you can say "What's this?
Page 61 - LOCATION When you need directions to get somewhere, you first name the place, add wa, and then add the expression for "where is?
Page 60 - That is the sound you must use every time you see oo in the Japanese column, if you should use some other sound — for example, the sound of oo in blood — you may be misunderstood.
Page 64 - Here are the words for some of the things you may require: bread fruit water egg soup ish steak meat beef pork potatoes rice beans vegetables ka-noaM-BAHNG poaN-la-MAH^EE!
Page 27 - General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, the.