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Made this originally on /r/languagelearning but my post got munched since I’m a former lurker. Anyways reposting here to just like… sanity check?
Am I wasting my time reading aloud my anki card’s context sentences?
Hi hi! I’ve got a ton of anki cards with context sentences, usually 2-3 per card, that I encountered the word in. As you can imagine reading all these out loud when I get about 80-100 cards a day minimum and usually try for at least 20 new words a day is an absolute ton of speaking. It can take me around a two hours depending on my motivation, energy and how much my adhd wants to interrupt. And I’m pretty sure my retention is good and I feel like I’m making progress but I’ve started wondering especially with my job picking up a lot of hours it’s getting harder and harder to do this everyday. Is there any sort of like, linguistic evidence for what am I doing is helpful or am I taking 2 hours to do what I could probably do in 15-25 minutes and do other stuff?
管から水が吹き出した。
かん？くだ？
Do japanese struggle with Katakana Digraphs like ファ and ティ？
Since phonemes like Ti, Fa and Di isn’t used in Traditional Japanese phonology and sometimes is swapped for easier variants, do a majority of Japanese people have problems with pronouncing things like Tu, Fi, Yi , Ye, Fo?
Do they usually pronounced it just like Ti and Fa? With One Mora? Or would most japanese people say it like Tei and Fua with two mora?
I want to learn to pronounce these words like a typical japanese and it just gives me a strange bad gut feeling if I were to say it correctly.
Thank you for any help!
Hello, I am looking for YouTube channels that teach grammar. I know these channels:
Tokini Andy
Game Gengo
Kaname Naito
In doing the A1-B2 Japanese course on Busuu and it’s been going well. Almost done with A1. The only thing i’m concerned about is that I might not be learning vocabulary and kanji at the same speed as i’m learning grammar. Should I learn these two on the side or should I just stick to the course material? I am not trying to be ahead or anything just want to have a strong vocabulary base when I finish the course.
Given: 他にもこんなものがあります=There are also other things like this. What puzzles me is that AFAIK こんなもの is the subject in JP but “the other things” is the subject in EN. In the JP sentence, I see the も and が particles. Both can be used after the subject. If I had to choose, I’d go with が but I don’t have a good reason. How should I analyze this sentence?