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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (February 19, 2025)

  • February 19, 2025

This thread is for all simple questions, beginner questions, and comments that don't need their own post.

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7 comments

  2. With using てすみません can you interchange with てごめん? how do they differ. thank you

  3. Any recommendations for a (native?) italki conversation tutor? I’m currently going through quartet 1 with a tutor and she’s honestly a good teacher for grammar but her personality kinda sucks. I’m looking to add an additional tutor specifically for conversation practice. If they’re an anime nerd that’d be great so that we have a lot in common, but really I’m open to anybody that has a good personality and is able to push me and teach me to say things in more advanced/natural ways.

  4. About います vs あります. Would cars on the highway be います but parked cars あります?

  7. Hello,

    Why does 動く (うごく) seem to have 2 pronunciations, one where the g in ご is pronounced in an odd way?

    From [Forvo](https://forvo.com/word/%E5%8B%95%E3%81%8F/#ja), the pronunciation by ‘strawberrybrown’ is different from the other ones. The same case with the pronunciation from Yomitan’s LanguagePod101, it’s different from the other 2 audio sources.

    Is this a significant thing or is it just an accent or a quirk?

    Thanks.

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