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1. got questions about this quartet dialogue

   「だし」とは？

   かつお節やこんぶなどを煮出した汁を「だし（出汁）」と呼びます。出汁は、色々な和食に使われている重要な「うまみ」です。お湯に溶かすだけの便利な粉末タイプも人気があります。

   1. first time seeing うまみ. Does it mean something like “tastiness”? like: Dashi is an important tastiness・good flavor（うまみ?）

   2. First time seeing 溶かす and a little confused with 粉末タイプも人気があります in last sentence. is this saying: Its(dashi) also a popular powder type that dissolves（溶かす） in just hot water?

2. Hello, I recently had the opportunity to witness what L2 English communication looks like, and realized that in many cases: Even if a sentence/paragraph is completely cogent on a grammatical level: It might still come across as stiff or unnatural.

   Sometimes I try to ask for corrections for my terribly composed Japanese Posts, but in light of what I have learned, I fear that I may simply be “plugging the holes” to a fundamentally compromised vessel.

   Is there any way to identify and eliminate “unnatural” Japanese? I usually try to cross reference anything I say against the Internet before typing, however sometimes the Topic may shift to things that there are no examples for, and I fear that even if I managed to produce something that wouldn’t be marked down on a Test, that it will still be unsightly for a Native to look at.

   どうすればいい？

3. I’ve been taking my listening immersion more seriously the past few months and it feels like I’m not actually acquiring any/thing. I’ve got about 100 hours based on my podcast app (40 of it being from Nihongo Con Teppei) is this normal?

4. i’m looking for a movie that is basically the live action version of Bunny Drop (kids parents die, no relatives really want to take the kid, someone steps up and does it) EXCEPT in this movie i’m thinking of, the girl if older (middle-highschooler) and is taken in by a female relative (maybe aunt). started watching this before and want to return to it, but forgot the title

5. I saw this sentence while studying: 「鶏肉は食べません。」 Why is this using は instead of を? Thank you!

6. そのふくらみに朝日が反射し、白い肌が滑らかに光っている。ふたつの胸の間には、青く深い影が湖のようにたまっている。もんでおくか。俺はすとんとそう思う。**りんごが地上に落ちるみたいにほとんど普遍的に**自動的に、そう思う。

   I am not sure how the bold part is understood. “universally like how apple falls on Earth”?

7. https://preview.redd.it/j1fsnhn5ppmf1.jpeg?width=590&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e49a725734808e848864f3ef2762193f66806f3

   hi, i am stuck on the specific context of a reply i got from a friend.

   Context: i own a cat myself called Minu (ミヌ) and i sometimes post about her on my insta story. I sent them a cat reel which had the cat standing on the keyboard with つ being repeated on the screen from it.

   Were they asking ‘does your cat do that too?’

   わかんない。🥲✌🏻

8. nothing in particular except I want to give a big thank you to everyone who contributed replies answers perspectives and sharp observations

   you’re like the gentle stage whisper conversations I could have instead of publicly embarrassing myself

   the preparation I can have so that my Japanese conversations have meaning (有意義)

   the refute that shakes out any brain fog I have. Because sometimes embarrassing and meaningless things come out anyway

   thank you

9. Im learning Japanese for almost a year now. Mostly it’s wanikani(lvl14) and grammar lessons online from Minna no nihongo (on lesson 13 now).
   But I really don’t feel much progress in terms of understanding. I tried sample test on the official website for N4, but barely understood questions. Also when listening for nihongo kon teppei I understand like 50%.
   I feel maybe I’m doing something wrong? How to speed up process? What I should be doing at this stage of learning?

10. Why is 上がり used to mean to “close” in the sentence
    今日はお 客さ ん も少ないし、 早上がりでいいよ.
    Which according to renshuu means:
    “There aren’t many customers today (among other things), so it’s ok if we close up shop early. “
    Or is it just one of the many meanings 上がりcan mean?

11. 9th week in

    My main goal is being able to read and I”m at the point where I’m actually more narrowing it down to that. I started a bookcalled “What happens if you saved a high school girl from jumping off a building?”, or well the webnovel version with an extension called ‘Yomitan’, pretty much a dictionary

    I’m only a bit afraid I’m just looking up words and not learning anything. I heard something like ‘accept when you cant understand something’ too. So what I’m doing is looking at words and if they have recognizable symbols first think if I recognize them, then I try to think if I can remember it. Also sometimes I’ll stop and try to figure out the meaning of the sentence. So not always, cuz I think when ppl say don’t want to understand everything is don’t try to scramble the meaning of what every word does in the sentence

    I read ‘What happens if you save a high school girl from jumping off a building’, something like that. I feel like the langauge isn’t insanely hard. Well I cant read it without looking up but, I just get the idea

    I also kinda regret not taking a recommended vocabulary deck. I took basically a frequency list. And although it has its’ advantages in knowing a lot with for example the LN I’m reading now, it doesn’t give context. What I decided to do now is to sometimes if I have a verb with multiple meanings add a noun e.g.

    使う

    the most common use is… use

    But it can also mean wear for things around your head so I added

    眼鏡を使う=to wear glasses

    Oh and while reading / watching I noticed a lot of different verb forms and I just google them. But should I just keep doing that until I remember? e g. I kept seeing ている and I know know it means… I believe continuous? Like -ing. But like you can see I know a little, but not that sure about them I dont remember them like words, should I?

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