At any rate, even though the loanwords are spreading at an unprecedented rate. The problems for students are spreading with them. Adding to the confusion, quite frequently loanwords are abbreviated or combined with Japanese words or other loanwords. They have no resemblance to the original source. Finally, the rules of grammar of the original words are often disregarded when the words are used in Japanese.
Prepositions become nouns, nouns become verbs, and conjunctions and suffixes just disappear.
All in all, for the foreign student, confusion abounds. In the next few pages, I hope to point out some of the most obvious problems in the use of loanwords and try to find some ways to clear up at least a little of the confusion. At the same time, I would like to show that the misunderstanding of the proper use of Katakana English can cause no end of trouble for Japanese students struggling to master English. Although a brief summary of special problems with loanwords has been given above, in this section, I will try to give a more detailed explanation. The vast majority of loanwords have been taken from English.