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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (July 01, 2025)

  • July 1, 2025

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  1. From https://bunsuke.substack.com/p/shadows

    > 演技とか脚色とかは別にして、写真面だけで、何処かに国民性の差異が出ている。同一の機械や薬品やフイルムを使ってもなおかつそうなのであるから、われ／＼に固有の写真術があったら、どんなにわれ／＼の皮膚や容貌や気候風土に適したものであったかと思う。

    I am not sure what this piece of text is trying to say, especially the last sentence. What is the subject of 適した?

  2. 「作者うたかた模糊が二次創作の許諾を表明した事によりオタク界隈から人気に着火　アニメ化を経て爆発的な盛り上がりを見せるに至る」

    I’m accustomed to 見せる as having an explicit subject trying to show something, not in observing a phenomenon (as in ように or 見える). How can it be read here that would be different than just omitting を見せる ?

  3. When should I use でしょう compared to でづね?

    From what I understand でしょう is more assertive or assumptive and ですね is more of an inquiry or seeking affirmation right?

    Example contexts:

    あついですね。 it’s hot isn’t it?

    あついでしょう。　it’s probably hot.

    あしたはあめでしょう。 it will likely rain tomorrow.

    あしたはあめですね。 it will rain tomorrow right?

    あしたはあめです。　it will rain tomorrow( more of a fact )

  4. I am practicing listening of N4 .In modai3 there are Arrow sign above characters .What’s that?

  6. Ive been on LVL 12 of WaniKani for 150 days… I really need to pick up the pace. Not sure how people move up so quickly. The kanji are simple enough, but all the vocab and reading takes time… Wish I was more dilligent.

  7. WaniKani, Bunpro, HelloTalk, Lingodeer, etc. (What’s the best supplementary app)

    Granted you shouldn’t rely on app only. Use textbooks and stuff. And there’s some pros and cons to each app like some being a memory game like Anki. But I was wondering if you had to rank them overall and not just this for grammar this for vocabulary or tone. What’s the best one or it’s something else I forgot to mention or didn’t know off.

  8. Hi, I am a full time working, wife and mom. I started preparing for N3 from February. However, due to office and family could not focus entirely on N3 preparation.

    However, I have somehow completed the Vocab part and grammar from Shinkansen Master, however, feel really weak when it comes to kanji, doukkai and choukai.

    I will also have to drive four hours to appear for the test and four hours drive back. now that the exam is only a couple of days away, I am totally feeling dazed, unfocussed and lacking the confidence of ever being able to pull it off.

    Plus the 8 hour total drive to go and give the exam is making me rethink – if I invest more time, prepare more and then give the N3 in December? Or should I just face it with whatever preparation I have?

    Any advices?

    P.S: I have cleared N4 in December last year.

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  9. > 静夫にはその赤い小さい鳥居が際立つて眼についた。しかもそれは何故であるかは、かれにもわかつてゐなかつた。或は何処かの無名画家の小さな展覧会か何かで見た油絵の一小幀にそのシインが似てゐるので、それでその眼を惹いたかもわからない。それともまた、それから向うに松林がつゞいて、川がつゞいて、その下にかの女のゐる町の甍が見えてゐるためであつたかも知れない。それともまた、ある日そこに来て、深くかの女を思つた余りに、その祠の前に手を合せたためかも知れない。いつだつたかかれはその小さな鳥居の下で、三年も人知れず燃えてゐるその恋心をかの女に打明けて跪いて泣いた夢から愕然として覚めたことがあつたのを思ひ起した。その時、夢の中にも本当に泣いたと見えて、枕の布が微かにぬれてゐたことを思ひ起した。

    1. Which verb does いつだつたか belong to? 覚めた or 思ひ起した?
    2. Does 夢の中 mean “in the dream” or “during the dream”?

  10. can ために be used with negative verb? For example “I hide my snack so that my sister doesnt eat it” 妹にたべられないためにお菓子を隠した ….. like is it natural? if not what’s the alternative?

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