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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (June 21, 2025)

  • June 21, 2025

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by Fagon_Drang

11 comments

  2. Is there a reason why [JPDB.io](http://JPDB.io) isn’t included in the starter’s guide? I see WaniKani is listed, but I personally find JPDB much more useful and think it could be a great addition.

  3. Help please… Why is 4 the correct answer and not 1?

    きのう スーパーで 田中さん ( ) 会いました。

    1. を
    2. の
    3. で
    4. に – correct answer

  4. Is there any way to edit the thread so it sorts replies by “newest” by default?

  5. When learning kanji, which do you think is better for flashcards: having the keyword on the front and the kanji on the back, or the other way around? JPDB suggests that putting the keyword on the front is better, but I’m not sure why they recommend that. In my opinion, if I don’t plan to write kanji by hand, it might be more useful to have the kanji on the front, since that’s how I’ll encounter it when reading. What’s your opinion?

  6. For 間, how do I know if I should be using the pronunciation ‘ma’ or ‘aida’?

    Thanks in advance!

  7. I recently came across いらつしやいませ and I’m a little confused at how they get those hiragana to come out as Irasshaimase. I would have thought it would be pronoucned i-ra-tsu-shi-ya-ma-se. I presume the つ is modifying the し sound or something? If anyone knows that would be very helpful to know!

  8. saw this on a post here
    are うん and ですです used both as affirmation?
    ive seen うん used occasionally although never ですです as far as I can recall

  9. 漢字の「夢」が好きです。 is this a correct sentence to say “I like the kanji ‘夢’? 
    I understand that to make something possessive or to say something is of a thing you use the particle の。

    Also, how can i adapt ‘I like’ into, ‘i like it because it looks pretty to see/look at?’ 

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