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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (February 14, 2025)

  • February 14, 2025

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  2. I’m coming into a pretty annoying conflict. I’m finishing up the bunpro grammar for quartet 1 after having done all the n3 grammar points (that’s the textbook I’m using with my teacher). Quartet introduces きっかけ as a grammar point and it’s on bunpro, but they’re both used differently to the point I’m not sure if they’re teaching the same thing. Quartet teaches がきっかけで to show that something was the reason for starting something, but bunpro uses only をきっかけ and when I try to put がきっかけ it counts it as completely wrong. Why can’t you interchange these when I believe they’re doing the same thing?

    As an example, bunpro gives the example 私は入院をきっかけにタバコを止めることにしました。Why can I not just as easily say 私は入院がきっかけでタバコを止めることにしました。?

  3. じ is pronounced with the consonant /ʤ/ or /ʒ/. Which one should I use? Where are both of them used in Japan?

  4. It’s downright embarrassing to ask this after months, close to years of studying, but…

    > ３０歳前後、というところだろうか。

    > Could she be somewhere around 30?

    The meaning of という in general befuddles me, but here in particular, I don’t get at all. What is it doing in there?

  5. Good evening, I was hoping for some clarity, is 改めて more like もう or また. The kanji is for like redo for the sake of rejuvination or refinement right? So maybe thats a tell

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