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hii friends- quick question I’ve been wondering now for a whilee. what does it mean when verbs have 見る added to them? what does it add to the sentence? I’ve tried to pick it up via context clues but I haven’t quite discerned a pattern.
example sentence: これ 試しに作って見たんだ
tyy
Edit:
Never mind I’m dumb. The deck uses the same nouns and verbs in many different cards, so I guess that’s how it sticks eventually.
Original message:
I’m a few days into doing the JLAB anki deck. It’s the only Anki deck that I’m doing after trying also Kaishi 1.5k and Ankidrone foundation, and I found the JLAB is really n+1.
It doesn’t try to teach too much at the same time and I just had an easier time with it so I went with it.
JLAB is supposedly a grammar deck but promises ~1000 vocab too.
The problem that I have with the vocab though, is that I’m pretty sure I’m only recalling the nouns and verbs because of the image and kinda the voice of the character. Not really the syllables. Does that make sense? Wouldn’t Anki kinda always work that way?
Like, I was just able to translate from Japanese to English the card that says “I will decide”. But I can’t recall how it was said in japanese, and I’m pretty sure if I heard it in another voice I would not be able to recall it either.
How do people deal with this?
I have a question about tense usage. In an anime I was watching, a guy saw that a fight was about to happen. He went behind a corner and started cowering, saying “見てないよ、僕何も見てない”. I don’t understand why he used ていない for something that just happened. I expected him to say “何も見なかった” instead. My best guess is that he wanted to emphasize being in the state of having not seen anything.
I accidentally purchased a Chinese/Mandarin edition of a Try! N2 JLPT study book some years back and have been hoping to offload it to someone who’d actually be able to make use of it. Not looking to sell (at most I would just want the cost of shipping), so is there anyplace I might be able to find someone willing to take it off my hands? It’d be a bit of a shame to toss an unused book.
Hi! I’m new here and looking to give away about 20 Japanese textbooks, ranging from basic to advanced. I’d love for someone in Seattle to pick them up. Is it okay to post this in the general forum, or should I post it here?
whats the usual way to call the meals in japan? in genki, they introduced them as the gohan version: 朝ごはん, 昼ごはん and 晩ごはん but all the audios i have listened for practice, tend to use the “shoku” version 朝食, 昼食 , 夕食. which is more commonly used?
Jrpgs usually have a cool fantasy font that Yomininja can’t properly identify parts of and it gets even worse when I’m emulating older games with lower resolutions. Is there anything I can do about this other than deal with it?
I’ve heard:
みんなここにいます
Why not:
みんなはここにいます
like in
彼はここにいます
I think I cannot say:
彼ここにいます
unless I speak very casually.
Sorry guys I just need to rant.
I’ve just gotten started learning some more kanji and it’s breaking my mind.
Like why does 日 have so many different pronunciations? ひ、び、にち、か、じつ、and god knows what else, I’ve only seen these so far.
Or 下: した、さ、くだ、か、お.
How am I even supposed to differentiate between pronunciations when I recognize the kanji.
I’ll have a baconator with a small fry