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1. >沙都子を救うにはどうすればいいのかという最初の話に戻ろう。現状はこうだ。沙都子がいる。叔父がそれを監禁している。

   I’m lost about the use of それ here. Why would you refer to a person as それ? Also the speaker is 沙都子’s friend so he wouldn’t be doing it in a derogitory way

2. How does one actually learn words and vocab?

   I’ve consistently tried to learn Japanese off and on for over a decade now. I consistently can recognize most Kana every time I come back from a break, I have been able to figure out the grammer stuff fairly easy from online courses and books.

   But every time it comes to learning actual words, its like I hit a mental wall.

   I’ve looked up basic phrases like good morning, yes, no, etc. And try to use it randomly with friends. But anything more than that gets dicey.

   Spending time with native Japanese media and looking up words every sentence is extremely tedious and boring for me. Proper text book work like Genki has been just, way too formal for my head with how practically everything is written in Japanese and treats it like you should just be reading it from day 1. Doesn’t help me just makes me angry.

   And using tools like Anki or searching the dictionary daily is again just, boring.

   I end up cracking within a week whenever I hit this point, get bored and dip for like 6 months to a year, come back again, cycle repeats.

   I want to get over this hump, but I don’t really know how. Besides just powering through the tedium until its memorized. Is there any other option I’m not considering?

   Podcasts and news segments I’ve tried for learning stuff has consistently gone too fast for me to keep up, even on rewinds so I end up getting frustrated and stopping because I’m not learning just getting angry.

3. Hello everyone,

   I apologize now if this should be asked on another sub-reddit. I had an idea recently where I thought it would be cool if you could study an anki deck that has you practice some challenging and common Japanese words that are in a specific episode of an anime or Japanese show and study them before watching the episode (challenging words = N3+ and common= N4+ vocab, but depends on the show ). Then others could study these decks before watching the episode to practice their listening skills (amongst other things like constructing sentences). I was curious if anyone knows if there are decks already out there like this and could point me in the direction of these or if this might be a project I should pursue in the future (honestly I hope someone else as already done this lol).

   Just for clarification, I am not suggesting this as a substitute to learning Japanese through textbooks or anything like that, but just as a fun immersion activity.

   Thanks!

4. 「幸村それもなにか間違ってるだろ。ていうかその似非かわいい子口調はやめなさい。調子が狂うから」

   「すみれちぇ。幸村くんの心は汚れてますね。恋する少女はみんな魔法を覚えるものなんですよ。それを似非だなんて」

   「幸村なにが恋する少女だ。そもそもおまえもともと魔法使いだろうが」

   I’m stuck on this 恋する少女はみんな魔法を覚えるものなんですよ. The best i can come up with is ” A girl in love is something everyone learns magic for” But this sounds weird to me and doesn’t make sense with what comes after.

5. I’m currently a student at a language school in Tokyo in N3 level. Being completely honest, I’m not a fan of Tokyo itself and feel kind of like I’m treated as a cash cow, invisible or an entertainment piece here. Being from a smaller, lesser-known country to Japanese, I feel kind of brushed off whenever I be myself and talk about my culture Kind of like there is a ranking of interesting nationalities where Korean and American sit at the top. I don’t drink alcohol and am more the fitness type over partying so that removes me from the most common way of making friends here too.

   However I have travelled while living here and I have found other cities much friendlier, especially in Shizuoka and Kyushu and Western Japan. And I have made lots of friends outside of Tokyo, which is hard to manage given it’s all long-distance friendships.

   So my current plan is to switch from my current school in Tokyo to one in a more regional area. However I have contacted my country’s embassy about this and they mentioned not knowing the process and redirected me to Japanese Immigration and I’m afraid to ask my language school in case they try to make things hard for me, I’ve heard horror stories from people.

   My question is, has anyone else been through the process of changing schools and also felt in a similar position while living here. What exactly should I do?

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