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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (March 23, 2025)

  • March 23, 2025

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  3. What’s your personal approach to textbooks like 新完全マスター?

    Just curious how you all are using the books. Like do you do a one-and-done kind of thing after you’ve read it and done the questions?

    I’m making Anki flashcards of the 単語 book, and have been reading/doing quizes of the 文法 book and putting some sentences in Anki as well. Haven’t approached the 読解 and 聴解 yet.

  4. How would チィ likely be pronounced? Is this some kind of Chyi sound? How is that different from チ when verbalized? Is this just チー? I don’t really know.

    Additional context: This comes from someone mispronouncing the name 千尋 as チィヒーロ

  6. >こころんみたいな、血統書付きのキュウリ嫌いは、メロンもダメなのかと思った

    what does 血統書付き mean in this sentence? searching for it only returns results to do with pets, which i don’t think is how it’s being used here.

    is it just describing こころん’s “well-documented” dislike of キュウリ?

  7. Throwing out a personal opinion here. **Grammar is to be learned not perfected.**

    This is to say that I think that you should learn/study grammar but not to the where you have memorized every possible grammar rule and verb conjugation.

    There is a side that thinks they can immerse to the point where they pick up every rule simply by listening. This side is making things thrice as hard as it needs to be.

    There is a side that only when you have downloaded Genki into your brain you will achieve fluency. They talk very slowly and it wont be until they immerse and learn the rules on a subconscious level that they’ll gain in fluency.

    I believe that the brain works best when its given a hint and direction for how a sentence structure is to be interpreted and how connecting particles function. Too much or too little study in grammar wastes effort.

  8. In mahjong, does 牌が出る mean that you are drawing a tile or discarding a tile?

    Thanks

  9. The below is from a mahjong strategy guide

    単独リャンメンｘリャンメンの１シャンテンをヘッド固定するかどうかは状況にもよるが・・・

    I am having trouble understanding what the contents before かどうか mean here, mainly because of the word ヘッド which seems to be floating in the sentence without a clear grammatical function. Is the author treating the entire ヘッド固定する expression as a single verb? Either way, it seems like there are two objects for 固定する, both ヘッド and １シャンテン.

    The mahjong terms themselves are not an issue, feel free to use them in any explanations.

    Thanks

  10. Some kanji seem to have vastly different forms between the printed and the written form. For example, 心 looks very different in the stroke order diagram here: [https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/dictionary/entry_details.cfm?entry_id=34597&j=kokoro](https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/dictionary/entry_details.cfm?entry_id=34597&j=kokoro)

    Is there any particular reason I would pick one form over the other when writing? Can I write my 心 so it looks like the font here, and will that look normal?

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