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1. I have hiragana and katakana down now, and I’d like to start learning grammar. What are some good resources for learning grammar? I’m finding it difficult to begin as the grammar is so different from ENG. Any advice?

2. I know this is a tech question but I’ll ask it here anyway in case any other language learners have a similar issue.

   I like to play Japanese audio on my phone as I drive/walk/run/clean house etc. I put files from shadowing books and graded readers on my iPhone and I’ve been using VLC to listen to them.

   The problem is that VLC doesn’t seem to allow me to name the “Albums” that the get randomly assigned to. Most are “Unknown Artist” or “??????????????”.

   It’s really difficult to keep track of the audios this way.

   I don’t know if this is an iPhone issue or a VLC issue.

   Does anyone put the audio files from book on their iPhone? Do you have this issue? Is there an mp3 reader for iPhone that doesn’t have this problem.

   Thanks

3. 頂きAND頂きまして

   お時間をいただきまして誠にありがとうございました。
   お時間をいただきて誠にありがとうございました。

   [after reading this explanation, just to be clear: ](https://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/726877.html)adding まして makes the sentence more nuanced and polite, i think? i wonder if im completely off or this is correct.

   what’s the difference between 頂きAND頂きまして?

4. The etymology of Japanese words is so fascinating to me, especially some of these “pseudo”-loan words. (Wikipedia calls this a calque, or a word-for-word translation into another language e.g. “Flea Market” from French)

   Like:

   摩天楼

   摩 (ma, “scraping”) +‎ 天 (ten, “sky”) +‎ 楼 (rō, “building with two or more stories”), or calque of English skyscraper.

5. A girl puts a condom on an erect penis (which looks straight to me) and commented 実際はこれくらい皮(かわ)がたわむ感じなんですね. 皮 refers to the skin covering penis, not condom, right? I don’t get what 皮がたわむ means here.

6. Is there a difference in pitch accent on いい男 when it’s いい + 男 vs ‘good-looking man’?