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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (August 26, 2025)

  • August 26, 2025

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7 comments

  1. Is the reading for 「無愛想」ぶあいそ or ぶあいそう？ ChatGPT is saying the former, but コトバンク is saying the latter.

  2. I’m a beginner and started learning vocabulary with the kaishi 1,5k anki deck recently, but I feel like I’m super lost remembering the words.

     Like if it’s written out in kana and I can read it I can make the connection and remember the translation and sound, but if there is only a random kanji there’s no way I remember the word, even if I did the card a few times already.

  4. Reading NHK Easy and there’s a headline about how Nissan is ending production (生産) of its GT-R sports car. The first line in the story is this:

    >日産自動車のスポーツカー「GTーR」の歴史が終わりました。

    I know it must be, but is this is a common use of 歴史? The “history” of Nissan’s GT-R has come to an end? It’s not like it doesn’t make sense or anything, but I just don’t think I’ve seen it used that way before.

  5. Does anyone know any good resources or threads discussing the theory behind immersion learning? I.e. like the neuroscience of what makes immersion learning effective. I’m a fan of Karl Friston’s [Free Energy principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle) and have from that developed my own hypotheses on how immersion learning works on a fundamental level, and why it potentially works better than conventional studying methods when done well but I want to see what other people have said about it first.

  6. ずに is taught as negation with the nuance of “without doing” but is that always so? While I don’t have an example at hand, I recall seeing phrases with both just ず or ずに used, but not really carrying that nuance. Can ず be used as simple negation then?

  7. Well damn. I feel like the last 4 years of studying Japanese… maybe not a waste, but it feels like a lie.

    The constant recommendations for things like Sou Matome or SKM? Turns out to be partially bullshit. More specifically: they’re books for PREPARING for the TEST… not actually truly learning Japanese. In other words, before you can prepare for the test, you gotta learn the material actually on it. And that… is not the main feature of the books, despite getting heavily recommended.

    Figures that using the apps I was using and actually making progress with, in addition to actual textbooks… well, I suppose that it doesn’t fully matter how you get to the level, so long as you get there. If a method works, stick with it.

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