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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (March 08, 2026)

  • March 8, 2026

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  1. Context: During the night, one person among the group will be selected as a sacrifice. The speaker wakes up and realizes that he was not selected. He reflects that there’s no way to know if remaining alive is the result of his actions, or pure random chance.

    >「・・・朝を迎えた、ということは・・・。・・・ふむ。・・・どうやら、最初の生贄は逃れたということらしい。・・・ルーレットの目が幸運だったのか、・・・我が努力の賜物なのか・・・」
    「区別の付かぬところが何とももどかしいが、それは言うまい。 」

    My question is regarding それは言うまい (I understand that 言うまい is just 言わない). I thiiink I get the nuance of “I won’t worry about / be bothered that I can’t distinguish between these two things” but even if that interpretation is correct (I’m not sure if it is), I don’t understand why それは言わない can mean that. Depending on the context, can 言わない normally carry a nuance of “I’m not going to worry about that” or is this an usual construction?

  2. In Hollow Knight Silksong there’s this area called Shellwood which was localized as 殻木の森 – how would you read this? からきのもり? かくもくのもり?

    More generally, how do you know how to read made-up fictional compounds? Do you generally just go for the most common onyomi for each kanji?

  3. Hi, so im kinda at a standstill in my learning and was looking for recommendations on 2 things.
    1. Im looking for an app to teach me the jplt vocabulary? I have a good one for the kanji, but i realized that’ll the jplt is way more that just that (ive tried asking but I was curious about alternative.

    2 I was looking for a good app to read japanese articles from and learn from them. Ive tried Shinobi and Yomu you, and they both work really well, however their subscriptions are a bit pricey, I was looking for one that was a bit cheaper or maybe had a one time payment option? The core of what k was is to immersion learn and be able to click on words and add them to a flashcards deck within the app

    Any help would be great. Thank you!

  4. Hi everyone! I grew up in Japan and I’m curious about your Japanese learning journey.

    What are your goals with learning Japanese?
    What do you dream of doing once you become fluent?

    Also, what challenges are you facing right now?
    What parts of Japanese are the most difficult or frustrating for you?

    Feel free to share anything about your experience learning Japanese. I’d love to hear your stories!

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