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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (September 08, 2025)

  • September 8, 2025

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  3. I finished learning my kana and am struggling heavy with where to go next. Every study material I open has questions/answers in Japanese, and while I can sometimes sound out the answers, I can’t translate them. Where would you start if you had the Kana to an apprentice-level understanding and wanted to work toward understanding more?

  4. I’m grateful that the media I like has never been translated, because that made me get better at Japanese, but at the same time, I wish someone would.

    I really like Japanese musicals. And Korean musicals (to the point where I’m learning Korean. Actually, most of the people I follow online are fans of these Japanese actors who are in a lot of Korean musicals (in Japanese), and the actors have been studying Korean, and a lot of the fans have been, too, so, that’s fun. I’m reading some books about learning Korean, in Japanese.)

    So yeah, if you want to try listening to Japanese musicals, please do. There are a ton of proshots (video recordings, DVDs and such). Also, recordings of musicals that are also in English.

    If you like Disney, Gekidan Shiki’s cast recordings are on most streaming services internationally, I think. They also translated Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia, and more. And they have original shows like The Ghost and the Lady, which is really popular.

  8. So I’m still very much on my learning journey and I use translators occasionally (yes I know it’s bad, no need to scold me) but I does anyone have suggestions for non-ai powered translators?

  10. Is there a case where 家族 is used to mean “family member”? I saw the following text.

    私が住んでいる所には「パロ」というちょっと面白い家族がいます.

    (パロ here is referring to a robot)

    Jisho only listed it as “family” but I can only makes sense the text with “family member” instead of “family”

  11. When sentance mining, are you intended to immediately add the sentances to your daily rotation? I’ve been adding mined sentances to my main deck, but realized they’ve only been slowly dripped in since they start marked as “new” cards, and often take some time appearing due to my settings.

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