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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (October 15, 2025)

  • October 15, 2025

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6 comments

  1. If it is, why is 本当にとても恋しいです wrong when trying to express the sentiment “I *truly* miss you *very much*”? Why are both 本当に and とても not appropriately combined here for that purpose?

  2. in the sentence スーパーで肉や野菜などを買いました。
    what does など mean or imply? i was studying this sentence and wasnt able to pinpoint what its doing in there.

  3. Hello!

    I have a quick question. 😀 I’m on chapter 17 of Genki 2 and learning みたいです (It looks like).

    I know difference between みたいです and 見みたいです if its written down. But what happens if this is spoken? How would I tell the difference if someone is saying, “It looks like X” versus “I want to see X”? Would it just be entirely context of the conversation?

    What if in a situation someone said “バットマンみたいです” without any context? How would one know the difference then?

    Thank you so much in advance. 😀 I appreciate it.

  5. This week, I started trying some writing to mix it up a bit, since I usually focus on reading. What I realized was even though I’ve read a lot of the basic grammar a long time ago, when it comes to writing, the structure isn’t intuitive yet and it’s usually related to verbs. For sake of example, if I wanted to use verb + べき, or alternatively, verb + ほうが in a sentence, I don’t know what tense the verb should be in and need to look it up. Is this generally how it is for stringing sentences together? A lot of lookup of individual points to see how they’re used, and imitating example sentences? Or are there certain patterns/memory tricks that may be able to save me from doing a lookup of that exact grammar point every now and then?

  6. Is it best if I study kanji to learn a tiny bit faster or study more efficiently when using Anki or any other website to study? Right now, I only know all hiragana and some katakana, but I have not started kanji yet. I just want to know how important kanji is for someone who does not plan on writing in Japanese, only understand and speak it.

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