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1. https://preview.redd.it/aj65se8hhvwe1.png?width=1031&format=png&auto=webp&s=bcca963c5a0e50c7fef34023370717cf436b1c90

   Just starting to formally learn Japanese, and I’m going through Genki I right now. I’ve had multiple resources (including Genki itself, I think) tell me that, for the most part, the order in a sentence doesn’t really matter — though you almost always end with a verb.

   So that said, is my answer (C, in red) incorrect here? I was under the impression it meant more or less the same thing as D. Is putting Robert at the front of the statement a matter of politeness or custom? Or is it a hard rule that you open with a subject in these sorts of sentences?

2. I don’t have a real question. But, anyone else who studied a different foreign language before Japanese feel like your brain is trying to redirect you to that language?
   Like, you try to think how to say ‘my name is’ in Japanese and you’re like ‘Ich heiße …no dammit …mein Name ist’?

3. Learning how to use 何も. Does the following sentence mean “I didn’t want to eat anything?”

   何も食べたくなかった

4. How many words from kanji look and learn and both quartet books are shared? Does kanji look and learn have words quartet doesn’t, etc.

5. What is the first を doing here with 何? The transitive verb かける already has a direct object of 所有権, so there being a second direct object is confusing. The context is that two people are fighting over who “owns” a boy, and the boy, who doesn’t like it, thinks this to himself:
   >おい待て。　何を勝手に　俺の所有権をかけてにらみ合ってんだよ…

6. While in Japan for the first time I heavily relied on “できる“ as in “can I do xyz”. So @ the 7-11 I often said カードできますた? And just now I’m realizing that I think I said “can I use my credit card” incorrectly but I’m unsure. 🥲would appreciate clarification 

7. Just a small anki related question. Would 四文字熟語 words be worth adding or would it be more beneficial to just add single/double kanji words. Thanks in advance!

8. I have plenty of motivation to do my Anki reviews but little motivation to do new cards 😅 Even with audio only (no kanji on the front, just the term audio), I have a lot of resistance to starting them. I think it’s because I started making detailed mnemonics, which has been incredible for the strength of my memory, but it also takes more time and brain-racking upfront. As a result I sometimes never open the new cards or only do less than 5, and I want to get closer to 20 new cards a day.

   What do you think I should do? Those of you who don’t use mnemonics at all and take a lot of new cards per day, how’s your retention? Does having the picture and sentence audio from the original source on the back strengthen your associative memory enough? I want to experiment with a separate mining deck and just brute force as many new cards as I can in a day. Since I don’t mind doing my reviews or failing cards, even if my retention goes down, I’ll eventually learn it all.

9. How do i know when I should pronounce 避けるasさけるorよける？

10. ive gotten upto learning kanji at the stage i am but ive been watching some videos on where to start and on one video in particular the dude says its better than instead of learning kanji i learn vocab with the kanji and then as i learn more words and examples with the kanji ill slowly get it and while doing this i learn more vocab and kanji, and the way to practice this was to learn vocab on anki and then going through some anime or any comprehensible piece of material and practice through there

    should i do this or just focus on kanji

11. 水と油のような本来　混ざらないものとも 条件を整えると　きれいに混ざる。

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    昨日船が到着したところ**とも**、また様子が違う。

    Is とも in these 2 sentences not the same as [https://bunpro.jp/grammar_points/%E3%81%A8%E3%82%82](https://bunpro.jp/grammar_points/%E3%81%A8%E3%82%82) ?