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1. I have an amazon.co.jp account that I use for manga but would like to start reading novels as I progress through N4 level and into N3. Two very common recommendations I often see are 魔女の宅急便 and 同じ夢を見ていた, but unfortunately neither have furigana.

   Can anyone recommend a novel on Kindle that has furigana?

   Thanks.

2. Hey guys, I’ve recently started a vocabulary deck on Anki to learn a core 1.5k words. After doing some other Kanji learning I find identifying the meaning of the words and example sentences somewhat easy but am finding remembering the readings of the words really difficult.

   Should I just be pushing through with the mentality they of I see a kanji every day I’ll eventually start to remember or Is there something else I should be doing.

   I’m curious to know what people’s processes is when learning a new word, like do you google it and read it in a few sentences first, or is there something better I can be doing?

   Keen for any advice I can get early in my journey.

3. Is there a pattern to when onomatopoeia or similar repetitive sound words can be (commonly) used as な adjectives?

   Edit: for example ツルツルな頭 ツルツルした頭 etc

4. If I’m at a place (like a shrine) and want to ask a stranger whether it’s open, how would I do that? My best guess would be something like:

   > [済](#fg “す”)みません、ここは[開](#fg “ひら”)いていますか？

   > OR

   >[済](#fg “す”)みません、この[場所](#fg “ばしょ”)は[開](#fg “ひら”)いていますか？

   Is there a better way to ask? Thanks!

5. From Kokoro ch 33,

   > 飯になつた時、奧さんは傍に坐つてゐる下女を立たせて、自分で給仕の役をつとめた。これが表立たない客に對する先生の家の仕來りらしかつた。始めの一二囘は私も窮屈を感じたが、度數の重なるにつけ、茶碗を奧さんの前へ出すのが、何でもなくなつた。

   I have doubts with につけ after 度數の重なる. It doesn’t mean と?

6. Okay I’ve come to the conclusion that fsrs maybe thinks I’m stupid because I’ve always marked grammar cards as hard just because I wanted refreshers on them more often. Could that be why I have so many more reviews now? Could this have averaged it out into the review ratio of my regular cards?

7. I bought the “Japanese for beginners Learn to speak, read and write the basics” book by Takumi Nonaka. Is it good for learning japanese?

8. Hello, I’m working on an action-roguelike to learn Japanese and was wondering if I could create a post to ask for feedback on it?

   Here’s the game in case you want to check it out first [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2642830/PERAPERA_Mountain/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2642830/PERAPERA_Mountain/)

   Edit: u/Moon_Atomizer tagging you for visibility. What I would like to ask mainly is feedback from beginner learners on the current closed demo of the game.

9. hey mods, is wiki down or something? I tried opening it on Firefox as well as Chrome but it says “Page does not exist”.

10. I have been running an experiment for 3 months where I kind of “cheat” with SRS.

    Meaning I hit “Easy” almost as the default, and hit “Hard” for near misses like I got the reading slightly wrong or the meaning wasn’t quite right. “Okay” only when I really had to think hard but got it right otherwise. And I’m pretty forgiving with the “meaning” in general, i.e. if I had thought something like “suspicions” but it was “suspicious” I just mark it as “Easy” counting on context to give me the right word here during input.

    The idea was to keep reviews down, without stressing too much about perfecting cards or having the strictest review schedule as input would round out understanding and give me more repetitions in-between reviews. While also adding a ton of cards to have them floating in my noggin and allowing me to make more connections between words. And letting me do more reading without having to let a ton of words go without any review at all.

    I do this in JPDB, but for the sake of nicer stats and review forecast I exported the review history to Anki.

    Some stats:

    Cards added from Feb 16th to today: 5049 (about 64 cards daily)

    Mature: 4822

    Average reviews over the period: 400 per day

    Average retention: 84.1%

    Overall I’m pretty happy with the method as it lets me cram way more words into my head than what I was doing before where I was more strict on the reviews without blowing up my review count. I don’t know how it will work out in the end but seeing as people have learned without any SRS at all I’m not so worried about ruining my progress. Is anyone else doing or has done something similar? Any reason to think this might be a bad idea after all?

11. 「ああ！　ほら！　焦げてる！　お米が焦げたらそれは焼き飯です！」

    「チャーハンは炒めてこそのチャーハンなんです！」

    trying to understand this, aren’t 焼き飯 and チャーハン the same? but she’s like making a distinction here right?

12. From Kokoro ch. 34,

    私はもう卒業したのだから、必ず九月に出て來る必要もなかつた。然し暑い盛りの八月を東京迄來て送らうとも考へてゐなかつた。私には位置を求めるための貴重な時間といふものがなかつた。

    Does 位置 here means something like 仕事? The narrator is saying that he had no reason to return to Tokyo because it was too early for him to find a job?

13. Can someone please break down the conjugations in these lyrics? (I guess that’s the verb suru?)

    努力しちゃっててごめん

14. https://preview.redd.it/vgf1w63c0d2f1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c924dfccfcd0247abb6fa5761a2bd4c76a811b83

    Is this a bug in Tsurukame? I try riyoku and riki and neither works, but it works if I copy and paste the hiragana from the reading

15. I apologize for the lengthy comment in advance.

    So i just want some advice on how to proceed on my learning journey , i had 2 elementary Japanese classes in my uni while starting out my bachelor degree this year , but my program doesnt allow me more than 2 , so i cant take more until im done with my degree .

    For context, Rn i have a 3-4 months summer break where i want to study jp on my own both to not lose progress i made and also to try and learn more before i get back to uni and have little to no time for that. At my university they use the first minna no nihongo for all of their japanese classes (elementary1 , elemntary 2 , intermediate1 … till advanced 2) not sure how they do that since i read that it covers only up to N5 but oh well .

    Ressources im using / planning to use :

    During my classes we went through the first 13 lessons in the book and learned roughly a 100 kanjis, right now im reading the grammar lessons and vocab in the book as practice but not really doing the exercises since im probably gonna get bored if i go hard on the textbook route on my own instead of with a class .Yesterday I downloaded the kaishi 1.5k deck for vocab and kanji learning and the jlab beginner’s course for grammar (also checking Tae kim’s guide when i dont get something) and planning to watch comprehensible japanese along with some other youtubers . I found as well someone teaching japanese while playing stardew valley and since i like the game i thought that might be worth a watch as well. Im trying to read stories from tadoku since the lower level ones are simple enough along with reading slice of life manga , although im wondering if it’s too early to read slice of life manga since i started reading kimi ni todoke (i watched the first season of the anime before so i roughly know what it’s about) and i have to pretty much look up words on every other panel which gets a bit exhausting .

    Not sure if this is a solid plan or if i would just overwhelm myself with such stuff…

    I also would like some advice from other busy people for later on when i get back to uni , as i barely get time for hobbies during the semester if at all because im in a bit of a ruthless program lol and im afraid of losing all the progress i made with classes this year and whatever progress im gonna achieve during the summer. The only thing i can think of is maybe going through my anki decks whenever im on the bus but im not sure if that will be enough