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1. >師匠：・・・あなたにその名を譲ったことが、私の生涯でただ一度の後悔です。 その過ちを、今、自らの手で修正しましょう！

   弟子：・・・そりゃあ違うぜ、お師匠。私のただ一度の過ちは、 この程度の力を学ぶのに、あんたに弟子入りしちまったことだぜ？

   弟子：何が魔法だ。 何が無限の魔女だ。 ・・・こんなの、気付くだけの力じゃねぇえかよォ。

   弟子：それをもったいぶって偉そうによう。 お前の出番はとっくに終わってんだよ、お師匠様よ！

   This conversation is between two witches who had a falling out.

   Does 気付くだけの力じゃねぇえかよ mean “it’s just a power for noticing (that’s all it is)”, or “it’s not a power worthy of even being noticed” ? Is reading this correctly purely a matter of what makes sense in context, or can I always understand だけの this way?

   My issue is that reading “気付くだけの力” as “just a power of noticing” doesn’t really make sense (or at least nothing in the context of the story mentions the witch’s powers as being related to “noticing” at all)… but if I read it as “a power worthy of being noticed” then “じゃねぇえか” doesn’t make sense, because I am reading じゃねぇえか as a rhetorical affirmation (this IS a power worthy of being noticed, isn’t it?), which doesn’t mesh with the pupil trying to insult the master.

2. 街までは歩いて１日ほどの距離らしいけど、私のステータスだと２～３日かかると言われた。狩りしながらだし、ステータスは赤ちゃんだもんね……。こまめに休憩してもらってます。

   * 狩りしながらだし, what grammar is used here? I don’t see how everything attaches.

   ジークが狩ったウサギが数匹。解体を手伝だったけど、やっぱり向いてないなぁと思う。慣れなのかな……。

   * 手伝だった, I learned 手伝う really early but can’t find this word.
   * 慣れなのかな, I know 慣れる so is this the noun form with なの and can なの attach to any word?

3. is there like a grammar nerd reason you don’t hear things like わかるね わかるよね わかるでしょう

4. I have recently been learning more about Japanese history and I have seen the お used in front of girl’s names in lieu of suffixes such ちゃん (chan, san, etc). Like a girl named Haru would be called Oharu, etc. My question is that all of the name examples I’ve seen when written in romanji start with a consonant. Would there be any spelling changes made to a name if it started with say, a vowel? Say a girl’s name is something like Ami, would it then be Oami?

   Sorry for the english spellings but I’m just trying to wrap my head around why I’d yet to see examples names that start with vowel sounds using this honorific. I wasn’t sure if there was a grammatical reason for this.

5. I’m preparing for the N3 in July and focusing heavily on vocabulary, which makes up around 33% of the exam. My study method is a personal variant of RTK.

   My question is: are there specific radicals that appear disproportionately often in N3 kanji and vocabulary? I’m making my own study cards (handmade physical cards xd) and I want to focus to cover most of the vocabulary.

   Any recommendations welcome. Thanks!

6. Under what situations and circumstances we use:

   じゃない、ない、がありません & じゃありません。

   Please give more emphasis on the がありません vs じゃありません

7. Hi all! I’m studying Japanese, using the Minna no Nihongo textbooks. I wanted something to log into and be able to immediately start studying vocab from each lesson.

   I was struggling with existing solutions so I just built my own: [https://lexacard.app](https://lexacard.app).

   It should work nicely on both mobile and desktop. Appreciate any feedback or comments you might have!

8. Hi all. I was make some exercises and got this 2 questions:

   1. To ask “do you know which floor is Sora’s room in the dormitory?” would it be like:

   寮でソラの部屋は何階にあるが知っていますか？

   2. To say that walking with getas is uncomfortable, can I use **で** like:

   下駄で歩いにくいです

9. Anyone have any resources for conducting eye exams in Japanese? I just did an exam and realized my knowledge (N5ish or worse lol) was limited to 見えますか and どっちがいい. I think the big thing I couldn’t come up with was how to ask “better or worse”

10. So I am only four days into this journey but I have a question and a minor concern

    So to learn this language I have been basically following TheMoeWay guides, I read through the entire Japanese guide, and I am following the 30 day guide so I can gain my bearings, and alongside those I have been trying to bombard myself with as much of this language as possible, and I am still looking for more things I can do and enjoy as even more active/passive immersion.

    Before wanting to learn this language it was just music, games, and mods for games, and I gained motivation due to how much of this language I was interacting with, but it was mostly the music, and now I am trying to watch more anime (I normally watch very little, also I am watching “raw”), find some japanese youtube channels that I would like (I dont watch vtubers normally but I have been looking there as well, and I am willing to try that out), and I plan on reading the One Punch Man manga since I loved the show, until s3, and I also changed the language of everything I use to Japanese (I get this does almost nothing, but its still something)

    And my “study time” is basically Anki every day since day one, and whatever the 30 day guide says for the day.

    And so now this leads me to my question and concern:

    My “study time” has been lasting around 5 hours every day so far, and the biggest time sink so far has been Anki, like yesterday (day 3) it took 130 mins, and I studied 560 cards, and I wanted to ask if this is normal for 20 new words a day (I set it to 15 instead now), because when I was almost done I felt very tapped out in the mental department, since learning that many different cards at this speed makes it VERY DIFFICULT to memorize, but I did eventually memorize them enough to finish, so while I do think its working, I dont know if its working very well, so I just wanted to know if this and forgetting the word/pronunciation within a minute multiple times is normal, since I am kinda worried I am doing something wrong when I forget the kana for “where/that/there/that over there” for the 20th time

    Also side note, the R sound has been an immense struggle, I think I kinda have it, but I swear I have never used my mouth like that to make a sound before in my entire life, I have seen several things talking about that sound and how to make it, but it hasnt really fully clicked yet, so longer cards in Anki that use that sound have been a little hard to memorize due to me struggling hard to correctly pronounce the word

11. I’m studying from Genki 1, I have the 2nd Edition. And if I am interested in getting Genki 2 later, can I buy the newest edition (version 3) or would I have to track down a 2nd edition copy of Genki 2?

12. I’ve just started studying hiragana and I’ve noticed that different people write them in different ways (for example, the い hiragana is sometimes written with a smooth curve, but some other times with a sharper one. It’s eve more noticeable with う, which sometimes has a U-curve, but some videos and images show with a sort of… smooth 7? Where the curve ends toward the bottom. Is this a calligraphy thing, a font thing or something else? And how much does it matter?

13. On wikipedia the Hiragana, Katakana, Dakuten, and Handakuten are all listed on the same page. For example ‘Ha (kana)’ has は, ハ, ば, バ, ぱ, and パ. I’m not sure how to word this but would all 6 be considered 1 group? Like in a native Japanese dictionary would all of these be next to each other, or would it be all Hiragana, then all Katakana, then all Dakuten, then all Handakuten? I’m building my anki notes and I’m debating if all of them should be on the same note, or if I should have a single note for both Hiragana and Katakana since they have the same mora, and then another note for the Dakuten and a 3rd for the Handakuten.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_(kana)

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