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

  • March 6, 2025

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  2. To anyone whose read また、同じ夢を見ていた how difficult was it? I’m still pretty new to jaoanese learning but have had an ok time with the l4 grades readers on tadadoku and have been looking to push myself into some more immersive content, I feel like I maybe fighting though it if it’s very difficult but I love reading so was hoping to find something I could work on for immersion! If not this does anyone have any easier reader recommendations!

  3. Sorry for noob question, but in case you use Takoboto dictionary app, can you tell me what those words/particles in orange boxes at the right side of some of the entries mean? I can’t find a guide for the app.

    https://imgur.com/a/LQB8pAw

  4. I have a question about the pronunciation of を topic marker

    In the first timestamp below, it sounds like its an extension of the word and comes out to sound like “futow” or “futao” but in the second one it seems more like its pronounced with a bit of spacing after densha and sounds more like densha “oh” or almost kinda like a super lite “woa”

    https://youtu.be/dtAvmNUriDY?t=291

    https://youtu.be/dtAvmNUriDY?t=365

    Is that object marker supposed to sound completely different depending on the preceding words? Or should there typically be more of a pause before you say “wo”

    https://youtu.be/dtAvmNUriDY?t=747

    Also the wo hear sounds like wa!

  6. I was listening to Nihongo con Teppei, and after he says that listening to his podcast is very important, he says “boku wo shinjite”. 

    How does this work? Why isn’t it “boku wa shinjite iru” or something like that? 

    I see there is a song with the same title too!

  7. Can someone please help my understand this sentence😭? 部屋にいた田中さん というけいさつかんに、どんなかばんか、どんな場所へ行ったかを話した。

    I don’t understand what “というけいさつかん” means, and how the か particles work. For context, they’re recounting what happened after they lost their bag and went to the police station.

  8. If I’m in an udon restaurant and it has both a トッピング and a 天ぷら section of the menu — how would you best order a bowl with an addition from each of those? E.g. 生のり as a topping, and キス天W as the tenpura.

    I know the basic ___ o hitotsu onegaishimasu structure 🙏 this requires extra sentence components I feel? Merci

  9. So I’ve been using Bunpro for a while now (midway through N2) but the reviews are getting kinda insane now. Each grammar point has like 10 cards so there are a shit ton of repeated reviews all with the 10 different meanings a grammar point may have. Is there a way to limit Bunpro to one card per grammar point, I kinda just wanna have a general understanding of each point and learn more as I immerse myself in Japanese content.

  10. A couple of Anki questions:

    1) Let’s say that I have a Parent deck called: Daily learning which contains two subdecks: Vocab Deck and a Mining deck. I want to learn 10 new cards a day. How do I set up the subdecks in my parent deck so that the new cards come from the mining deck first and then whatever is leftover gets taken from the Vocab deck?

    2) Does anyone have Anki settings that closely resemble the SRS settings used by Wanikani? Whatever SRS spacing for new and reviews that Wankikani uses really works for me and I’d like to mirror it in Anki.

  11. As a self-studier, how should I go through Genki (and the associated workbook and Tokini Andy’s series)? Just read, watch, write and move on?

  12. I have a question regarding the “の” particle – I’ve seen examples like 時間がないのだ. It’s seems to be relatively common and I’m wondering what’s the difference here with 時間がない. Is it the same? Why would you use one over the other?

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