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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (January 04, 2025)

  • January 4, 2025

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7 comments

  1. Google Lens apparantly broke on yomininja, so i tried google cloud vision out. The scanning is picking up the words, but Yomitan isn’t grabbing the words like it did for google lens. is there a way to fix this?

  2. I was playing a game and ran into this line of dialogue なるほど、腐ってもCEOというわけか。can someone help me understand what というわけ does here? the entire sentence is なるほど、腐ってもCEOというわけか。 リン、僕のほうで直ちに クレタ達へ協力を仰いでみる if that helps

  4. Is learning Kana in Japanese similar to learning the alphabet? Do I need to learn both Hiragana and Katakana at the same time?

  5. Could someone please help me understand what the male character is saying between 00:14 and 00:20 in [this linked youtube video](https://youtu.be/tAoXt2QePn0?t=14)?

    He is staring at a painting that しいな made and realizing that she should continue painting.

    It sounds like he is saying something like:

    椎名は、芸術の世界をもどれてきた

    I can understand why 戻る would be used here because he thinks she needs to return to the art word. What I don’t understand is why it sounds like を is used rather than に, why it is used in the potental form, and why きた is used rather than いく. It seems like she would be going away from him so I don’t see why くる is appropriate. I also don’t understand why きた was used rather than くる. I don’t think he’s taking about somethign in the past.

    Cound someone please correct what I heard if it was wrong as I suspect?

    Thanks

  6. For someone moving to Japan with their Japanese spouse, how should I prepare myself for learning as much meaningful information about general Japanese that will get me going in public? I don’t mind struggling in front of people, learn as you go.

    Is it a good idea to focus on listening/speaking rather than listening, speaking, Reading, and writing at the same time?

  7. Hi what’s the difference between Bunpro and Renshuu and would you recommend one over the other?

    I know hiragana/99% katakana, started on kanji with Wankikani (I just bought the lifetime).

    Wondering anything else I should pick up, like the Bunpro lifetime? I heard there’s vocabulary in there now. Or try Renshuu? 

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