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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (July 14, 2025)

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  1. https://imgur.com/a/G3CNVPb

    They were discussing whether their family would approve their (romantic) relationship. Their parents are divorcees who just got married.

    I have doubts with the meaning of “coming out” in this sentence だからまだ無理にカミングアウトしなくていいと思う. It means to come clean about their relationship? What is the subject for カミングアウトしなくていい? Is お母さんと話す≒カミングアウトする?

  2. 一応 seems to be giving me trouble in a couple of contexts. I’ve seen some of the meanings before, but I’m not sure what meanings it carries in these 2. Let me know if I need to provide more context. It’s from Claymore EP 3 if anyone cares to check. 1. is at 3:45 and 2 is at 4:24.
    1. Here they are entering their room at an inn.

    （ラキ）うわあ 結構いい部屋だ

    （クレア）一応 聖都と呼ばれる町だからな

    2. Here クレア changes her demeanor quite easily from her normal cold to more jovial to trick some people to help her seem less suspicious.

    （ラキ）ん…

    （クレア）どうした？

    （ラキ）あっ いや

    コロコロ変わるんだな

    何か びっくりしたよ

    （クレア）一応 訓練は受けた

  3. Can you help me transcribe this?

    https://voca.ro/17EeainRfWdP

    This is supposed to be an equivalent to “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” from Shakespeare, but even knowing that, I can’t get the exact words.

    I think the beginning might be 不幸という名の

    Then I hear something like いっしゅうみにつらうかねるのは, but it’s probably wrong because I don’t see how it would make sense.

    The ending is possibly 高貴な魂[上?]のことなのか

  4. What is the way you are “supposed” to use Anki? As I feel I’m just getting piles and piles of reviews every day with little retention… I realize the FSRS algorithm is supposed to adapt to my learning, but I feel like I just mash the hard button over and over since I “kind of” know the word (usually after the pronunciation), but don’t want to hit try again and get stuck staring at it for another 3 minutes in re-reviews. It’s not that I haven’t learned words from it- there are definitely some words that I began to recognize after a while- it’s just that I dread doing the reviews every morning where I could be reading in JP or something else.

  5. https://preview.redd.it/wgdbi3zgjrcf1.png?width=639&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8509d015885f0f99a74277a3528dca5b21f6244

    What does “でもま、 ポケモンカードゲームを楽しんでもらえたのなら．．． マーイーカ” mean?
    I can’t seem to find でもま in a dictionary, it might be でも with ま in front if it but I don’t know what ま means on its own.

    I still dont know what he is trying to say for the rest of the sentence. In the Tae Kim book, it says if you use もらえる with the te-form it means you are asking for a favor but “Could you do me a favor and enjoy the Pokemon TCG” does not make sense. On top of that, it has “if (なら)” in front of it as well which I can’t even begin to understand it’s purpose.

    In other words, I am very confused by that sentence.

  6. Google finally took away yomichan and clipboard inserter from me. What are you guys using nowadays to mine websites and games?

  8. Is there a way to sign up for notifications when jlpt registration for a December test opens? I know they open late July.

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