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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (March 17, 2025)

  • March 17, 2025

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  2. I don’t think I understand how to use Wanikani correctly. I am a little beyond where wanikani has me at for level 1, so I have just been grinding out the study sessions, but it is not letting me progress or even give me the option to test through some of the lower levels. Am I missing something?

  3. Hello, I recently started learning Japanese as a new year’s resolution. I’ve found I do well with a goal so I’m going to try for N5 this December. I tried last year with Duolingo but beyond rote memorization I didn’t think I was learning much, so I stopped for a few months until starting again this past January.

    This year, I’m trying to be more serious. I’m using Renshuu as my “main” method, along with the 1.5k Anki deck, and Youtube accts such as “Game Gengo” and “Speak Japanese Naturally” for listening practice. Though I only watch one 15-25 min video/day right now to try to avoid burnout.

    Do you think this process will get me to my goal of N5 in December? Is 3 methods at once too many?

  4. Does anyone have any tips about knowing when to use だけ and when to use しか?

  5. I’m really worried about wasting time studying the basics…

    I’ve just started my core 2k/6k deck.
    I learned hiragana/katakana, but I am still practicing.
    I’m about to pick up genki 1
    And Im looking for a way to learn Kanji Correctly

    So I have a few questions for a noob.

    1. Should I learn 2k/6k or just learn genki vocab or both?
    2. Should I learn the kanji in my vocab or use a textbook or app?
    3. What is the best way for me to study Kanji. Is it RTK? Is it WaniKani? Or should I just learn Kanji in my Vocab?
    4. Should I use Genki or a Standalone grammer guide such as TaeKim’s Grammar Guide?

  6. how do you do fellow japanese learners, what’s our favorite 10k anki deck nowadays?

  7. Any advice on how to effectively use 完全マスター文法N2? The N3 version that I used a few years ago was not that big of a problem but for the N2 one none of the grammar points are sticking to my head.

  8. So I learned four ways to conjugate です in the negative present tense, two formal (ではありません and じゃありません）and two simple/casual (ではない and じゃない）。I understand these are a bit nuanced and all carry slightly different tones, but I’m curious: how does じゃないです fit in? It seems to take a casual conjugation (じゃない）and then add the formality back into place with the です on the end. It doesn’t seem like this exists in the past negative conjugation （i.e. no one is saying じゃなかったです) – is this just a quirk of the language?

  9. Hi everyone,

    I am Korean living in Canada, lived most of my life here in Canada but basically my question is:
    I am almost equal parts fluent in Korean and English. Does anyone have any insights on if learning Japanese via Korean or English would make it more efficient or easy to understand by language structure?

    Thanks!

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