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1. The context is, Hachi and Nana are friends who live together. One night, a guy whom Hachi likes stays over. The next morning, Nana is gone and there is a friendly note from Nana telling Hachi to always lock the door and to always check who it is before opening the door. Hachi thinks to herself:

   Hachi: 次の朝目を覚ますともうナナはいなくて

   テーブルの上に書き置きがあった

   別に寂しがるほどのことじゃない

   スタジオに行けばいつでも会えるし

   たったの２週間だ

   ２週間経てば戻ってきてくれるよね？

   Tofugu says [here](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/i-adjective-garu/) that it’s possible to use ~~寂し~~がる to talk about yourself, and there’s also a stack exchange answer [here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/92895/understanding-%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B-used-to-talk-about-the-speaker-himself) that seems to say it’s used when objectively looking at oneself.

   Does 別に寂しがるほどのことじゃない in this case mean “It’s not anything to feel sad about” or does it mean “It’s not anything to behave like/act sad about”. Maybe the second option involves something like others’ perception of oneself? I’m also thinking about 強がる where we act brave even though we may not feel brave.

   Edit: typos

2. I’m thinking of going through Genki to get a better understanding of grammar, so I wanted to ask- how quickly should I progress? A chapter a day? Two?

3. There are some simplified-traditional Chinese character pairs that exist in modern Japanese as separate entities. For example, (机,機) and (叶,葉). Are there any more such examples?