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1. Sorry to ask for a small bit of transcription help please: the line is from a movie 劇場, which I can’t link here because of sub rules, but it can be found in youtube by searching: Theater (2020) [劇場 , Gekijo] (2020)

   At 1:46:42, what does the speaker say? I hear something like: どこに義理だってしとんねん

   I’m not sure about the line, including しとんねん (which is I think Kansai-ben for しているん）

   The context is, the speaker is calling up some guy from a salon, who insulted his girlfriend.

   Edit: corrected where the guy was from

2. There’s a sentence on my snack that says 凍らせないでください

   Why is it ~せない instead of ~さない?

   I understand this to mean “Please do not freeze/refrigerate”

   But, since this is in the potential form, is the nuance more accurately “Please, this isn’t able to be frozen/refrigerated”?

   I guess I’m confused about the mixture of the imperative with the potential.

3. How would you recommend to study grammar and kanji at the same time? I’ve started genki chapter 3 last week, and so far have got through only a couple sections of kanji (doing 3 new + all reviews every day for now, might do more once I get used to it). The book recommends to do all vocab before starting with the grammar section, but is there a more efficient way to do it? I’m actually enjoying learning kanjis but I’d prefer not having to completely stop with grammar for too long

4. Should I buy the genki readers box 1 or only the integrated course books and work books?

5. is there some kind of rule for when 場 is read as ば and when it is read as じょう, or you just have to memorize the words?

6. Does anyone know what this means : “向事” 😭 I’m translating a light novel for fun and THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I COULDN’T SEARCH A KANJI

7. question on 箇条書き please 

   during a session with a teacher, I did a 箇条書き question for the first time. I wondered if I could get some outside help about making mine better, so that it is pleasant, easy to understand to the reader. and also if I’m trying to write according to my ability.

   箇条書き, as I understand it, is a reading/writing technique to summarise content e.g. news articles, emails, etc. doing this could help with reading, and finding core message of the content 

   im often asked to explain what the passages we read in class. today this was done by first writing things out in point form, and then explaining what I just wrote. on this basis, I wonder about two things

   should I paraphrase or copy word for word what’s in the message?

   how much of the content should you omit during explanation?

   this is for the purpose of improving reading ability. sorry if these questions sound confusing.

8. 昨日、子犬に餌をあげました。とてもかわいいです。