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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (June 16, 2025)

  • June 16, 2025

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6 comments

  1. Is this a natural sentence? The 存在 is throwing me off

    あの職人の技には、誰もが一目置く存在だ。

    My brain wants the sentence to end without the 存在だ

  2. https://imgur.com/a/PMpTw9d

    I wonder if 母さん達は言葉ですら伝えられてないくせに ends with something like よく言えたな. I am unsure if it has any relation to the next sentence そんなに言うなら見せてやる.

  3. What are some enjoyable immersion materials for the middle N4 stage- or whatever stage the end of Genki II gets you to- besides just mining from native material? I could try anime as well, but even something like Takagi-san leaves me completely bewildered two minutes in, usually to the point that I can’t follow the conversation.

    I already read most of the books on Tadoku for my level, and watched a fair few Comprehensible Japanese videos.

  4. Favorite uncommon / rare two-kanji words? I learned 膿漏(のうろう) today and I love it. Don’t think I’ll ever use it though lol. I love rare words. Please tell me your favorites

    I also really like 妥当(だとう) for some reason. I heard the sentence 〇〇だと妥当だと思います in a movie once and it’s been carved into my brain ever since

  6. hi some questions please. how do i improve on this?

    practising しようがするまいが

    営業機関は今日の会議に参加しようがするまいが、社長は昔の商品の業績で話をするらしい。

    practising とはいえ, and wondering if im telling a story, can i mix present tense and past tense like this? 

    猫のみーちゃんは毎日、夕方６時に扉の前に母さんを待っている事があります。母さんは昨日ドイツに旅行しました。それとはいえ、みっちゃんは昨日扉の前にかあさを待ってるよな座っていました。

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