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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (July 05, 2025)

  • July 5, 2025

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6 comments

  1. > チャットの問題発言の報告は、本当に必要な時だけにしてください。報告しすぎてもいいことありません!

    How the second sentence is understood? I am not sure if 報告しすぎてもいい modifies こと or it is a combination 報告しすぎても+いいことありません.

  2. So I’m doing a lot of N3 practice tests and questions through Migii, which admittedly doesn’t have the best english translations, but every now and then I find a question for the reading where two answers legitimately seem like the exact same thing. [Can someone make a convincing argument for why answer four is not only different but somehow better than answer three, which is the one I chose?](https://imgur.com/a/BAPup3c). “A person who greets others if they are greeted first” sounds like the exact same fucking thing to me as “A person waiting for someone else to greet them”, since the people talked about in the article only greet back if they’re greeted first unless there’s some really minute different I missed in the question.

  5. I’m about to buy a JLPT Listening practice book and would prefer the Shin Kanzen Master over the Sou Matome.

    However, the Shin Kanzen Master only comes with a CD, not a audio download, right? I don’t have a CD drive anywhere – Is there any way to obtain MP3s of the questions? If not, I might have to fall back to Sou Matome, which seems to be less recommended.

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