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Been using bookwalker on my android tablet for reading manga and I’ve found I can’t highlight the words in the manga to look them up? Anyone else have this issue or know a fix?
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three unrelated questions:
for ellipses, is 。。。 or ．．．or ••• more common? I’ve seen all of them being used, so I don’t know which one is technically the “right” or standard way.
when do people use different brackets? is there a reason or is it just a stylistic choice? e.g. 「」『』【】〔〕
is there a pattern to know when words end in “ou” like 「___そう」for example and not just something like 「__そ」? is it a case by case basis or is there an actual pattern that i can look for?
Is there a yomitan dictionary that includes radicals for kanji?
Has anyone else been disconnected from Koohii out of nowhere and no longer have functional passwords for some reason? I’ve been using it alongside my RTK study, but it sounds like the website just stopped working completely
Anyone here that used the Kaishi 1.5k deck (or similar) and stuck with it, what resources, books, etc. did you use after?
I’m currently halfway through the deck (Anki) and am wondering what steps I should take after that. I plan to take the N3 either June/December 2026, once I finish my exchange year in Japan.
I am cooked for the N3 this week. I wasn’t able to understand to two ‘so-called’ N3 texts today. I translated with Google Translate and even in my native language, it wasn’t easy topics. I’m so ready to not get it.
> めでたくジェメイン兄弟は再会を果たした。2人が再会の喜びを分かち合ったところで、ギルバートのほうと話をしてみよう。
ところで is the point I’m having trouble with. I thought it meant something close to “even if ~” or “no matter how much ~” when coming after a verb in the past tense. But that doesn’t seem to make sense here.
# あなたは あめりかじん ですか°
Is that how you ask if you’re American?
—Anata wa amerikajin desuka °
In Ttsu Reader, can I change the font to a sans serif one or is the font choice baked into each .epub file?
I see the option to define which serif and sans serif font you want in the settings, but no way to actually switch between them.
In the fourth sentence, what does “から” in “高校生になってから” do? It looks like it makes a predicate out of the sentence “高校生になって”, so “君と出会えたの” is the subject of the sentence and “高校生になってから” is the predicate. (Then, で is the copula and よかった is another sentence.) I’d roughly translate the fourth sentence like, “Being able to meet you was after we became high school students, which is good.” However, I’ve never heard of this function of から that lets it nominalize sentences.
>A: ２人は ずっと前からの知り合いなんだよね。
>B: ああ。 出会いは小学校５年生の春だ。
>A (thinking to herself): ２人にも小学生のときがあったんだ。
>B: 君と出会えたのが 高校生になって**から**でよかったよ。
I’m not really sure what wanikani is but the majority of the words I am looking up on Jisho for Kanken level 2 don’t have a wanikani level.
I am a huge basketball fan and was thinking about doing (in part) immersion through B.League games, particularly after I found out there is a team from my (US) state’s sister prefecture whose color scheme and style of play is modeled after my local team lol. Good idea? Bad idea? My main barrier of entry right now seems to be figuring out how to watch the games to be honest.
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