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1. Context: description of a fictional board game similar to 将棋.

   かなり複雑なルールがあるようだが、要するに相手の陣地内にどちらがより多く自分の駒を**侵入させられる**かを競うゲームだ。

   This is causative potential, not causative passive, right? Because it wouldn’t make sense if it were passive unless I’m missing something…

2. hi, may i know if **が**決まった　and **と**決まった　are the same? when do we use which?

3. Is “washite” a Japanese word? Is there a word for the pronunciation of Washite (a as in father, i as in we, and e as in eh) is there a word similar to what i’m looking for?

4. When do you actually USE あそぶ (play)? No matter how much my teacher explains it, I still don’t get it. Most of the time, when we’re practicing translating from English to Japanese, whenever the sentence says “play” we usually use する instead of あそぶ.

5. When do you think it’s good to start learning through immersion? Watching Japanese shows or videos with Japanese subtitles, listening to music etc. I’m still very new to the language but I do want to incorporate it at some point. Is there a time you will just know it’s good to do or should you start early with children programs that are more simple to grasp?

6. Is there a good tip to stop mouthing off words when reading？I find myself breathing differently while reading constantly while also mouthing my tongue even though I have it pressed against the top of my mouth. Stuff such as letting out a small breath everything a っ comes along a か. I feel as though it is slowing down my reading because I feel as if I need to pronounce these characters with some sort of mouthing movement/pause and I get stuck on the word or sentence although if I would read it out loud or mouthing the words, it’s not as big as an issue. I don’t have this problem when reading english whatsoever, only in Japanese.

7. Are there any recommended games or manga that are good for learning? Most language learning games just feel like a chore as I have to fill a quota every day. I want to put the knowledge to use such as progressing a game or start understanding the language with a protagonist.

8. ここから見た富士は、むかしから富士三景の一つにかぞえられているのだそうであるが、私は、あまり好かなかった。好かないばかりか、軽蔑さえした。

   What’s the 好かない here? jisho.org is telling me it may be an alternate kanji of 良くない. Is that the right reading, よくない？

9. so following TMW’s 30 day japanese guide on the [passive listening immersion part on day 10](https://learnjapanese.moe/routine/#day-10), the suggestion of the guide is using a condensed audio from anime, aside from anime, can i also listen to japanese podcasts for my passive listening immersion? or is listening to japanese podcasts considered active listening immersion?

10. [Text in question](https://litter.catbox.moe/v5d8ch.png)

    Is this odd symbol an old repeater standing in for 切々 (but backwards)? It doesn’t look like the couple of hentaigana or old repeater symbols I recognize/can easily google. The source is late 60s, with the writer born in the 30s, so I’m assuming it’s a prewar holdover.

11. What are some recommended Decks that cover the core four thousand or five thousand words? I installed a couple from Ankiweb too, but they seemed to run into mistakes after a few Cards, so I’d love any that folks here could vouch for.

12. First week at a language school. It’s like a marathon of all the stuff I need to learn to reach n2 level, starting from my current level. 75 words, 12 grammar patterns, plus all the other new words I encountered for the first time—all in three days. I have never studied this much before. Hahaha. For the others who also have just started language school, how are you?

13. Hello!

    I ran into two sentences in Genki 1 workbook that I have questions for.

    1) For this sentence: 別に大変じゃないです。I just have a quick question about what the 別に is doing to the following part of the sentence: 大変じゃないです。

    My guess is that 別に is an emphasis and saying its “Not particularly” hard? Am I correct about this?

    2) For this sentence: 大人は赤色，子供は青い色のTーシャツを着ています. I’m just confused about the grammar structure. This is my first time seeing a sentence start off: 大人は赤色，子供は. Why isn’t there no connection like with て or something? Is this a double は (to introduce two subjects)? If so, how does it work and is it common in Japanese?

    Thank you! I appreciate your time :D.

14. Hi

    One of my weakest points in this language might be informal oral speech so I hope someone can help me understand this little exchange:

    「買い物だ?」

    「戦争帰りだかなんだか知らないけど、こうして戻って来たからには社会の一員として歯車になりなさいて事じゃんよ」

    「人使いの荒い事で」

    The part I’m specifically having trouble is that last bit. I know that “人使いの荒い” acts like a modifier but, I feel like “事で” is completely disconnected from everything else and holds no meaning.

    Could that mean the person speaking got suddenly interrupted?

    I can provide more context, if necessary.

15. 生命　いのちvsせいめい

    I know that 命 is いのち and I accept the truth that 生命 is also いのち, but does the meaning change when it is read as せいめい?

    Thank you.

16. Sooo…

    I have a lot of downtime at my job, probably like 5 hours of doing…not much. Are there any online resources I can use to study online?

    I’m doing Anki every day but given how much time I could use to study, I’d love to do any sort of grammar or whatever else as well.

17. Hello everybody. Is Anki for vocab + Bunpro for grammar + Wanikani for kanji too much for beginner?

    And can somebody recommended some good grammar resources or youtube channels?

18. 昨日の事は、何も覚えてない

    昨日は、何も覚えてない

    What is the difference between these two sentences? According to Google Translate the first one reads “I don’t remember anything about yesterday” and the second one reads “I don’t remember anything from yesterday.”

    I’m confused though because 事 means “thing” but I’m not sure how it translates to the changes listed? Especially since 昨日の事は & 昨日は both translate to just yesterday? I know 事 is a much more abstract term but I’m sure there’s some sort of logic to it’s usage in these two examples?

19. what is the difference between ” 毎日、日本語の勉強をします ” and ” 毎日、日本語を勉強します ” ? Is it just that second one sounds more natural or is the first one wrong and shouldn’t be used? The first one was what I came up with when I tried to translate it on my own.

20. I’m having a lot of trouble with あと in this sentence: このレポートはあと結論を書くばかりだ。 what grammar point is this? It clearly can’t be omitting a で but it seems the ばかり is implying that it is the only thing left to do, so what is あと doing here?

21. Does anyone have a good explanation why the second-to-last stroke in 考 goes right-to-left? I always get it wrong and/or confuse it with left-to-right as in e.g. 写. A good reason would help me memorize the stroke order.

    Are they not the same radical/component?

22. Can someone tell me if I’m on the right track with my japanese studies and/or share their routine maybe.

    1. I started with Duolingo but phasing it out slowly, I’m at 2-12 right now. I did focus on Hiragana and Katakana in the beginning a lot. I can read without many problems but really slowly in both kanas. Right now I just do the daily quests and that’s it. 15-20 minutes max per day goes to Duo.

    2. I immerse by watching japanese news live every day for about 10-15 minutes I’d say, I do it while working out mainly so only approximating the time when I rest and I read a few children books sparingly on tadoku. I watch anime but with subtitles it’s not really immersion.

    3. I do Anki, I have the All-In-One Kanji deck with all idk those standard kanji, shojou or joyo or something, the 2.3k vocab deck (of most frequent used words in light novels) and a radical deck that was recommended by All-In-One Kanji deck author with all 214 or something radicals. I do all 3 simultaneously, always doing it either before sleep or afetr waking up, this takes a lot of time. I’m up to 2 hours+ daily review already with 20 new words every day.

    4. I tried Genki 1 but only 3, 4 times. It’s such a drag to study grammar idk. I’m at page 90 right now.

    I am 35 days in right now. Wondering if I do it efficiently for the 2-3 hours I am able to use for the studies daily.

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