I’ve been using this resource for Genki tasks [https://sethclydesdale.github.io/genki-study-resources/lessons-3rd/](https://sethclydesdale.github.io/genki-study-resources/lessons-3rd/) and it’s really amazing. One thing I’m struggling with though, is knowing when Genki wants extra context or not.
For example in this exercise number 5: [https://sethclydesdale.github.io/genki-study-resources/lessons-3rd/lesson-4/grammar-9/](https://sethclydesdale.github.io/genki-study-resources/lessons-3rd/lesson-4/grammar-9/)
I wrote: 友達のうちで食べました
\- In my head, this would translate to “I ate at my friends house”, which I assume would be a perfectly okay response to the question(?)
But the correct answer is: 友だちのうちで晩ご飯を食べました
These mistakes happen quite often, and sometimes I’m able to understand why leaving something out sounds weird, but most cases are like the one above. The thing at confuses me most is that sometimes I add the extra context to be sure, but then the answer doesn’t include it and my answer is wrong.
So I’m wondering if I’m missing something here? I have been dabbling with Japanese for a year but recently decided to revisit Genki to work on the fundamentals. From what I’ve heard, and from what I can understand from simple Japanese, superfluous context is most often left out if it is very obvious.
If I’m not misunderstanding anything should I just ignore these mistakes and rather focus on whether the answer has any grammatical flaws?
2 comments
In this particular case it seems obvious, because the English description says “Ate **dinner** at her friend’s house”. So that’s what you are supposed to put in Japanese, not just “Ate at a friend’s house”.
In general however I would not stress over getting everything 100% as in the solutions provided. As you progress, sentences will become more complex and it will become more and more ambiguous what the “correct” answer is. The goal of those grammar exercises is only to make sure you understand each grammar point. As long as that is the case just move on.
The main point is making sure you know the grammar point but yea as the user above said, they look for exact answers to the prompt not just contextual