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Does anyone have a link to the APK of kanji tree pro? I bought it ages ago but they took it off the app store after the creator killed two people.
It was really useful for writing practice and you needed the pro version to create custom study lists. If it’s lost to time what’s a decent app that lets you do writing practice?
Are there any baseball fans here? I’m at low N2 level and I’m looking for good native level resources (YouTube channels, magazines etc) to try and get my study back on. Thanks in advance!
Hello!
I’m on Genki 2 Chapter 19 and I have two quick question about sentences I saw in this chapter.
1. 何もありませんが。どうぞお召し上がりください。In this sentence, my assumption is the 何もありませんが is implying the “food is nothing special” or being humble and downplaying the food rather than there is literally nothing there? Is that correct?
2. 桜の花がきれいな季節になりました。I am having trouble understanding this sentence. It translate to “It has become the season when cherry blossom are beautiful”, but I’m confused because isn’t きれいな modifying 季節? So how does it become beautiful cherry blossom? Isn’t it beautiful season?
Thank you so much in advance! 😀
I need to leave Duolingo but need something with a streak counter to stay consistent. Helpp
I crew on a sail boat in Japan. It’s an all Japanese crew and all conversations are in Japanese.
The diesel was leaking and we got a new pump installed. While inspecting it, they were using a word for diesel that I hadn’t heard before. It was not ディーゼル. Later I tried to recall the word but I can’t. Does anyone know?
Can anyone explain this “かのかどうか”?
https://preview.redd.it/gq1ikvsd148g1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=9f77cddf9d82af60b8a09f46cdd92b23d3e11fbe
At first I thought it was a typo, but searches for the exact phrase do return some native Japanese results using the expression, but grammar resources only explain it as far as “か’, “の”, and “（か）どうか” separately without addressing both か and の before かどうか . The closest resource to explaining it as one full unit is AI.
ChatGPT says
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The **の** adds:
>a sense of **“the issue/question of whether…”**
>mild **emphasis on uncertainty or doubt**
>a slightly **softer, internal-monologue tone** (very common in VNs)
What does the announcer say in this video? [https://youtu.be/DrzOybAbYRg?t=399](https://youtu.be/DrzOybAbYRg?t=399) I hear 「ブウヒンの言葉」
Given the context it makes sense that he’s saying 「下品の言葉」, but I’m certain I hear an “uu” sound in that first mora
Is there a difference in meaning between 今夜は**大い**に語りましょう and 今夜は**多い**に語りましょう or is it more a spelling issue? Currently doing the Kanken writing deck and mistook 大**い** with 多**い**.
Kanzen Master N2 listening, exercise 1-3:
“さあ、やんなくっちゃ”
“うん、やろう”
What is やんなくっちゃ? From context I am guessing やらなければならない but what is this verb conjugation called?
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