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1. Anyone have an iOS app (pdf reader) recommendation to read textbooks / do workbooks in? Have Genki 1 textbook/workbook that I’m starting to work through on my iPad with an Apple Pencil. I’m using goodreader right now but I think it’s kinda ugly.

2. What’s the difference between the -み and -さ nominalizers. How do you know which one to use or is it just a matter of remembering the words?

   例えば「長い」→「長さ」と「悲しい」→「悲しみ」
   違いは何ですか？

3. What does the word ガンガン mean?

4. Hello,

   I’m working through Genki 2 Chapter 14 and ran into these questions:

   一番うれしかったプレゼントは何ですか.

   一番うれしくなかったプレゼントは何ですか.

   I know うれしい itself can modify プレゼント to be “happy present”. But can past tense, and past tense negative forms of い-adjustives also modify nouns? Is that れしかったプレゼント and うれしくなかったプレゼント is doing?

   Thank you for your help! 😀

5. Student is talking about bad aspects/side of school club activities

   グエン：他に問題になるのは人間関係です。先輩と後輩の上下関係が厳しいところと、そうでもないところがあります。どちらもいい点と思い点がありますが、自分に合ったクラブに入ることが大切かもしれません。

   Honestly i dont understand what sentences 2 and 3 are trying to say at all.

   1. In sentence 2 first time seeing 上下関係、そうでもない、and not sure if i understand this ところ. From what i understand ところ can mean like “the aspect/side of someone etc”, but dont know if it means that here or something else. When i googled そうでもない meaning, saw someone saying it means “Not really”. So to me sentence 2 sounds something like this:

   “if・when the aspect・side（ところ?） of senpai and kouhai’s hierarchical relationship・ hierarchy(上下関係?) is strict… theres not really aspects/side （そうでもないところがあります?）”

   2. In sentence 3 confused with どちらもいい点と思い点, especially 思い点 which ive never seen before. To me that part sounds like: “both are good points and theres…thinking points（思い点？）

6. How much onomatopoeia should I know for N3 exam? I know the basics, but there’s a lot I’ll see in manga that I’m unfamiliar with and I’m wondering how deep I should dive into studying and memorizing the terms

7. Is there a term for a “tell”, as in someone’s “tell” during poker? Like when someone has a poker face, but when they have a good hand they unconsciously flare their nostrils out of habit or something subtle. Google tells me it’s テル but no idea if people will actually understand that word

8. What is the literal meaning of お電話代わりました? What particle should go after お電話 and what does 代わりました mean?

9. What exactly is the “てぇ” in this sentence “俺が知りてぇよ”?
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2EMatSXJoU (1:50 mark)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L3XVVzsmHE (English trailer if you want to see how they translated it)

   Seems to me to be some variation on the たい form, is it some specific dialect? Not having much luck Googling it.