Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (February 06, 2024)

11 comments

1. from an anime:

   そう。 もうすぐ始まる野外演習で➡ 君には運営側に回ってほしい。

   he’s asking the mc to join the “management side” ( cause she’s really strong ) , but why is he using the verb 回って ? is it like “to turn” as in to switch side? the MC is a student in the academy.

2. I don’t understand why the causative is used in this sentence.

   Context: someone is casting magic on him, which is causing the 煙.

   　魔法を受けたデュラハンは、光を浴びた部分から、黒い煙を吹き上げ**させて**いる。

   I tried thinking of it this way: The subject should be デュラハンは, even though he’s receiving the magic I don’t see any other possible targets.

   Then if he’s the subject he’s also the one causing the 吹き上げさせて… So either let/make.

   I still can’t see it very well even with that.

   Is there any chance the subject is the person using magic on him instead, and not the は particle?

3. 1だそうです,
   2と言っていました
   3 言いました

   my homework was multiple choice to fill in the blank. apparently there were two right answers, one wrong answer. i cannot find out why

   the homework went something like this.

   あの場所は居酒屋ある＿＿＿＿＿＿。

   the answer should be 1 and 2. not 3. i chose 3 (適当に）

   any opinion on what the correct answer is and why? my conversation skills have glitched because of this question. i dont know what the rules are, and i dont know how to apply them.

4. Why is it がくせい but written as gakusee? From Genki I
   https://imgur.com/ZN3Xfmr

   Is there a list somewhere of all the cases of the kanas being used for something other than their sound? like つ

5. I was reading a level 1 book on たどく and the following sentence came up: https://imgur.com/FrNNARy

   My translation would be something like: “What kind of person does happiness come to?”. The part that I don’t understand is why is the last part written as 来るのでしょうか instead of straight up 来る? or something similar. Not sure what でしょうか adds here. I am still going over essential grammar and only know about 300 vocab. Thanks in advance

   edit: This is the book in question https://tadoku.org/japanese/book/41614/

6. Any good tutorial videos/picture walk through on how to use anki decks? (I am a very visual learning, just a text walk through will most likely not work)

   I downloaded anki on my phone a few weeks ago, but I am still confused on how it works. I have figured out how to make decks and download already made decks, but when it comes for actually using them I am a bit confused. If someone can describe like step by step, that would be really helpful. (I mean like every step, like “to unlock a door you need to grap the keys out of your pocket, find the correct key for the door, put it into the correct key hole, turn in a clockwise motion until it clicks. Etc” like that kind of interkit step by step)

   Also, I know I’ve been asking a lot of somewhat seemingly simple questions and still not understanding them. I’m sorry if it’s getting annoying, but I have no body stable to help outside of this reddit and no prior expiriance with learning a language, or learning in general (I have only been in a school setting for about three years, I was “homeschool” and had zero proper study expiriance, there for all of the “just use thuis website that everyone knows about” or “this learning tequniqu that everyone knows from second grade works great” etc. means nothing to me) I need like seriouse baby steps, like how do I’ve my toes and bend my leg when I try to walk baby steps. Also, if I ever sohnd rude I’m not trying to be by any means, I am apparently a terrible rexter according to my siblings and often sound blunt and short with people even though I’m not trying to 😅

7. I’m starting to learn about transitivity pairs in class, but I’m a bit confused about something. Take the pair 開ける and 開く. One video lesson showed the transitive verb with が as a way to illustrate the idea, but does that mean that it is grammatically incorrect?

   Take the following sentences below about the door. Are they correct in grammar? Can you use the transitive verb in the second sentence at times? If so, what does it imply? It feels that you are locked into using the intransitive verb in the third sentence rather than in the second sentence: 

   ドアを開ける. (I open the door.)

   ドアが開ける. (The door is open [implied that someone opened the door, like in some mystery game])

   ドアが開く. (The door opens [no human involved, automatic door sensor])

8. Has anyone does Pimsleur ? (Not the old version with only 30 lessons – I’m talking about the newer version with 5 levels and a billion dang lessons/ 5 months worth ) haha . Has it helped anyone speak more reflexively (not having to think while speaking ) or helped them in speaking ability in general?

   I found old posts on here about it but it seemed like most commenters only went through maybe the first 30 days (level one) or used the old cds prior to 2020 vs the app and all that.

9. So I may not them down, what if any are the differences between 起きる and 起こす

10. How would I write my dogs name if it is a non-proper noun? His name is えくぼ, named after an anime character, and on the wiki they use エクボ. Do you use katakana for signifying a noun into a proper noun?

11. From red to green kanji in kanji study app from luli languages?

    Hi,

    Does someone know how many repeats do you need to custom review a kanji for it to goes to green on Kanji study app?

    I managed to make a orange one goes to green. But the red ones seems to take a longer time.