Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (April 26, 2024)

9 comments

1. Would の be used in college student だいがくせい ?
   When do we put い at the end of colours, such as 黒 ?

   And finally, when is 母　はは vs. かあ?

   Thanks!

2. Does anyone know where all the long novels are? I have been reading from books for reading practice/mining, but am looking for fantasy/sci-fi books that are not aimed at children. Why are they all so short? It is so difficult to find a book with over 500 pages.

3. Why does the romanization of Sandwich include a “T”?

   サンドイッチ
   Sandoitchi

   Shouldn’t it be “Sandoicchi”

   Doesn’t a small “ッ” mean the next character will have the first letter doubled?

   If its before “チ” does this rule change?

4. So I was reading a news article about [a karateka who kicked a wild bear in the face](https://mainichi.jp/articles/20240425/k00/00m/040/135000c), and I’m a little shaky on the use of といい. E.g.:

   >1頭の顔を蹴ると、2頭は逃げていった*といい*、福田さんはその後に自力で下山した。

   and

   >道警によると、福田さんは比翼の滝を見るために1人で訪れていた*といい*、林道に車を止めて下車すると、茂みから顔を出す体長約1・5メートルと約1・3メートルのヒグマと遭遇。

   I’ve only been taught it so far as “I hope” or “it would be good”, but that nuance doesn’t show up in deepl/google translations. Is this a different grammar point, or is this the same one, like, “hoping that they would run away” and “hoping to visit Hiyokuno Falls”?

5. I’m only 10 days in trying to learn hiragana and katakana via Anki and duolingo but it feels like I’ll be stuck here forever and lose motivation before it feels like any sort of progress. 😭

6. Does anyone know if DeepL has options to show furigana or romaji? It’ll give me sentences with kanji, but I don’t know how to read them unless I press the “audio” button.

7. Im having trouble with a renshuu grammar sentence…
   文句言わないで、散歩(something)しなさい！
   Meaning “Dont complain, go on a walk or something!”
   My problem is I keep getting など (can mean “things like A; for example A) instead of the correct answer, でも (which is “A or something).

   Is there a reason why など cant be used here? Is there some overlap or a grammar rule here that i dont know? Help 😅

8. Just wanted to show my appreciation for the native speakers and high level learners who still frequent the daily threads. The comments on non-daily thread posts seem to have a much wider variety of people offering advice, and it seems to get policed/monitored much less in terms of people offering correct advice. I understand it’s a language *learning* subreddit, and I understand that with a complex language like Japanese, beginners get excited at anything they can understand and answer.

   A lot of times innocent advice can end up doing more harm than good even if the commenter had good intentions. I understand what a bottomless ocean Japanese can feel like, and I know all too well the feeling of “Ooh I can answer that question and help out another learner who is stuck on the same problem I once was!” But really, due to the nature of the reddit itself and especially a language learning community, sometimes the pure amount of misinformation that gets spread can be a tad bit frustrating. I think the most common example would be something like: “pre-n5 here, been working on hiragana on duolingo for a few months now but I think 何々 means blablabla.” Even if they end up being right to some degree, the lack of cultural context and awareness of nuance leads to a LOT of at least partially wrong advice being given out super regularly. Of course this is isn’t really something that can be controlled and is only natural, but really, without the all the native speakers/advanced language learners especially in the daily thread, this subreddit would really stink. You guys make it work <3

   /rant over

9. 傘下 comes from the English phrase right?