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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (September 09, 2025)

  • September 9, 2025

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  1. Just wanted to share a hilarious pitch accent anecdote I heard today on a recent TBS podcast (安住紳一郎の日曜天国) episode. (btw anyone else here listen to it?  It’s decent listening practice.)

    Someone wrote into the show recounting a story from a couple years back when when she went on a trip to the 広島記念平和公園 and unexpectedly witnessed a meeting there between Zelensky and Kishida-san.  She described the scene to her husband over the phone as: 「ねえねえ、今、岸田さんとゼレンスキーさんが平和公園で献花してるんだ」to which her husband apparently replied (aghast) 「えっ？！喧嘩してるんの？それは大変じゃん！！」

    I listened to this while I was at work and straight up broke out laughing at the thought of this guy imagining his wife wandering into the 平和公園 and witnessing Kishida-san and Zelensky fighting there…a 大変 scene that would be indeed!  Apparently depending on your region, 献花 can either be ↗けんか or ↘けんか, and this lady pronounced it the former way which caused the confusion with 喧嘩。

    The story prompted the host to reflect 「ちょっと違うだけで全然違う意味になる」and have a short discussion with his co-host about how inconvenient pitch accent differences can be in Japanese.  We all know about 雨/飴 and 箸/橋/端、but 喧嘩/献花 was a new pair for me!  Anyway thought you guys would get a kick out of the story.

  2. I have a big doubt. I already know the entire kana. What should I study next in order to get closer to the fluency?

  3. Do you think the content from Japanese Ammo With Misa, JapanesePod101 and Kotoba (Brazil only) worth?

  4. Hello!

    I’ve been posting about [QuizLingua](https://quizlingua.com/) in the Wednesday self-promo threads for a few months, the app has improved a lot thanks to the feedback, I’m still actively working on it, and I’d like to ask permission to make a front-page post

    thanks!

  5. Currently been using Duolingo as main driver (bunpro to supplement grammar). As Duo introduces words in every unit I add them to an Anki deck that generates:
    1. kana/kanji/sound front – english back
    2. english front – kana/kanji/sound back
    3. kanji front – kana/english back

    So sort of covering production and recognition, plus getting ahead of kanji since duo is slow to introduce that.

    Then Im using Kaishi 1500 to boost vocab a few words a day (suspending duplicates that are already covered in duo).

    My main question is that Duo so far thru 2 sections is only ます form verbs. Should I add the plain forms to my Duo verbs as I learn them? Or just wait until duo introduces it.

    Otherwise will slowly get those forms through Kaishi.

    Thanks!

  7. So I take a conjugation test, and I keep failing to recognize verbs that end with “su” vs “suru”.

    Here’s 2 examples, I’ll get something like these two, and if I’m to convert it to a different form – I might get them confused.
    買い戻したくなくて

    足しませんでした

    I’ll sometimes mistake the conjugation of the two.

    Besides more exposure, what else can I do to know if it ends in Suru or Su?

  11. On android, you can use yomitan to aid you in reading epub light novel by using edge canary, is there a same thing for manga if you have the jpg files? I am aware of mokuro, but tbh the setup guide on lazyguidejpgithub looks extremely complicated. Are there other alternatives for android?

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