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1. Any resource I could use to learn speaking only? Not planning to read and write, just maybe fluent in speaking and communicating

2. Think I’m experiencing my first burnout with Japanese. I’m roughly N5 level. Finished Genki 1 and working on Genki 2. I usually review Genki 1 Vocab, Kanji, Genki 2 Vocab and kanji daily then some sentence and grammar practice. I learn and practice new grammar in a class on Tuesdays.

   Feeling a bit down because I’m not very good with listening. Even simple things seem like they are hard for me to understand.

   Seems like I don’t have time for anything any more despite also feeling like I don’t study that much. So I’m considering a break but I’m worried of progress I’ll lose. Any advice from those who have been here before would be appreciated.

3. # I’m a bit confused when using “na”, “no” and “nano”

   I’m using Duolingo to learn Japanese basics before trying a more serious course and I’m actually doing good enough, but there is something that always catches me off balance. I just can’t understand when it is correct to use the particles “na”, “no” and “nano” for example I got the following exercise and I miss every attempt:

   Kono _____ nano o kudasai. A, zono _______ no mo kudasai.

   And my options are:

   “kuroi” and “kirei”

   I can still not figure out or understand the grammar/logic behind choosing the correct option for each blank space. I end up writing “Kono kuroinano o kudasai. A, zono kireino mo kudasai” while the correct answer is “Kono kireinano o kudasai. A, zono kuroino mo kudasai”. AFAIK, Duolingo doesn’t have a section where it explains grammar lessons in use cases, so I’m a bit lost here.

   Any help would be much appreciated.

4. # A sensational discovery regarding the origin of Kanji and ways to utilize it to learn Japanese very quickly!

   [https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-kanji-%E5%BE%A1](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-kanji-%E5%BE%A1)

   (Read the answer by K. Mahendra)

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   P.S.: You can and should ask anything which comes to your mind.

5. Anyone have tips to increase mature card retention?

   I’m currently studying the core 2k/6k deck on anki, at a pace which I feel comfortable with – sitting at a fair 80% retention rate for young cards. However my mature retention is 70% which is on the lower side but I have no idea what to do with it:(

   I have above 1000 mature cards already and it feels until I sift through all of them I have no chance to increase retention.

   Any advice would be appreciated 🙂

6. This might sound kind of strange but I follow a lot of accounts that post seals on twitter, there’s one seal who lives in Japan named Turbo and when people make posts talking from Turbo’s point of view, the sentences always end with “なのだ”. Like when Turbo introduces himself he says “ターボなのだ！よろしくなのだ!” or when he doesn’t want to play with his little brother he says “こっちにくるななのだ”.

   I thought it would be kind of like baby-talk because thats how a lot of posts from animals point of view are (and Turbo kind of has baby-talk, he talks in hiragana mostly and he sometimes calls himself タボ or たぼ instead of ターボ), but when I looked it up I couldn’t find anything like that, so I was wondering what なのだcould mean in this context. Any help is appreciated, thank you!