What good and useful resources do people use to learn idioms/proverbs in Japanese effectively?(like are there any websites or tools where you can practice idioms with quizzes or situational questions to check if you’re actually using them correctly?)
While learning Japanese (and sometimes Chinese), I realized that idioms or proverbs are often tricky. I can often “understand” idioms on the surface, but not really get them in context.
Some examples: 油を売る(to slack off), 海老で鯛を釣る(to use a small thing to gain something big), 棚に上げる(to ignore your own faults while pointing out others')
I can read the words and get the literal meaning, but I don’t always feel confident about when or how to actually use them. I think it’s because idioms and proverbs are so tied to cultural context that they carry background stories and subtle connotations that aren’t obvious if you didn’t grow up immersed in the language?
by Ok-Front-4501