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1. Hello! I was working on Chapter 9 workbook for Genki 1 and came cross this audio dialogue.

   じゃん：先週のパーティーの気です。

   ロパート：ケーキを食べている人がじゅんさんで
   すね。

   じゅん：ええ。

   ロバート：ワインを飲んでいる人はだれですか。

   じゅん：ぼくの友だちです。

   ロバート：きれいなんですね。この歌を歌っている女の人もきれいですね。

   じゅん：ああ、ほくの妹ですよ。そのとなりが弟です。

   ロバート：この踊っている人はだれですか。

   じゅん：姉と友だちのマイケルです。

   ロバート: そうですか。この後ろのソファで寝ている男の人は？

   じゅん: 父です。犬のポチも軽ています。

   ロバート：じゃあ、お母さんは？

   じゅん：はいません。写真を撮っていましたから。

   I have two quick questions about two grammar points within this dialogue.

   (1) So the context is the conversation is looking at a picture from a party. When じゅん said ああ、ほくの妹ですよ。そのとなりが弟です。 Why did he not say 妹となりが弟です or 弟は妹となりです。 I’m assuming he didn’t because during the conversation じゅん could have pointed and said そのとなりが弟です。?

   (2) 犬のポチも軽ています。 For this sentence, I know what it means but I’m unsure why the name of the dog, ポチ, is connected with の to 犬. Is it a rule that pet names are connected with の?

   Thank you for your help!

   *if there’s typos in the dialogue, it’s because I took a picture of the dialogue and copied and pasted it. I tried to fix some of the typos already.* 😀

2. Could YOU learn Japanese in 3 month if you started again and has unlimited time?
   Goal is bond 5.5 in speaking on ielts but for Japanese (imaginary)

   Stupid question that produces no value 👍

   edit: I changed the bond from 7 to 5, who knows what I was smoking while writing this for the first time

3. This is a question more-so for future me, but…

   When would learning about other dialects come into play? I’m learning so I can travel eventually, but I know most learning is through the Tokyo dialect? At what point could I start branching into dialects?

   I’m not particularly caring about learning in order of N-levels, rather I’m learning what’s interesting to me. So, would / could it hurt to look into dialects now and keep that in the back of my head?

4. I don’t know why but most any vocab that starts with a K Sound throws me off entirely. Like my brain just won’t retain them especially ones that start with かい けい and こう.

   Does anyone have experience with this kind of problem?

5. Why isn’t “Wi-Fi” written is kana?

   Most (if not all) articles I’ve read lately tend to write Wi-Fi in rōmaji instead of it being written in kana (Which if I’m not wrong, should be ワイファイ). Why is it like that? As far as I know, the only things that aren’t written in kana are the ones that are impossible to transcribe, and in most cases it’s only one letter (e.g. Tシャツ).