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彼女はダンスの踊り方を学びたいです：In this sentence, ダンスの踊り方 feels redundant. Dance’s dance method. Dance appears twice. Maybe it’s just a conventional way of saying it despite the redundancy. Or, there’s a need to say it that way.
Hello! I struggle with recalling kana with no visual aid. I’ve been trying to find a video or app that will sound out random kana so I can try to write it down from memory when I hear it. Is there anything out there like that? I haven’t had much luck when searching
What’s the “sorry”-word? I know “sumimasen” and “gomenasai” exist, but what’s the word you say when, for example, bumping into someone, or trying to move trough a crowd?
I’m curious about how まだ is used in [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIG5sNCgsO4&list=LL&t=97s) video. The video is gameplay footage from a video game about a time loop. One of the game’s characters appears to say「まだあったね」. This is translated to “Are you still looping?” in the subtitles.
I have only seen まだ used with a verb when the verb is in て form (i.e., ている / ていない). Here, it seems that まだ is being used with a verb (ある), but not in the in て form (the た form is used instead). Why is this?
I have heard a few proverbs where より is used with two nouns and without specifying which property is being compared, such as
* 花より団子
* 遠くの親戚より近くの他人
Is this construction used outside of idioms a lot, and does it always imply that the noun which has より attached is worse compared to the other noun? Or can there be a context where that is not true?
When to use じゃない vs になっていない?
* 水平じゃない
* 水平になっていない
フレーズの「I’m proud of you」って日本語でどう言えますか？インターネットで検索したんだけど、そんなフレーズがないって言われたんだから、ここに聞いてみよっかーと思ったんです
ok so I just wanted to know if there’s like a set phrase when u wanna say that ur proud of someone in japanese cuz it doesn’t seem like there is afaik, but I wanted to make sure by getting you guys’ opinions 🙂 all I can think of is basically by just complimenting the person by saying 素晴らしい、すごい、いいんじゃないか！さすが！etc etc, but idk if that’s actually the most common way to say something similar to when u wanna say that ur proud of someone for their achievements or something like that