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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (October 21, 2025)

  • October 21, 2025

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  1. Hey everyone, I have been mostly focused on input through immersion and have not spoken Japanese much since I last took classes many years ago. Managed to achieve N2 some time ago but failed the recent N1 by about 30 points.

    Anyone here who restarted speaking after a long break or started speaking after a long time with an input-only learning approach is willing to share tips and experiences? Have been thinking about how to initiate the process but never got the right opportunity to do so.

    I’ve been thinking about enrolling myself in classes that specialise or focus towards speaking or simply take 1-1 online classes via Italki or Preply. I remembered trying HelloTalk once last time and being able to speak to some Japanese natives awkwardly, not sure if I should give it a try now since I can use it as an opportunity to ease myself into speaking and it’s free.

  2. 〇 きれいな景色と彼女の笑顔があいまって最高の写真を撮ることができた。

    ？ 彼女の笑顔がきれいな景色とあいまって最高の写真を撮ることができた。

    Is the second one grammatically incorrect, or simply not as natural as the first? Is it due to something like the following?

    〇 〜と〜があいまって

    〇 〜は〜とあいまって

    ✕ 〜が〜とあいまって

    Or is there something else I’m missing?

  3. Might be silly question but when typing, is there a rule about when is good to convert hiragana to kanji? Usually, I convert it after one or a few words, but I feels like waiting for longer or at the end of the sentence then convert it might be more efficient?

  4. Is there a more polite way to refer to older people than 老人? Would 年上の人 be too literal a translation and sound like I’m only talking about the group of people older than me personally?

  6. What methods do you think are the best for learning 20 vocab words and 5 kanji and day? Just writing it down?

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