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1. https://ibb.co/C9SsyRs

   I wonder what 解釈不一致 means here. Also I am not sure about the meaning of 重い.

2. Would I be wrong in using 委員会長 instead of 委員長?

   Here’s how I understand the difference:

   The first word, Chairperson (委員会長), is constructed from Committee (委員会) + Leader (長)

   The second word, Chairperson ( 委員長), is constructed from Committee Member (委員) + Leader (長)

   As I understand it the second word ( 委員長) is more widely used. However the first word (委員会長) makes more sense to my brain and I’d prefer to use it for reference. Would I be wrong in doing so?

3. Hi guys, I’m looking to take the JLPT this December, but unsure if I should do N5 or N4?

   Going through the Genki books at the moment and should be plenty of time to finish (lesson 8 now in Genki I). Would N5 be too easy once I finish Genki? So maybe go for atleast N4?

   Vocab is decent with about 2.5k unique words (matured on Anki) from 2k/6k deck and N5/N4 Tango decks. Also went through RTK earlier in the year.

4. Anki/vocab/sentence mining question:

   I’m currently using a deck based on Tango N5 and plan on moving on to a Tango N4 deck after. I plan on starting immersion around 2-3k words in. I have decks for the entire Tango series so 10k words. My question is this: Once I start immersing and sentence mining, should I stop taking new cards from the more traditional vocab decks and focus on my own cards I gain from sentence mining?

   By that time, I plan on taking 20 cards a day. I’m thinking of 2 different scenarios, which of these sounds more appropriate:

   **Scenario 1:** I take 10 cards from traditional Tango n4/n3 deck and mine 10 cards from immersion.

   **Scenario 2:** I stop taking cards from traditional decks and make 20 cards per day focusing all my time on immersion.

5. I saw this practice sentence today and got a little tripped up

   もう少し意識して見ていれば、おかしなことが起こっているということに気付いたと思う。

   Can someone explain 意識して見る here?

   The provided translation for もう少し意識して見ていれば、was “If I looked with a little bit more awareness,”

   Is the して making 意識 function like an adverb here? If so does that work for other する verbs?

   Or is the して here chaining the verbs, like “if i was a little more aware AND I looked”?

6. What does ったけ mean in くびったけ？

7. Is there a polite or fomal version of っけ?

   I feel like that っけ is usually used in questions to express something you used to remember but suddenly forgot, like:

   会議は何時からでしたっけ When was the start of meeting again?

   何の話をしていたっけ What were we just talking about?

   But does this kind of expression used in formal speech, or it only exists in casual speech?

8. If you see a quotation (at least, something in quote brackets like「」) and と, the quote particle, what does it mean if the verb after と is not a verb you use with quotes (such as 思う, 言う), say, something like (adj.+なる, as in, to become)? I read a sentence that’s like that, but I’m not sure how to interpret it. Is there another meaning for the particle when used like that? (The sentence may be a homework question so to avoid posting it, I ask about the concept in the sentence).

9. When I’m getting a haircut, would 側面（そくめん）be appropriate for referring to the sides of my head? How about the top and back?

10. New to learning a language and not much in the way of results yet, but I understand it is hardest at the beginning when you don’t know anything. I’ve been listening to a lot of Japanese, movies mostly, some anime, and so far I can only pick out some phrases when I hear them like thank you, good morning, hello, I don’t understand, and a few others. So that means almost everything else is just unintelligible to me. At least I’ve listened to enough of it now to recognize that it is Japanese, and not Chinese, or Korean.

    I look forward to the day when I can understand what I am hearing but I have a feeling that is a long ways off.

    It’s oddly frustrating to constantly listen to a language you don’t understand.

11. Hello guys, I want to ask how to say time duration in Japanese. Like “within 3 seconds, answer this question”, something like that.

    Thank you!

12. What is the meaning of ておく in this sentence? The context: A guy moved back to a town he was away from for 7 years and asked about an aquarium that apparently has been closed down. He asks about the building itself and hears that the building may or may not have been demolished. He thinks to himself this:

    せめて外観でも一度みておきたいよな。

    I know that ておく　means to do something in advance or leave something in a state but I can never understand how this meaning fits in sentences like these. Is there another meaning of ておく　I’m missing?