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1. Ayase got asked by her stepbrother, Asamura, what she want for her birthday and she replied 形の残らないプレゼントでいい:

   > 形の残らないプレゼントでいい、と告げたら、浅村くんは驚いた顔を見せた。
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   > でも、もしも**この関係**が終わらないなら、モノに頼らなくても思い出は残る。毎年毎年記憶の中に思い出を降り積もらせることができるのなら、それで充分素敵だと思う。積もり重なった記憶は形あるモノよりも光り輝くと思うから。
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   > そんな風に考えるようになったのは実父のせいだろう。
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   > あの人はとても形にこだわる人だった。
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   > まだ幼い頃、あの人が優しかった頃は、母や私によくプレゼントを贈っていた。会社も従業員のためにと見栄えのするビルにオフィスを移したりと、とにかく形やモノにこだわっていた。変わってしまった後のあの人は、「俺が買ってやった物で生活しているくせに文句を言うのか」なんて言うようになってしまった。
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   > 形に縛られたのだ、あの人は。
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   > だから私は貰もらうなら形のないもののほうがいい。
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   > というのが半分。もう半分は……。
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   > 私は父が出て行ったときの母の背中を覚えている。肩を落とし震わせていたけれど、振り返って私を抱きしめてくれたときには涙さえ見せなかった。私を不安にさせまいとして。
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   > それでも悲しみは伝わってしまう。
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   > 私は**今のこの感情や関係**が、永遠のものだとまでは信じきれずにいる。
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   > もし、**この関係**が終わる日がくるなら、手元に残ったプレゼントを見て切なくなってしまう気がする。だから、形の残らないプレゼントでいい。
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   > 受け取る前から哀かなしい思い出になった後のことを考えるのが自分らしかった。

   Can I say with high certainty that 今のこの感情や関係 and この関係 near the end of this text are the same as the one referred by この関係 near the beginning of this text?

2. Are there any general rules or patterns for when 連濁 applies in a word? I feel like it applies 75% of the time, but I have no idea when a certain reading will be an exception…

3. I was teaching my friend basic n5 grammar and I came across something I didn’t really know the nuance of honestly. Like in my head I thought I knew it but then he asked a question that made me majorly second guess myself.

   We were going over とおもう in genki. Person A says 山下先生はたくさんお金を持っていますか and then you respond with yes or no using とおもいます. He asked if you could say たくさんお金を持っていないとおもいます and I said no and that you’d have to say あまりお金を持っていないと思います because たくさん doesn’t get used with negatives. Then he asked how you can say the あまり sentence as a response, because と is the quotation marker and changing たくさんお金を持つ to あまりお金を持たない shouldn’t work in his mind because it’s no longer the same sentence that と is supposed to be quoting, and therefore wouldn’t mesh with the fundamental function of the grammar point. So the natural follow up was “can you negate おもう to おもいません” and I said no because in the grammar point we were practicing specifically you don’t usually conjugate the おもう (also just gaming the textbook, it obviously very specifically wants とおもいます). I know you CAN say 思いません but it carries a different nuance not appropriate for the context of the practice question of 山下先生はたくさんお金を持っていますか.

   I told him I personally would say あまりお金を持っていないと思います but I wasn’t sure at this point so we asked chat gpt (something I don’t normally like to do). First it said that I was right that you don’t use たくさん with negatives, but then it said that it would say たくさんお金を持っていないとは思いません. When I asked it why it conjugated おもう when you’re not normally supposed to do that, it gave the follow up answer saying とはおもいません is used to negate your belief to say “It’s not my belief that _____ is the case” which I knew already. But again, I gave it the context of the dialogue and that’s not how 思いません is used, but it insisted that was the proper way to say it when I gave it all the background info I just gave in this comment.

   But yeah I said あまりお金を持っていないと思います sounds right to me in the moment, but I wasn’t sure and I’d follow up on reddit to clarify for him. So yeah, if someone smarter than n3 level ol’ me can chime in, it’d be appreciated.

4. Anyone have any jp league youtubers to recommend with non autogenerated cc?

5. What is your opinion on Renshuu’s SRS for vocabulary? I love Anki but since I’ve started using renshuu to practice grammar, I’ve noticed that I can easily add words clicking a “+” symbol and I’m wondering if the SRS might be good

6. Going to japan in 2 weeks for a 3 weeks trip. Looking for ebook recommendations to learn the very basic communication skills. I’m curious to get an intro to kanji, but don’t plan to learn it, so it’s really about learning the language culture, and pronunciation of words.

7. u/Fagon_Drang

   u/Moon_Atomizer

   It’s unlikely that the following thread has been created this weekend, is it?

   🌸🏆日本では、今日は金曜日です！週末は何しますか？（にほんでは、きょうは きんようびです！ しゅうまつは なに しますか？）

8. Hello just a small little confirmation I wanted to know. Is the られる form sometimes used for no other reason than for the sake of being 尊敬語. For example　行かれる , and 行く can mean the same thing just one is being used in a formal setting. For example in this sentence こいつは皆さんおそろいで。どこへ行かれるのでやんしょう？

9. Could someone explain to me why the hell 今日 Is pronunced as kyou? Or why 雑誌 Is ready zasshi?

10. Any book recommendations for kanji and hirigana basics?

    I currently use Japanese Kanji Study (app), Infinite Japanese, Bunpo for hirigana and Kanji. I am looking for a textbook that teaches basic kanji and basic hirigana especially if its grammar and punctuation focused. If it includes furigana thats helpful too as the other textbook i plan to buy is geared for japanese elementary students and of course isnt in english. I’m getting a bit tired of bouncing around between different apps all day too. Thxs

11. I’m currently reading 物語シーリズ and bumping into a specific phrase quite a lot. It goes pretty much as “お前が言ったことじゃないが…”.

    I know what it means by itself but I can’t help but feel there’s something more to it I’m missing. Online searching yields no meaningful results and/or unrelated stuff.

    Full sentence of it being used, for context:

    こういうこと言っちゃ不謹慎なんだろうけどさ…..神原。さっきお前が言った台詞じゃないけど、僕、戦場ヶ原と付き合う前にお前と出会ってたら、案外お前と付き合っていたんじゃないかっと思うよ…..

    I’m aware how it looks like it’s referencing a previous line of dialogue, but I genuinely can’t find/remember anything that makes sense when being referenced over here. It’s always like this everytime this phrase is used.

    I hope I’m not overthinking simple stuff lmao

12. Can someone help me understand だけに here. Which meaning is it?

    「去年の首脳会議で、NATO加盟に向けた道筋は後戻りできないものだと確認していただけに、帳消しになったわけではないにしても、立場が後退したとも取られかねない。」

    I’ve been starting at this sentence for an hour while treading definitions and explanations from various sources but it’s just not clicking. My brain can no feel the nuance at all:

    I understand the nuance perfectly in the 3 samples below and I don’t knows What’s so different about the above sentence compared to the bottom three that makes it so much harser to process and feel

    1.新しい携帯電話が盗まれてしまいました。昨日買ったばかりなだけに、本当にショックだ。

    2. 一度失敗しているだけに、今回は最初からかなり慎重にやっているようだ。

    3. 試験のために一生懸命勉強しただけに、不合格のショックは大きかった。

13. It seems like I have hit a road block in learning Japanese.

    I have read other people’s advice but I’m still not so sure what to do. Conjugating verbs and memorizing grammar is too hard for me.

    I want to think that I am making progress but I feel like I’m not, so if there is anywhere to test my 2-3 months progress please tell me about them!!

    I hope you guys can give me some advice on learning grammar in general,

    Thanks in advance!

14. is animelon not working? every series says “this series is not currently available”. is that just me, or you too?