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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (February 07, 2025)

  • February 7, 2025

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6 comments

  1. 2025 New Years Resolution: improve my reading (and overall) comprehension skills. I’ve done graded readers, and would like to maybe get some manga under my belt, so I’m soliciting the community for suggestions on whatever manga may have the lowest “barrier to comprehension” so to speak. Something nice and remedial.

    edit: I knew y’all would pull through on this.

  2. Is Anki really worth it? I only have access to an iPad and the app is 24.99 and I don’t have a lot of spending money at the moment.

  4. Can I say “わたしにはいもうとがいます” (I have a little sister) without “に”? That’s the translation I got from Japanese.

    Why does it have に?

  5. Just figured I’d share a pretty funny kanji misreading I had.
    So I was reading through the preface of a gakken kanji dictionary when I came across this line near the end.

    「せひ辞典に、漢字に、文章になれしたしんでください」

    I didn’t know the word for 慣れ親しんで（なれ・したしんで）, so it looked like it was saying なれした死んでください, which I knew had to be wrong, but was still kind of funny because I didn’t know until now.

  6. From Genki Chapter 17

    たけしさんが卒業してから全然**会ってない**けど… – I haven’t seen Takeshi at all after we graduated

    Why does it use te-form for 会わない here?

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