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I am not sure what 友情のスタンプラリー means in お土産は友情のスタンプラリー. Is スタンプラリー used in metaphorical sense?
https://imgur.com/a/L6u3oJF
As context, when asked what she think about the person referenced by 師匠, she responded 好きかもしれない and the other girl thought it was a sign of progress.
What might かかる mean in これは師匠かかっちゃうでしょうねー?
Could someone please explain [this joke from Ninja Sentai Kakuranger](https://imgur.com/a/A5T15q1) to me? I think it may be a nursery rhyme reference that doesn’t translate to U.S. English.
For context, the heroes have just been fooled by a monkey villain who duplicates their moves, and they are upset about how naive they were.
Thank you in advance!
“そちらにスイカのタッチをお願いします” from コンビニ人間
Why do they say スイカのタッチ instead of スイカでタッチして?
“これがいいと**思います**。” This is from a kaishi 1.5k anki card meaning. “I think this is good.”
I’m very new to Japanese and I tried to look elsewhere first but I’m quite confused as to why が makes any sense here. I thought が marked the subject meaning that the verb would be affecting it. In this instance, however, its not at all because then it would be saying “this thinks” Where exactly does the I come in this situation. Sorry if its an obvious answer.
Are there any good places to watch Japanese films with Japanese subtitles? I’ve tried Netflix but they don’t have much in interested in.
How do you accuse someone of being lazy in Japanese?
I’m trying to translate this conversation in my head:
“It’s not even that hot outside, you’re just being lazy”
(Context: a guy says its too hot outside and wants to cancel plans)
But then I realized that there isn’t a really good way to call someone lazy like this in Japanese. Any help? Currently watching a video on why 怠け者 isn’t a good option…they suggested だらしい but I’m trying to imagine if calling someone だらしいだね、君 sounds good… it doesn’t really.
Is there any app or website where I can find a words antonym.i found one for synonym but it does not provide antonym.
Is there Japanese version of [this article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing)? If not then I would like to know what are heuristics for detecting AI-generated Japanese writing.
I found this phrase from One Piece:
“あのマークは４つの海とグランドラインにある百七十か国以上の加盟国の結束を示すもの”
How do you say this in real life? It seems like too long of a sentence.
Can 延長 be used for physically making something longer, e.g. a railroad or Pinocchio’s nose? Or only for abstract concepts like a deadline or a hotel stay
How many words can realistically be learned in a day? I don’t mean memorized, just studied and familiarized so that when they come up in flashcards later they’re easier to recognize. And what would be a good way to reach that number of words studied in a day?
Every time I try to find an answer online it’s just a recommended daily study goal, not how many can be studied in a single day. If that makes sense?
Why i ask is cus the way i study words currently is to do a bunch in one day, then review them on spaced repetition software till I’m making very few mistakes. But if I just start with spaced repetition software I can only do 20 words a day without forgetting them all by the next day. But I found if I study them a bit first, I make much less mistakes and can learn much more.
Just wondering if there’s a specific way to do that that prioritizes the number of words learnt fast. And if so, about how many words can be learnt in a day? I know it depends on how many hours there are to study in a day, and I can’t give an exact number.. but I could probably study about 10 or more hours in one day if I really set my mind to it. So,
My current study method is to write out each word with its Kanji, then the reading in hiragana(or just hiragana if no kanji, or katakana if it’s a katakana word) then I write at least one, sometimes 2 or 3, sentemces with the word in it. Then I move on to the next word. Then I do a quiz on renshuu with those words and take note of which I get wrong to study more later. Either by writing them down a bunch or by writing more sentences with them.
I’ve been told thats a good way to study words, just wondering if there’s anything else I could try that might be faster. Or if anyone knows how many words can be realistically studied in a day so I can set realistic goals alongside my more ambitious, “just for fun” goals. I wanna learn 3K or more words in a week or two but I don’t think that’s possible- lol. But it’s fun to try knowing I won’t make it. That’s what I mean by just for fun goals.
(For context I’m at just over 800 words according to renshuu but i know a few that haven’t shown up there yet so there may be a bit more than that. And the most I’ve done in two days was 300-400 I believe. But that was over two days. But it wasn’t constant study on both days, only really the afternoons I think. But I might be remembering wrong. But after those two days I had about an 85% success rate on the reviews of the words. It’s now around 98% so I wanna add new words to study.)