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1. Hi everyone, started learning japanese 2 days ago and learned all hiragana and katakana, i can read although slow, i cant think of some kana on top of my head, and i cant write most of them but i will improve on them.
   Any recommendations to help me learn to read faster and write? Also should i start learning commonly used kanji immediately or should i improve on reading kana faster and writing it first?

2. Hello, I have a question about this sentence: これは去年 の 私が海でとった写真です。

   Can anyone explain why が is used in there and not を or の? Thank you in advance!

3. Hey folks! I am looking for a very specific kind of program or app – one that I don’t even know if it actually exists, I can only describe what I want it to do.

   So I have a Firefox addon that lets me highlight Japanese text in my browser and it pops up a translation, I’m sure most of you in this community are familiar with such utilities. I’m looking for something I can install on my PC that will allow me to do that in other programs, specifically ones not designed to let you highlight text at all. Basically I’m trying an immersion method by changing video games to Japanese and trying to parse the text, but I’m not quite at a level yet where I can understand enough to do so unassisted. I’d like a crutch I can use till I can wean myself off it.

   Like I said, not sure that’s even a real thing, it’s just something I’d like to use if it does exist.

   If that’s too obscure (as I suspect), my plan B is something I actually do know exists: a phone app that’ll let me point at Japanese text and have it translated on screen. If that’s what I have to resort to, what apps in particular are familiar and recommended here?

   Thanks!

4. Annoying side affect of getting better at Japanese, I can’t tune it out as white noise anymore. Sitting next to my co-workers while they bitch about work when I’m trying to read something or do work is annoying.