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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPsg6sdrN6M&list=WL&index=1&t=16s
The top comment on this video mentions “Primed Listening,” where a script pauses a video each time subtitles would appear, shows you the subtitles for a moment, then plays the video without them. I would like to try this, but on Crunchyroll/personal videos instead of Disney/Netflix.
Are there any resources I can use to do this? ASBPlayer? Some other extension/script?
The correct sentence is: たけしさんのでんわばんごう
Why isn’t it the other way around? Like でんわばんごうのたけしさん
I’m confused because it seems like the subject of other sentences comes at the end of the sentence instead of the beginning.
Looking for recommendations of a series to watch while reading the closed captioning because I’m wanting to up my reading speed a bit – anything good on Netflix lately for the older crowd?
I am a bit of a picky tv watcher – I’m hoping for something for adults (but not in an adult content way, just in a not aimed at teenagers way), funny and heartwarming rather than dramatic and tragic, I’m not a huge fan of reality dating type shows but maybe another type of reality show would be okay. Level-wise I can generally understand stuff, it’s the reading component that I’m wanting to work on and I find reading along to someone speaking works well for me.
Thanks!
By my own incompetence I missed the deadline for the December 2025 JLPT. I am now commited to not only taking but PASSING N1 in summer 2026.
First goal: Finish reading my current novel by the end of October.
前から同じことを百回言っている気はしますが、元来、日本語は、
空青し
のように、主語-述語構造がないのが、デフォルト。
主格だ、対格だが、ない、そういう日本語のデフォルト値のときに、係り結びがある。
〇 空 こそ 青けれ
〇 空 ぞ 青き
〇 空 いかでか 青き
などなどなどなど。
なーんだけども、鎌倉時代とか室町時代とかになってくると、格助詞ってものがぽかすか使われるようになり、格構造ってのが、日本語でもある程度、はっきりしてくる。日本語とはいえ、ある程度は、論理的に情報を伝達するようになってくる。
格助詞が入るようになると、
〇 空 が 青い Nominative→Predicate
ってなり、論理構造ができてしまうので、係助詞を入れて係り結びするってことはできなくなる。
× 空 が こそ 青けれ
× 空 が ぞ 青き
× 空 が いかでか 青き
などなどは非文。なので、係り結びは消滅。
ちょっとシンクロニシティか(笑)。Good reading.
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>ある日、私は研究室のセミナーで発表を終えた後、例の指導教官の先生にこう尋ねました。 「先生、先日のお発表はいかがでしたでしょうか。先生のおご意見をお聞かせいただけますと幸いです」
>完璧だ、と私は心の中でガッツポーズをしました。尊敬と謙譲、そして丁寧さをすべて盛り込んだ、これ以上ないほど丁寧な日本語のはずでした。しかし、またしても先生の眉間には、あのさざ波が走ったのです。そして、こうおっしゃいました。「発表、とても良かったですよ。ただ、少しだけ……そうですね、丁寧すぎるかもしれませんね」
>私は再び混乱の淵に突き落とされました。なぜ？ 丁寧すぎてはいけないのか？ 友人の解説はこうでした。「『ご意見』や『お聞かせ』はいいんだ。でも、『お発表』は言わないな。まるで幼稚園の先生みたいに聞こえるよ」。
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Can someone help me break down the ‘de no go’ part? I learned that ‘no’ connects two nouns, but the ‘de’ in front is confusing. Also not too sure what ‘go’ means in this context.
Got a question about the anki sentence I came across” 夏休みももう終わりだ. ” what does” もも”there means?
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