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Hi!
I reached out a few months back about my free japanese learning platform, [QuizLingua](https://quizlingua.com/), and got turned down, i think there was a misunderstanding about the “premium” aspect, just to clarify: the app itself is completely free, always has been, always will be, the only paid stuff is purely cosmetic (chat colors and quiz UI skins, that kind of thing). Nothing that affects or restricts the actual learning experience.
I’ve been working on it a lot since then! Revamped the UI and added three new practice modes: Sentence Builder, Grammar Practice, and Vocabulary Fill-ins so it’s not just a quiz app anymore, I’d genuinely love to get some feedback from the community to keep improving it.
Would this qualify for a post now? Sorry for the double ask, and happy new year!
I’ve been stuck in perpetual beginner hell for the past few years, usually because I deprioritize the language and then get caught back up. To counter this, I want to start consuming media, but my listening is so far behind my reading and most of my vocab/grammar
All that is to say, when watching a show and encountering a sentence I don’t fully understand, is it better to pause and deconstruct what the sentence is saying as best as I can based on the substitles, or just listen to it in real time and absorb what I can?
For what it’s worth, while I understand the gist of what’s happening, I feel like I’m missing the majority of what’s being said in real time.
I’m finding it real hard to take the step between my N4 level textbook knowledge and comprehensible input, so any advice would be appreciated!
Hey I’m getting back into it and having trouble keeping these mixed up. Can someone help me get these straight and tell me the difference?
近い
近く
近づく
The first two apparently mean near/nearby, and the third one means to get near. Why is the third one a verb but the second one isn’t? And are the first two used in similar cases or are they almost like homophones? One is apparently a noun and one is an adjective but both of the example sentences seem interchangeable in use honestly, just different conjugation.
Thanks in advance!
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