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1. 磨き抜かれた格闘法の指南書.

   I’m a little confused about 抜かれた in this sentence. Is it just enhancing 磨き? As in polished completely?

   So the translation would be something like “A well refined grappling method instruction book?”

2. This sentence:

   >食事を後回しにして、宿題を片付ける。

   Had me look up 片付ける:

   1. to tidy up; to put in order; to straighten up; to put away
   2. to settle (problem); to clear (dispute)
   3. to finish; to bring something to an end
   4. to marry off (e.g. a daughter)
   5. to do away with someone; to bump someone off

   Obviously, “tidy up” is not the right definition, but it works surprisingly well for homework (3), disputes (2), daughters (4) and enemies (5).

3. why the が in 考える is always pronounced ‘nga’?
   regardless of older japanese or not, i never heard japanese pronounce it as Ga.

   FYI, older japanese tend to pronounce が as ‘nga’

4. Hi everyone, I had started learning Japanese for 2 months maybe. I started with Duolingo (still on section 2 unit 9) and a YouTube channel called YuYu Nihongo, I watched 4 videos of YuYu and stared his hiragana and katakana series. I finished hiragana and katakana on Duolingo and I’d say I can accurately recognize like 85-90% of kanas I see, however I don’t know much vocabulary. I also read from time to time some of the scripts from Cure Dolly.

   I decided to start with Anki (Kaishi 1.5 deck) around maybe 2-3 weeks ago. I’ve been learning 20 words per day, however Anki seems kinda difficult at times, so I don’t know if my approach is good. So far, I’ve been mostly working on Anki (haven’t watched YuYu nor been using Duolingo much lately). But I don’t feel like I can retain most of the kanjis I’m presented per lesson. Most of the kanjis I see I usually mark them as hard and review by the next day, and I still struggle to remember/recognize them when reviewing. Some days I have like 60 cards to review and I don’t think I’m doing much of a progress.

   I have tried looking for some immersion methods, like Satori Reader but I genuinely don’t understand not even the simple texts. I wanted to try some podcast but can’t really think of what sort of easy topic podcast to search for.

   When watching anime I can sometimes recognize a few words and that does make me happy, however not enough to understand a full sentence.

   So what I really wanted to ask is, how do you guys study with Anki? My short-mid term goal is to be able to read manga raw and watch anime without subtitles. I kinda had like some kind of roadmap in my head which was starting with YuYu Nihongo and Duolingo and learning kanjis until I feel like I was able to study by myself using Minna no Nihongo textbooks.

   I started learning Japanese cause I wanted to learn a new skill and thought of a new language, I consume manga and anime and find Japanese culture quite interesting, also thought it would be cool to play Zelda (my favorite video game saga) in Japanese. So I thought of giving Japanese a try. But I have never actually self taught a language before and I’ve been starting to feel kinda lost and demotivated this last few days.

   Edit: Typos.

5. Beginner here. I started learning how to write hiragana and I’m confused about certain characters. Like which among き/さ (separate stroke) and き/さ (connected stroke) is used in handwriting and which one on print/digital?

6. This is a dialogue between dad and his stepdaughter 沙季. She asked him whether there were any negative aspects about her mom 亜季子.

   >「嫌いっていうほどじゃないけど、あえて不満のようなものを言うなら、そうだなぁ……。しっかりしているようでいて、ふだんはわりとだらしないところとか」
   >
   >「たしかに、そういうところありますよね」
   >
   >「僕がちょっと悠太に厳しくすると、あとでこっそり叱ってくるところとか」
   >
   >「へえ」
   >
   >「あとは、仕事の愚痴がちょっと長い」
   >
   >「えっ。お母さんって、愚痴とか言うんですか」
   >
   >「たまーに、だけどね。でもいざ始まると一回が長くって」
   >
   >「知らなかった……」
   >
   >「職場がお高めの、お酒を提供してるお店だからね。お客さんへの愚痴の内容も、エグめのものが多いから、沙季ちゃんには聞かせたくないんだと思う。僕と暮らす前は、職場の人に聞いてもらうことが多かったみたい」
   >
   >「あのっ……もし母の愚痴が嫌なら、私に投げてください。私が聞きますからっ」
   >
   >「丈夫だよ。心配しないで、沙季ちゃん」
   >
   >「でも……」
   >
   >「あのね、たしかに亜季子さんにも駄目なところがあるよ。だけど僕の駄目さに比べたら可愛かわいいものだから」
   >
   >「えっ？」
   >
   >「だらしなさでは負ける気しないし、沙季ちゃんが亜季子さんに叱られてたらもっと優しくしなよと口出しせずにいられないし、愚痴もバンバン言うからねえ。お互い様だよねえと思ったら、悪いところを責める気になんてなれないよ」

   I have trouble with the last one:

   1. What does 負ける mean? Compromise?
   2. The subject of 優しくしな is 紗季, right?
   3. The subject of バンバン言う is 僕, right?

7. Hi guys! this will be my first-ever Reddit comment haha. I have been having trouble understanding why some kanji make different sounds depending on what they are next to. I just ran across this with “hitori”.

   https://preview.redd.it/r9l6jb7d49ge1.png?width=688&format=png&auto=webp&s=16a7db6fcd710577e42cc51d669ad821b5d97f97

   The kanji for hito is person and that’s second to the kanji for one. So why does the kanji for one make the hito sound? and where does ri come from? Because I only know of ichi being connected to the kanji for one. It’s been tough for me to comprehend that some characters make such varied sounds. Thanks! 🙂

8. I recently learn the cool pair of 以後＆以前. On Jisho only 以前 is labeled as Suffix. weird, Is 以後 really not suffix-able? thanks

9. Is Naruto saying tenkan / てんかｎ Right before he transforms? If not, what word is he using?

   https://youtu.be/AfmKTe0QrKE?si=1jy5gxI4xBX9rT-U