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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (September 03, 2025)

  • September 3, 2025

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  3. Got some questions about this Quartet textbook dialogue

    ジョージ：あ、そうなんですか。北口改札はどう行けばいいですか。

    駅員さん：そちらの階段を下りて、いったんホームに戻ってください。ホームの反対の端まで歩いて、エスカレーターを上がったところが北口です。

    ジョージ：ホームの反対のエスカレーターを上がったところですね？

    1. According to the textbook いったん means once, but does it mean “temporarily/briefly” here?

    2. Confused with エスカレーターを上がったところ. First time seeing this past tense+ところ & its used a few times in the dialogue. To me it sounds like: the north exit/entrance is at “the place where you went up” the escalator, but is it instead something like :the place where you go up?

  4. If I am not wrong, Evening in Japanese is called ばん, ゆうがた & よる。 Please tell me the difference and how to use them in a phrase.

    (A request from a new student, please try to avoid kanjis and write the examples in Hiragana and -if possible- Romaji as well)

  6. Haven’t really worked much on output yet, but curious if anyone else had issues pronouncing stuff with a R sound after わ?

    Like 表れる or 触らないで I find kind of hard to pronounce

    I probably should look for some info on how to say the わ sound. I know where tongue should hit for R sounds, but I guess the problem is when I make the わ sound I have to open my mouth and my tongue goes down to the bottom of my mouth so its a long distance to travel from that position to the position for the R sound.

    Since I haven’t read much about issues with that im gonna assume its just because I haven’t put much effort into speaking yet…

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