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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (February 06, 2025)

  • February 6, 2025

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6 comments

  1. Are the Kodansha’s Kanji Learner’s Course and WaniKani good together? I recently bought the book and I’m already in WaniKani (still lvl2 free tier). I don’t mind spending money on WaniKani if it will help and complement Kodansha or the other way around.

  2. After learning Katakana and Hiragana, what’s a good next step? Basic vocab? Commonly used Kanji?

  3. How does one improve on conversing, without being immersed. (Ie, not living in japan)

    I use migaku daily to review and learn new material, and while my reading has improved tremendously, there’s no way I can even carry out a simple conversation.

    TIA for tips.

  4. Could someone help me understand the questions from chapter 4 of the genki one text book, I belive I understand the content of the chapter talking about ある and いるand I belive I grasp the concepts about time and partical usage but I’m abit confused on what the questions are asking, question 1 a asks to describe what you see using あります and います from an image I’m not sure whether the question is asking me to describe the locations in the image in relation to each other or just describe that they exist and are there?
    And for the b section it asks questions like
    あなたの学校に何がありますか I’m not clear wether this is asking what is your school as it its name or wether it is asking what exists within your school like objects you might find at a school. My assumption was the に particle ment the it was ‘what exists at your school’ but was hoping for some clarity before moving along!
    Same for the question like 動物園に何がいますか does the question prompt ‘is there a zoo’ or ‘what is something alive that is at the zoo’ I’m assuming it’s the latter but I dont have a teacher to ask so was hoping someone here could help!

  5. Can someone help me translate this word “百人斬り”

    Context: A guy as a girl “How many guys has you known?” And then he told the girl that she could “百人斬り”

    So the meaning of the word is “kill 100 people”, but the slang, can “斬り” translated into “sleep with someone”, I found only one source on GG included this slang, can some one help me confirm it?

  6. https://preview.redd.it/09symvyfpghe1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3501558afa416b0067f0d58147df7739aa154262

    Hi everyone! Does this message sound like it’s confirmed that there IS definitely going to be a restock at some point?

    Or is it just a polite, standard noncommittal way of saying “we can’t say/who knows”? Lol.

    Am I right in thinking 予定されて means there’s a high chance it still might not happen? What’s the nuance here? Thanks!

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