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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (February 05, 2025)

  • February 5, 2025

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9 comments

  1. Love the udea of this, should I learn hiragana vocabulary to make sentences with the x is y grammar connection or skip to kanji

  2. What’s the difference between
    に代わって
    vs
    の代わりに

    Bunpro gave me the sentence 玉ねぎの代わりに長ねぎを使おう。And when I tried to use に代わって it didn’t count it as wrong but directed me to use the other one.

  3. What do the symbols ” and ° (there’s probably more) mean when they are by katakana? I’m learning each of the characters now, but I’ve noticed they are sometimes accompanied by these symbols

  4. I started learning with Genki, but after picking up WaniKani and feeling like it makes learning SO much easier, Genki started to feel inefficient so now I’m interested to see if there’s something similar to WK, but for grammar. Does anybody have any good suggestions? I don’t like DuoLingo at all and have heard the Japanese course is pretty meh at best anyways. How is BunPro? What else is out there?

    I’ve finished Genki 1 and got a few chapters into Genki 2, but I feel like there’s gotta be a more efficient method, or at least something I can do in my free time?

  5. This might be kind of a loaded question, but I wasn’t sure if it was actually worth its own post or not. I commented this on a daily thread a few months back, but I took a break from the internet after and don’t think I ever followed up.

    Basically–I might be doing a semester abroad in Japan this fall (roughly mid-August through December) at Kansai Gaidai. I guess the thing I really want to know is, aside from the obvious “as much as possible,” where should I try to be in my understanding of the language by the time I leave, and any advice to get there? I know kana and some basic kanji, plus basic greetings and other phrases at the moment. I’m using WaniKani, Anki, and the Kanji Study app on Android, plus I watch a lot of tokusatsu for immersion. (Yeah, immersion. Totally). I am also a full-time student with a job, so I’m still working on finding dedicated time to actually study.

  6. I see にしてあげる enough that i thought it be nice to just memorize it as a word

    I think it translates best as “to give”. do you agree or disagree?

  7. Does anyone know where I can get hiragana/katakana/kanji writing worksheets that I can use on my iPad? I want to practice writing with my iPad

  8. They were in an amusement park and was deciding which attraction to try out first: https://imgur.com/a/oUriUpn

    It seems like attractions are counted by either 発 or 個? Is there any difference between these two counters?

  9. Is there a website where I can look up the standard pronunciation of Japanese words (even better if there are phonetic symbols)? I know there is Forvo, but the recordings on that site are uploaded by users. I would like an more official site where words are enunciated by professionals.

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