Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (May 25, 2024)

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1. Full tweet:

   本日、 UUUM株式会社、 ANYCOLOR 株式会 社、当社の3社で構成される誹謗中傷対策検 討分科会を設置したことをお知らせいたします。

   分科会の設置に当たっては、クリエイターを抱える企業をはじめとする12社にご賛同いただき、総務省、警視庁刑事部をはじめ、 各業界団体等の後援を受け、 具体的な誹謗中傷への取り組みについて発表いたしました。

   詳細は以下をご確認ください。

   What im struggling with is the second paragraph. I understand the nouns in the sentence, I just have a hard time understanding the verbs and overall structure. Can anyone break it down for me?

2. Re: Satori Reader- Does anyone know if there’s a way to play a series continuously like an audiobook? I only found that you can play a chapter at a time.

   I’m interested in listening through stories that I’ve already read to see how much I understand.

3. What does そつなく mean in this sentence?

   仕事はまじめでそつなくこなすが今ひとつ情熱のない女

4. I’m having trouble with this sentence:

   「デート行こうぜ」って誘っても楽しいんだか楽しくないんだか

   Particularly the んだか ending.

   Is the meaning something to the effect of “Even if she says ‘let’s go on a date,’ and you think it’s going to be fun, it actually isn’t fun?”

5. At what point in your journey did you guys feel like you really started getting a grip on the language? Even just comprehension of it?

   I’m around an N2-1 level, have read 15 books, probably around 7k-8k known words, and engage in the language on a daily basis. This is such a mountain of a language, still don’t feel like I’m anywhere near being advanced. I do love it tho so not too many complaints.

6. Does “〜でいたい” by necessity refer to maintaining a state the subject already is in? Like for example “元気でいたい”, can that be used when one not already be healthy, such as in say “今は元気じゃないけど、元気でいたい。” or does it by necessity imply one is already healthy?

7. is learning the kanji character and it’s meaning first then the on/kun-yomi later on advisable?

8. When I, as a customer, am talking to someone older than me, do I use the polite form or the casual form?
   For example, I am a student, and I am talking to a flight attendant.

9. Hello everyone,

   I’m looking for some advice and suggestions to improve my Japanese study routine. Here’s what my typical day looks like:

   1. Genki-related material: I study with the Genki textbook, TokiAndy videos, Game Genko videos, or Seth Clidesdale exercises for about an hour.
   I’m almost done with the Genki 1 book.
   2. Anki Decks: I work on Genki-related Anki decks and the 2k core deck for 30-45 minutes.
   3. Comprehensible Input: I try to watch an hour of comprehensible input videos on YouTube daily.
   4. Bunpro: I spend 30 minutes practicing grammar on Bunpro.
   5. Wanikani: I dedicate 30-45 minutes to Wanikani for kanji study.
   I’d love to hear any tips or suggestions you might have to make my study sessions more effective or efficient. What has worked well for you in your Japanese learning journey? Any resources or methods I should consider adding or changing?
   Thanks in advance for your help!

10. I’m reading the lyrics of this song called **マトリョシカ** 

    At one point it says: ああ、割れそうだ it repeats this type of sentence structure further into the song as a repetition with: ああ、吐きそうだ

    I think there’s a few things I’m not catching. For example, for me the first one reads as “It looks like it’s broken”, but translation reads it as “it looks like I’m about to break (crack and brust)”. Where does the “I’m about to” come? I guess it’s possible, but am I supposed to infer it?

    Same things goes with the “I”, how am I supposed to know when that is referring to [object/subject] they can see and when to themselves?

11. Is the かと思えば used below the same meaning as these

    1. ～すると、すぐに別の何かが起こる
    2. ～と思ったが、実際は違う

    M-1に挑戦したかと思えば、自身の髪で長期実験に取り組み、市民憲章は暗記して全うする。

    Which one is it?

12. What’s the ぞ part mean in よくぞ来た? I’ve never heard it before, is it something used mostly in anime?

13. **tl;dr: Looking for an Anki deck with kanji readings/vocab roughly in order of usage/commonality.**

    Moving to Tokyo in 6 months, want to get my Kanji knowledge to a reasonable level. To me, knowing Kanji isolated is useless and I’d rather learn the reading of it in common compounds.

    RTK requires that I overwrite existing kanji knowledge and it will also clash with my Japanese classes at university that teach more traditionally.

    WaniKani feels incredibly slow for someone who already knows hundreds of kanji. I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong but it only lets me review kanji most days, only adds new ones once a week. Is there a way to tell it where I’m up to like duolingo’s skip ahead feature?

14. Has anyone used the spanish version of remembering the kanji? Is it as good as the english version?

15. I was doing a writing exercise on Busuu and wanted to express “I’m not particularly interested in celebrities.” I wrote 「私は有名人に別に気になりません」A native speaker corrected it to  「私は有名人**は**別に気になりません」

    I was confused about having は twice in the sentence, and he said that they are two different usages (and that the second は can be replaced with が).

    I’m still not too sure about what those usages are, though. Is the first は contrastive?