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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (June 11, 2025)

  • June 11, 2025

This thread is for all simple questions, beginner questions, and comments that don't need their own post.

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19 comments

  1. What happened to Animelon? I swear all the videos were available a few days ago. Now all the videos are unavailable.

  2. Where can I find those groups that study 1 chapter of Genki per week? Is there a discord to find such groups?

  3. Hello, senseis. 

    Is there a reason why 心地 is used at sentence? When I looked it up, it says that the definition is ‘feeling, feels like’. 

    Is there a difference between 心地 and みたいに or ように? Or even まるで? 

    I can’t quite grasp the real meaning of 心地. 

    Thanks in advance. 

  4. Any App recommendation that I can use to quiz me that gives me Hiragana in Romaji and has me draw the character?

  5. After 4~ months of study, I feel like the sentence order is finally starting to “click”. It’s a funny feeling. When I’m trying to put sentences together for my lessons, sometimes the sentence order feels ”natural”, but sometimes it doesn’t. It’s almost like my brain can’t decide whether it agrees with it or not lol

    Still, a long way to go, because usually my sentences sound weird (and my teacher corrects me every time), but it’s exciting to notice these small things 🙂

  6. Is there a resource that breaks up media (games and manga in particular for me) into N levels?

  7. https://imgur.com/a/xdPTYVq

    This panel is part of the rejection scene. She listed many reasons why she was nice to him ever since. One of the reasons she presented is 和さんや木部さんへの居た堪れなさ. 和さん and 木部さん are the ones who pressured them to go out together. These are the people they do not want to disappoint.

    I struggle to understand the meaning of the word 居た堪れなさ here. Does it refer to inability to handle shame if they don’t go out?

  8. Came across the word W杯

    Do people pronounce this (in their head or while talking) as ダブリュハイ, or is it just ワールド カップ?

  9. Random post but did anyone know you can input Unicode directly into the IME? I was trying to find out how to input the 株式会社の合字 from the IME (well took me a while to figure out what it was called first) and read somewhere you could just use the IME to input the code directly and it’ll bring it up as a listed option…

    https://preview.redd.it/ifcfdqhhu86f1.jpeg?width=164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a76570980cd700f717d76c2552dded8b470bb74

    I had no clue this existed. Works with any Unicode character.

  10. How do you say “it’s been 2 years that i came to this city” is it この町に来て2年がたちました or この町に来たのは2年がたちました. I feel like the sec one is incorrect?

  13. How should I be learning/memorising vocab on anki? I recently learnt the kana and now I’m memorising the pronunciation (or the hiragana) of the kanji before translating that to English, but I’m spending more and more time relearning old vocab that I forgot (I’ve started anki last week). Is my way of learning vocab ineffective? How can I retain the knowledge better?

    New to this sub, so I would be making this a post however I have zero karma here :/

  14. Cloud 「空中に浮かぶ都市か……。おちつかない風景だな」

    Barret「はあ？ あんたがそんなふうに感じるとはな
    ……意外だぜ」

    What does ふうに mean here?

  15. Does anyone know a simple kanji/vocab flashcard app with a dictionary? I’d love to be able to look up words, add them as flashcards to decks, and test myself as I please. I don’t want/need any progress tracking, etc.
    Anki really confuses me, but I’ll give it another try if anyone thinks it’s good for the above.

  16. should i delete audio when the tone/accent is wrong, in some jitendex entries, vs accent dictionary (アクセント辞典) ?

  17. Hello.

    As practice, I am trying to watch Japanese streamers. In chat rules I have met something called ROM (ロム). I figured it stands for Read-Only Member, but I can’t really understand the usage of it. In Japanese streams, you need to “establish” your role in stream chat beforehand?

    Sorry if that is not directly related to Japanese language, but I don’t see where can I ask something like this. I believe it is related.

    Thanks in advance.

  18. Anki deck question: I came across the following sentence and wondering why the particle is に instead of で?
    会社に財布を忘れた。

    Seems like a location maker would make more sense. Would it change the meaning or nuance if you used で?

  19. Anybody know any paid ways to get written feedback? For context, I want to self-learn the Quartet textbooks but want feedback on the workbook exercises. I know places like HelloTalk, discord servers, langcorrect, etc. exist but I don’t want to deal with the reciprocal exchange part. Someone vetted in teaching to give feedback would be really nice. If anyone has suggestions for iTalki tutors that do this, that’ll be great too, thanks!

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