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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (December 05, 2025)

  • December 5, 2025

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  2. 山の向こう means on (from) the other side of the mountains. A bit more precise.

    山の方 means in/from the direction of the mountains. A bit broader meaning.

  3. Is raw listening worth it if I don’t have a lot of vocabulary yet? Just as kind of a background noise type of thing. Also, I do have a lot of free time, but studying for more than 3 hours kind of makes my head feel “full” and I have a whole other course I’m working on at the same time too(backend web development).

    Right now I’m doing wanikani as much as possible, I’ve got anki set to 5/50 just as a baseline but I tend to do extra review every day, and I just started bunpro for grammar points. I have genki 1 coming in the mail soon too. I enjoy renshuu but it moves kind of fast for me.

    I know this is going to take a long time, but I’d like to get to graded reading in about 6 to 8 months if possible. I don’t work at the moment, so lots of free time.

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