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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (August 21, 2025)

  • August 21, 2025

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  1. I’ve just finished Kaishi 1.5k and Cure Dolly and started mining (from just Clannad to begin with). For grammar I liked [Morg’s idea](https://morg.systems/0c786881) of “mining” it by adding a grammar point to my reviews if I encountered a sentence and grammar was what hindered my understanding. However, I’ve added around 30 from the last two episodes and Bunpro seems to want me to review every grammar point every day if I look at the schedule ahead. Is there a better way for me to be doing this? It’s manageable right now but I anticipate with my watching 2 hrs a day this will quickly add up. Curious if anybody else used Bunpro like this early on when mining

  2. What’s the best word for “to learn” if I want to say the phrase “I learned [insert word] today”? 学ぶ?

  3. Does anyone have recommendations for business level Japanese resources? I’m N1 level, so I don’t mind if it’s stuff meant for Japanese people, if it’s stuff for the Business Japanese test, or something for the 秘書検定, or just YouTube etc.

    Any recs are appreciated!

  5. I just want to state this goal because that’s the first step to anything. Not for any serious reason, literally just for myself, I want to someday pass the JLPT N5. I want to make this into one of those “SMART” goals, but I’m not sure what kind of timeline would be appropriate, so for now that’s a ”non SMART“ goal hahaha

  6. Hi! Do you guys have any resources or advice on how to practice my sentence writing? I mean, I’m using Genki and Tae Kim’s grammar guide for learning grammar and WaniKani for Kanji and Vocab, still I can’t seem to get better at writing sentences or understanding how to make them, I feel that I need more practice (and no HelloTalk didn’t worked for me thanks) any advice? 🙁

  7. https://imgur.com/a/cU1GJFy

    As context, the protagonist was puzzled by the last minute kiss by 千鶴. I am not sure what she meant by どっちもある種千鶴さんらしいス. What did she refer to by どっちも? Does ある種 mean ある意味?

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