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1. Hello, I used to have japanese classes during my first years of university. Sadly this didn’t go anywhere and I couldn’t even achieve a complete N5 level due to a lack of motivation (mostly using the Marugoto textbook).
   However I’ve rekindled my motivation and I’m planning to go to Japan in the near future. I’m even putting money on the side for this. Right now I’m planning to delve back into it and get a level of upper N3 in a year and a half with 2h of study per day and 5h per day during week-end (I heard some people going N1 in 2 years so I’m guessing this is doable)…
   I’ve looked at the ressources in the starter’s guide and around this subreddit. Using what I gathered I thought of using this as a routine :

   * Vocab : Wanikani
   * Kanji : Remembering the kanji (6th edition) & the “Learn Kanji!” app
   * Grammar : “An introduction to Japanese” by Michiel Kamermans at first for a foundation then use Bunpro.
   * Reading : “Natively” to find a book on my level, using jpdb as my dictionary.
   * Listening : Erin and Language reactor with japanese TV series (Terrace House at N3 seems good)

   Not much on the writing and speaking part for now.

   *Designed it this way since I hate using textbooks… Anki is also not my cup of tea…
   *For listening I also remember a website where you could learn using tidbits of TV shows and others… If anyone got the name please tell me.

   How can I make this better? Is there any points that seems weird/outdated/not optimal?

2. shikashi yakubautsu ＿＿＿＿ tomoshige ga taiho sare soun ni

   what’d he say??

   [Vocaroo | 音声ファイルをアップロード](https://vocaroo.com/1ok21Te8sCgG)

3. What is the best way to use graded readers as a beginner with very little vocab. I got a set of level 0 readers but i dont know the best way to use them. I could go throu and look up every word i dont know but im not sure how effective that would be

4. Kinda going crazy trying to decipher what the heck does どうにかなって means in this paragraph.

   こんなことになるなら、夏休みのあの日にどうにかなってしまえば良かったと一瞬思う。ああいうことはするべきじゃないことだと結論付けてはいるけれど、どうにかなっていればつまらないことを考える前に舞香と同じ大学を受けると仙台さんに言えたような気がする。

   For context 夏休みのあの日 = narrator almost sleep with her friend, but pull out last minute. They are both still in denial about their feelings. Narrator is stubborn and don’t want to admit that she only want to go to this certain university so that she can be close to this friend she almost sleep with (and has feelings for). So when the friend she has feelings for pressed her about it, she makes it seem that she only wanted to go to this university because her other friend 舞香 also wants to go there but she doesn’t want to outright admit it and is being vague about her choice of university.

5. Just want to be clear about あいだ、 うち、 ところ and ばかり。 Please correct me if i am wrong.
   あいだ – to describe A that happened during time frame of B.
   うち – same but A and B has to be related? And its more imprecise?
   ところ – to describe B that happened at a certain moment within timeframe of A?
   ばかり – just done with A and B happened.

6. Beginner here…. what part of 自転車をおきます means “to park” (a bike)????

   I’m going through some Tadoku Readers (Level 0 lol) and came across this sentence. I thought that 起きます（起きる）was to get up, or an event occurrence. But I can see on Google Translate that the sentence basically says “I park my bike.” Which part of the Japanese sentence translates to that?

7. is it incorrect to use を in this type of sentence? 「誰かにそのことを助かってもらいたい」”I want someone to help me with that.” I’m trying to understand which part of the predicate affects the particle usage, it feels incorrect because 助かって is intransitive and もらう usually takes を but たい can take either を or が.

   こんな文章が「を」という助詞を使うのは違いますか。「誰かにそのことを助かってもらいたい」。”I want someone to help me with that.” 述語に関してどの部分が助詞の使用に影響するかを理解しようとしています。「助かって」は自動詞なので違うような気がします。その上「もらう」という動詞は普通に「を」が使われます、「たい」という形容詞は「を」または「が」が使われることができます。