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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (August 10, 2025)

  • August 10, 2025

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  1. i was on my part time job and then a family enters, the father looked asian, the mother american
    then i ask her, very nervous, if her husband was japanese and she said yes
    so i said to him あのー日本人ですか？
    and he replies 日本人です
    and i say 俺は日本語勉強している
    and then he says that he is a japanese teacher
    and i say 俺は俺の先生です (trying to say im 独学 in the most broken way possible)
    i was so nervous and then i do a slight bow and say いってらっしゃい and they say またね　and then proceed to exit

    this was like my first interaction ever with a japanese person IRL i was nervous as fuck, i forgot completely 敬語😭

  4. How are you guys using Ai to help yourlself in language learning ? Is there any particular prompt that is being beneficial for you? I feel like I am not making the best use of it.

  6. 七五調 Part Two.

    It’s not perfect. It’s from the Iwanami Bunko edition of the *Aeneid*.

    *Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora,*

    わたしは歌う(7)、戦いと(5)、そしてひとりの(7)　英雄を(5)。

    神の定める(7)　宿命の(5)、ままにトロイアの(7+1)　岸の辺を(5)、

    まずは逃れて(7)　イタリアの(5)、ラーウィーニウムの　(7+1)　海の辺に(5)、

    辿りついた(7-1)　英雄を(5)。

  7. Are there any extra steps one must take to be a writer/mangaka in japanese

    I am learning the usual way from kana to genki and so onn but I want to make a manga as well in japanese and I have heard that they write a bit differently than what’s considered the standard japanese

    So do I need to learn some extra stuff ?

  8. Question for people that use migaku kanji god addon started using it recently to learn kanji found while sentence mining how do you deal with so many kanji for example I mined 10 cards and It made about 40 kanji to learn

  9. Is anyone using Yomichan/Yomitan that can help? On the popup there are a bunch of tags (like v5r for godan verb, or vi for intransitive verbs, I believe). Does anyone know what “io” would mean? It came up for 下がる. Or does anyone know where I can read up on the possible tags?

  10. # **Japanese novel + audiobook recommendation?**

    I’m looking for a novel + audiobook that is engaging, uses normal vocabulary, is not too complex, and has very CLEAR audio.

    Even though I’m still a beginner, **I don’t mind tolerating ambiguity**. That said, I still want at most a book that is moderately accessible. And again, engaging.

    I reckon that this can be my primary way catching on to Japanese. I’ll just re-listen the first chapters multiple times.

    If there is no text available, but just the audiobook, I don’t mind that much. But it’d be nice since I can use this later to learn the kanji. Also, I don’t mind paying.

  12. Hi, I’m trying to check my understanding of the difference 外れる and 取れる. I was wondering if I could get some feedback/correction of my understanding if its wrong.

    * From what I gather 外れる has the idea of something becoming “off” what/where its decided/made to be. So in the physical sense, it refers to something that was attached, hung or fastened to become detached from such a state. Hence 「ボタンが外れた」 refers to a button becoming unfastened. Similarly, in the non-physical sense also can mean something deviates from the original goal/target/expectation/path or to become excluded from a group.

    * On the other hand 取れる being the intransitive counterpart of 取る is like something “taking” itself away and therefore probably not coming back. So it lacks the connotation of 外れる being “Apart from where is should be” and replaces it with something going away. Hence 「ボタンが取れた」 means a button has dropped off. Or 「痛みが取れた」 means a pain has gone away.

    Is my impression correct? Thanks in advance!

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