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1. How much should i know before i jump into a game?

   So i feel like i learn skills the best by just being thrown into the fire. I know all about anki so i feel like playing through a game and throwing unknown kanji onto a card and reviewing those in my downtime at work would be a great experience.

   Now i know i need to learn hira and kata, some grammer and vocab, sentence structure, and probably a handful of basic kanji before i do anything.

   I just want to know how much would i need to know to be ready to jump in and struggle my way through something.

   Also sub question, any good language learning games? I feel like i see ads for japanese learning games all the time and then see reviews for them later saying they are shit. Are there any decent ones that teach the basics well?

2. Do people not really use 一つずつ in practice?

   I’ve used it a few times on a current trip and each time I’ve been asked in return 「二つ？」 – I wasnt sure initially if they were just clarifying, but I’ve started gesturing to me and my partner as I say it, and I’m still getting the same response.

   Idk are they just checking i know what I’m asking for? Or is me using ずつ weird for some reason here?

3. Happy Holidays! 🎅

   I’ve heard that eating KFC is a Christmas tradition in Japan.That still surprises me a bit. Is there a specific reason why this started?

4. Is there any easy or relatively consistant/reliable way to know when I’ve learned and studied a grammar point enough to move on to a new point or the next jlpt level?

   I’ve been studying grammar through two separate apps mostly. A general grammar study app split up by jlpt levels then lessons within those levels, and that genki conjugations app because I struggle with those. Roughly once or twice a week I go through the lessons I’ve done and write down what I still don’t understand. Each day I revise those lessons or redo the quizzes depending on how much I do or don’t understand each point. For any verb or adjective conjugations I do them in the genki app instead because it works better in my brain.

   At this point I’ve finished all N5 points and just reviewing a few. But I don’t know what point I should move on to N4. I feel like I can’t move on to n4 till I’m perfect at everything in n5. But the issue is I’m revising the n5 stuff so much I’m starting to memorize the questions themselves instead of what I’m supposed to be learning. That’s why I think I need to move onto n4 to add more questions to the revisions so I can’t memorize them subconsciously. But I’m also worried that if I move on while still revising n5 points I’ll get overwhelmed by the number of revisions.

   I’m at a point where I get most n5 questions correct, with maybe one or two wrong (per ~10-15 questions) but about half the time it’s from typos and not actual grammar mistakes. So, should i study n5 till I’m not making any mistakes? Or should I start n4? Is there a general rule for when a grammar point has been reviewed enough to move on to the next one? By that i don’t mean stop revising and start a different one, I mean continue revisions of old points but add new things to the schedule.

   Just, like, how do I know if I need to keep actively studying something or if it’s okay to be moved to revisions only?

   (Sorry for any typos, my phone keyboard is broken)

5. A N4 learner here who knows the basics of conditional form (~たら). Can a kind soul tell me whats the difference between されたら and されてたら? I get that される is the passive form of する but am confused why the て got added to the conditional form

   For context, I am a native English speaker and I saw this in a Japanese TV series (灯里が盗撮されてたらどうするんだ) and online language sites don’t seem to have much references to it

6. I found this sentence in Shinkanzen N3 book:
   自分のことをすごい、すごいとあまり自慢しないほうがいいです。
   What is the purpose of the particle を in this sentence ? Did it mark the object 自分のこと for the verb しない？
   And why is すごい written after を？

7. Is the vowel always dropped between 2 voiceless consonants? (t/k/p/s/sh)

   Just something I noticed when doing wanikani.

   Also, why does that happen? personally I don’t find it more difficult to say いしころ than いしころ with full “shi” instead of “sh”.

8. Is it worth the time learning a word’s kanji when Yomitan has that red “kana” tag indicating it’s written with kana most of the time? How “most of the time” is that really?

   Especially when it’s not an onyomi reading it feels like the juice is not worth the squeeze. At least I know onyomi will be useful for other compounds, but for a word like 微か (かすか) it’s just a wago word wearing a hat and 微 doesn’t seem to be read かす anywhere else, just like most kunyomi readings.

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