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1. What are the best ways to revise/learn new things, or what methods do you use? I struggle to memories new kanji, in terms of how to write, different readings (onyomi vs kunyomi) and the vocabulary associated with those kanji, and also new grammar features.

2. **ブンと低い唸りを上げて**
   Hope someone knowledgeable about Japanese could clarify this part’s meaning. My guess but not sure: “The warhammer emits a low key whoosh sound”. Feel free to correct my mistakes

   The writer is describing action of a warrior (A) in an arena match

   俺に攻めっ気がないと見るや、Aの方から仕掛けが始まった。

   **ブンと低い唸りを上げてウォーハンマーが振りかざされ、俺の足元間近を風が薙ぐ。**

3. Hi guys, I’ve learned that verbs have three ways of saying such as
   言う、言います、言って

   My understanding is that the one with て must be connected with another word like kudasai.

   For this sentence 何を言っている, couldn’t I just I say 何を言う or 何を言います?

   Also, I realized conversations rarely use the -masu form. Is that true? Is it a preference that sometimes people use the base and masu form? Like 勉強する and 勉強します?

4. Hi guys, I’ve learned that verbs have three ways of saying such as
   言う、言います、言って

   My understanding is that the one with て must be connected with another word like kudasai.

   For this sentence 何を言っている, couldn’t I just I say 何を言う or 何を言います?

   Also, I realized conversations rarely use the -masu form. Is that true? Is it a preference that sometimes people use the base and masu form? Like 勉強する and 勉強します?

5. I used the にほんごとまとめ books (with other material) to pass N5 last year. I am using the N4 books to study for that test in preparation for December but I’m finding the grammar book less than helpful. It doesn’t feel like it gives enough explanation to understand some of the concepts. Can someone recommend an alternate study book (primarily for grammar)?

6. 本音, 本心, 本位 differences?

7. Where to use きれい and where to use 美しい

   Like if I want to say it’s a beautiful car

   Will I say これはきれいな車です or will I say これは美しい車です。?

   Please feel free to give me more examples with Explanation

8. Since Reddit does its best to make finding sticky threads hard I’ve started using [posts like this](https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/1nj2yr8/is_this_pronounced_vu_vi_or_both_depending_on_the/) as free advertising.

   My general thinking goes like this:

   Does it break the rules?

   If yes, pin a comment saying so.

   Is there a lot of engagement by the time I see it? If no, lock and hide. If yes, next step.

   Is the question somewhat unique, or is it something we see all the time (e.g. handwriting feedback, where to start etc)? If not very unique but the discussion is somewhat good, hide but don’t lock. If not unique, and the discussion is also nothing new, hide and lock. If somewhat unique AND there’s well developed discussion, just allow it to go with a warning.

   Just keeping things transparent about why things seem to be inconsistently removed.

9. This is really not important but

   器用貧乏

   Does this actually mean “jack of all trades, master of none”? Because searching online gives me pretty unclear results, mostly directing to 1 or 2 mangas where this phrase gets used a ton. The breakdown of the kanji seems more like it means “someone who is very skilled, and yet lives in poverty” which is definitely not the same thing as “jack of all trades”.

10. How many vocab words to learn to watch simple anime?

    Especially if you read manga before hand?

    2000-3000?

11. I bet this has been asked a million times, so I figure I’ll ask the daily thread:

    Are there any good AI apps for studying Japanese? I’m especially interested in conversation, but open to other suggestions. I’m an N2 level, so not looking for basic.

12. Question I’ve seen people say that you need incredible levels of immersion daily and I don’t have the time for that as I want to do more then just learn Japanese everyday

    Is simple levels like an hour daily fine?

    And at what point does one start immersion? Because I am still running through the phonetic alphabets

13. おはようございます！
    I’m using the “kaishi” and the “dictionary of japanese grammar sentences” decks on anki, to study vocabs and grammar structures.

    I would like to ask one thing about anki. With these decks, in particular the “kaishi”, the word comes with a sentence.

    Would you consider learnt a word that you recall the reading and the meaning only when you read the sentence?

    Coming from wanikani I had no sentences in my tests, so I don’t know how to behave on anki.

    ありがとうございます！

14. I don’t understand the 2k/6k deck.
    It seems that it has 2k notes. So why does it have “6k” in its name?

15. NSFW question:

    Why is 巨乳 written きょにゅう and not きょんゆう? Is it a general rule or is this a case by case thing?

16. I might be explaining this confusingly, but how do you differentiate certain words like 描く、怒る、and 止める when reading? All these words have two different readings with no difference in spelling.

    描く (えがく and かく), 怒る (おこる and いかる), 止める (とめる and やめる)

    I watch a lot of Japanese gaming videos, and when the game’s dialouge have these type of words, Japanese people just seem to know which is which without a struggle, so it seems like I’m missing something.

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