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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (August 19, 2025)

  • August 19, 2025

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  3. reading 肉じゃがの作り方 from quartet 1 textbook

    日本の「家庭料理の定番」と言われるだけあって、誰からも愛される肉じゃが。

    1. What does 誰からも mean? doesnt show up on yomitan for me, and the textbook doesnt mention it either. Idk if this website is accurate, but according to “Reverso context” website 誰からも can mean “by everyone”, is that what it means here?

    2. Confused with the meaning of 誰からも愛される肉じゃが , if 誰からも means “by everyone”, i understand that part like: “the nikujaga that is loved by everyone”, but is it saying that or does 誰からも愛される肉じゃが here mean “nikujaga is loved by everyone” instead?

  4. I’m already taking classes, and I wanted to practice kanji, but most of these apps assume you’re starting from 0 or only working with that specific app, which is a good flashcard app where I can just choose the kanji I’m already learning to practice those specifically

  6. People often say to read more if you want to clear N2, N1 and also actually get good in Japanese. But what if I hate reading? The only time I don’t mind reading is if I am playing a game, so keeping this in mind I’m even considering getting myself a switch or switch 2 and play Japanese games in them since they are quite cheap here in Japan, that way I am not bored and engaged in a storyline. Thoughts?

  7. ほおずいしてる

    Context: the character is rubbing her cheek against an object

    i know the word ほお mean 頬 (cheek)
    but i can’t google what ずいしてる mean or how i should understand it?

  8. Hello! I got a fill-in-the blank question wrong, but don’t really understand why the answer is など instead of や. Could you please help me understand better?

    Sentence: さいきん、日本の歌やアメリカ歌 ___ 、いろいろな国の歌を聞きます。

    It’s my understanding that など means “etc.”, so I thought that since there was another thing being listed (“music from various countries”) and the fact that いろいろ (meaning “various” to my understanding), the correct answer would be や

  9. I keep forgetting kanjis.

    I learn kanjis through mining words from anime, then study them in anki 15 new words per day, but I keep forgetting so quickly and I mix up the pronunciation of kanjis just because it looked kinda similar to another kanji.

    I heard the word enough times so when I hear it I know what it means but my brain can’t retain the kanji even after writing it multiple times when learning it at first. Anki tags a few of my cards as leech but I don’t think it’s normal to see that quite a few times a week.

    Should I learn using Wani kani now or something? KKLC, RTK… etc are they gonna be useful for my situation?

  10. Hey! I’m trying to register for the N2, as it says it opens on August 18th for the west half of the US, but I’ve been waiting for it to open and it still hasn’t. Does anyone know why? I haven’t taken the JLPT before so I am wondering if there is something I’m missing.

  11. Couldn’t find another sub for this, but does anyone know how Yomitan works with two dictionaries at once? Looking to add a bilingual one.

  12. Should I memorize all the kanji readings or just some, if I only have to learn some then how do I know which ones ro learn?

  14. 時,間 means time, hour ( or what anki taught me) so does that mean that 時 equals time, and 間 equals hour? and please do not downvote me, for i am new. and have already been downvoted multiple times

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