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1. I’m using Japanese From Zero! and wondering when it’s time to move on to the next chapter. I read the chapter, make flash cards, then what? Study them until I can memorize all of them, then move to the next chapter?

2. How do you find/type the kanji to put onto a anki card? I tried using google translate but that only gives hiragana and katakana.

3. reading the X ば X ほど Y grammar from quartet 1 chapter 2. Got questions about some of the example sentences.

   1)４月から住むアパートは、どんなところがいい？

   A: What kind of apartment do you want to live in, starting April?

   駅から近ければちかいほど便利でいいよね

   B: The closer it is to the station, the more convenient it is.

   Thats the english translation that the textbook gives, but if its an apartment i want to live in, why isnt it 住みたい instead? Also, does the で after 便利 mean because/so, or something else? I thought it was “because/so”, but then the sentence sounds a little weird to me, like “The closer it is to the station, the more convenient it is, so good”

   2. 外国語は話せば話すほど上手になります

   “The more i study a foreign language, the more ill be good at it”(at the language)?

   3. 仕事は、大変であればあるほど、チャレンジしたくなる

   The チャレンジしたくなる is confusing me, I understand this as “the more harder the work, the more ill get/become challenged”

   4. 値段が高いホテルであればあるほど、サービスもよくなるだろう

   “The more expensive the hotel’s price is, the more good(better?) the service will also(も）probably be”?

4. Do you know any AI apps that can simulate a conversation in Japanese?
   Like if I say something, the app can understand what I say (provided I speak it correctly), and then give back an answer?

5. From manga’s dedication page,

   > 僕をアタゴオルに導き五月のひかりの線路を昇っていったハーモニカ吹き岡田光夫に

   五月のひかりの線路を昇っていったハーモニカ means a harmonica that climbs the light path of May?

   I am bit confused by the grammar used here. It is clear to me that both 僕をアタゴオルに導き and 五月のひかりの線路を昇っていったハーモニカ吹き modifies 岡田光夫. But why both verbs 導き and 吹き are in 連用形 form?

6. Is finishing only 1-2 chapters per hour normal for a learner’s first time reading LNs? The novel I’m currently reading is くまクマ熊ベアー. Before then, I read some short stories from Satori Reader and articles from NHK News Easy and Todaii. I’m 10 months into learning Japanese (currently studying N3) and know around 3000 vocabs based on my anki. The site I’m reading from says I’m only at 10/837 chapters so I thought at this rate it would take me a whole year to finish one LN and I’m not sure I would prefer just reading one genre for that entirety of the year.

   Is this normal or will I progressively get faster at reading the novel at some point?

7. Help me understand the nuance of this sentence

   Souta: そんなに気になるの? アレの測り方?

   Akane: 気になるっていうか･･････壮太くんにしか聞けないし

   I got confused, is Akane actually curious or not?

8. How do I start reading? I’ve done Recognition RTK, doing Kaishi 1.5k right now. Also on lesson 4 of Genki 1.

   I want to start reading manga in Japanese but not sure what the best app is. I have an android phone and Windows desktop. I also read Twitter exclusively in Japanese. I have Yomitan extension on Chrome. Not sure what else is good. I installed Textractor, maybe suggest some VN’s for me?

9. Is であります like a very polite way to end a sentence? I’m playing a game and this lower ranking police officer keeps ending every single one of his sentences in であります when you (not a higher ranking official) talk to him