Japanese	English
banana	banana
kamera	camera
abokado	avocado
terefon	telephone
bando	band
toranpetto	trumpet
seinto	saint
furendo	friend
furuuto	flute
abunoomaru	abnormal
terebijon	television
baiburu	Bible
jeneraru	general
pankurokku	punk rock
heriumu	helium
intaanetto	internet
tooneedo	tornado
intaanashonaru	international

Students will hopefully come up with some of the following principles:

• Words with consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel remain identical or almost identical (as in banana, abokado, kamera)
• No "l" (replaced by "r", as in terefon and jeneraru)
• Additional vowels appear
• Words and syllables cannot end with a consonant (unless it is "m" or "n", or the first of two identical consonants, as in pan-ku-rok-ku). That is the reason for the added vowels.
• The added vowel is "o" after "t" and "d", and "u" in all other cases.
• "r" at the end of a syllable disappears (as in intaanetto, intaanashonaru)

The answers are:

husband	hazubando (accept husubando)
friendship	furendoshippu (accept furiendoshipu)
albino	arubino

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