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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (October 18, 2025)

  • October 18, 2025

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5 comments

  1. First time in a year completing my daily SRS cards. 100 cards plus 10 new. Totally didn’t know most of them or understand. I don’t know if it’s because I added all these weird sentences that you wouldn’t use or say or I just don’t understand the words. With 44,000 sentences and going back as far as 2013 there is bound to be a lot of pointless stuff in here. I was thinking of pruning, but I resist. In any case, this is going to be a long road to N1.

  2. 自分で家事をやってみてはじめて、母の気持ちがわかった。

    自分で家事をやってみて以来、母の気持ちがわかった。

    Is the second one ungrammatical, or just simply not as natural as the first? If the second is ungrammatical, why? I don’t see how it’s functionally different from example sentences I can find online like その子は、両親が事故で亡くなって以来、笑わなくなってしまった。

  3. Got a question about this genshin sentence

    B: もちろん、ご自身のやり方で「テツクジラ大将」に挑戦してもらって大丈夫ですよ。どちらが先に宝物を見つけられるか勝負するのもいいですね。

    Context. B told A that they could work together to search for the treasure, but A declined.

    1. What does this てもらって大丈夫 in 1st sentence mean? never seen that before. Is this something like a more politeてもいい, like “you can/may challenge テツクジラ大将”?

    2. In 2nd sentence is どちら being used to mean both of them(A & B)? Like: Having a match (to see) which of the two of us（どちら？） can find the treasure first is okay too?

  5. Hello, looking for recommendation for good apps for learners who don’t have a lot of time, preferably with grammar, kanji and vocab. Paid apps are ok with me. I’ve heard wanikani is good but I’m not sure if it has grammar.

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