I am just starting out with Perl and I am reading the 6-part tutorial on perl.com. I am working on their first exercise which is a word frequency counter and I am stuck. I'm reading the array or words into a hash and the hash values seem to be correct but I am having trouble formatting the report. Thanks in advance for any help. 
use strict;
use warnings;

my(@phrase) = ("apple", "apple", "banana", "banana", "pear", "pear", "
+pear", "kiwi", "kiwi");
my($i) = 0;
my($j) = 0;
my(%wordfreq) = ();

for $i (@phrase) {
    $wordfreq{"$phrase[ $j ]"}++;
#    print "$wordfreq{\"$phrase[ $j ]\"} appears $wordfreq{\"$phrase[ 
+$j ]\"}\n";
    $j++;
}

print keys %wordfreq;
print $wordfreq{"apple"};
print $wordfreq{"banana"};
print $wordfreq{"pear"};
print $wordfreq{"kiwi"};

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