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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (March 30, 2026)

  • March 30, 2026

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6 comments

  1. Does anyone have any good strategies or tricks to help with understanding kunyomi and onyomi kanji readings? I’m finding that trying to remember what is what is quite difficult, which I was definitely expecting, maybe a little bit naive and underestimated how difficult it is. 🤣

  2. Seeing as Doomersion is a tad slow, as an N4 learner, is there anything besides Anki and Wagotabi I can do on mobile to get more Japanese in before bed?

  3. What’s the correct way to list items in a sentence concerning food?

    An Example I made ：どんな食べ物が好きですか。例えばピーザとか寿司とパンこの食べ物が好きですか？

    I’ve seen people list with と and とか. Any help is appreciated.

  4. I’ve been having a lot of trouble really understanding the nuance of a lot of “なん” words/phrases.

    More specifically, ones like:

    •なんか/なんて. I have read the descriptions for these and listened to a ton of videos on it, but still am not quite sure when I’d want to use this in a sentence as opposed to just… saying the sentence without it.

    •Ending a sentence with なんだ. For example, そうなんだ, or one from a manga I’ve been reading through, “だから水って嫌いなんだ”. This one specifically I just can’t get why it’s not just 嫌いだ at the end. What nuance is the なん adding?

    • I think this is just the longer version of the above iirc, but なの/なのだ is the same issue. Uncertain why it’s necessary as opposed to just だ at the end.

    Thanks for any help!

  5. Is this correct for “what book are you reading?”

    ”何本を読みますか。“

    And is the 何 here pronounced as なに or なん?

    Thank you!

  6. Hi, I’m learning myself with Minna no Nihongo.
    I got a question, what would be the better way to say this sentence:

    これはだれのかさですか　or
    このかさはだれですか

    The second option sounds more fluid as I’m trying to speak it, in my opinion. But what would be the more common way to speak here?

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