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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (December 27, 2024)

  • December 27, 2024

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  1. Hey there. I took Japanese in high school for four terms, and did some Duolingo afterwards but obviously that has a lot of issues as a program for learning this language. I have the genki books but never have gotten a habit of using them. After reading on this sub about an app called “Lessons” on iOS I’ve been going over the basics again (been quite a few years) and really enjoying it. The gameification, set up as individual lessons, and automatic flash card review all worked great at actually getting me to put in time.

    However, the app costs $150 per lesson for something like nine different tiers of lessons, or $400 for all of them together. Now, $150 is reasonable for me to invest at this point, but I’m worried how far the beginner lessons will take me and if I will regret not getting the package deal. At the same time, $400 is a bit steep for me this early on. I’m going through a breakup and my life is a little up in the air, and I don’t want to idealize my ability to commit to this to the point of throwing $400 at it, I don’t quite have that level of extra income currently.

    At the same time, I am wondering if there are alternative programs out there that may have this same level of gameification or ease of incorporating into my life. Learning on my phone is great for me due to chronic pain.
    Can anyone offer advice, alternative apps, or perhaps a recommendation for how worth it it is to pay for the lesson packages in “Lessons” for iOS? Thank you so much in advance!

  2. Note: I’m new to Japanese.

    I came upon this sentence:
    遠くに何か動いている物がある
    “There is something moving in the distance”

    動いて is te-form, and the te-iru form is 動いている
    So what this 物 is for?

    Wouldn’t this also mean the same:
    遠くに何かが動いている
    ?

    Thanks.

  3. > 否定してきたものを認めるのは難しい。そうだと信じて生きてきた自分を捨てなくちゃいけない。

    Would you interpret this “そうだと” as a quotative or as a conditional, as in does it mean “I have to throw away the part of me that lived up till now in the belief **that it was so.**” or “I have to throw away the part of me that lived up till now believing that, **if that be so.**”?

  5. What does oshi mean? I was watching a japanese gamer live streaming and every time he loses, he says oshiiii loudly

  6. I came across a sentence I don’t understand on Bunpro ([Source link](https://bunpro.jp/grammar_points/%E3%81%9F%E3%82%89)):

    Japanese: 部屋の掃除がまだだったら、まずそれをしなくてはいけない。

    English: If you have not cleaned your room yet, first you have to do that.

    The condition in English is negative (“**not** cleaned”), but the Japanese だったら is in the positive form. Why is that the case here?

    I thought saying “have not yet done something” is expressed via まだ and the progressive negative, e.g. まだ食べていません。

  7. Can someone explain to me the meaning of the expression “青菜に塩” and how I might use it?

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