Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (October 18, 2022)

5 comments

1. お疲れしゃーした

   I know this means “Nice work,” but what is しゃーした .

2. Is there anything similar to spoonfed Chinese? The amount of prompts to translate from English to Chinese and vice versa and the I+1 format is the best I’ve ever seen. My Chinese has skyrocketed passed my Japanese despite spending way less time with it and starting way later. Tango n5 doesn’t come close imo, nor does any other anki deck i’ve tried so far.

3. Is there a truly excellent flash card site that isn’t just kanji?

   I’m struggling to remember vocab, but don’t know the kanji for it just yet. I just want to practice the vocab in hiragana/katakana OR kanji with the furigana. I’d love to mix the kanji in I know as well.

   It seems like every site I hit up either requires a ton of set up work, is basically all about the kanji, or they’re like… preset dictionaries instead of letting me add in something.

   Any info would be fantastic – thanks!

4. This is something I was curious about, is it possible to use the に particle as an “and”? Or something in a similar vein?

   I’ve seen a while ago in a certain song this phrase:

   アニメにゲームが大好き

   Where you’d expect a と or や or w/e. But since it’s a song maybe the grammar is iffy.

   But in a visual novel I played today I got something similar I believe. Girl was going through a box and found only manga in there, and she went at first:

   漫画に漫画に漫画に漫画に and so as she’s searching through the box.

   So I assume there is some usage to it like that?

   Thanks~

5. I recently watched S2E6 of 暗殺教室 and came across this line:

   つまり、たくさんの子供たちがたくさん遊ぶほど園長先生が助かる仕組み。

   All this while, I’ve been under the impression that the ‘the more… the more’ grammar construct always comes with the ‘ba’ conditional i.e. ば～ほど

   Am I right in assuming that the sentence is actually the truncated form of this?

   つまり、たくさんの子供たちが (遊べば) たくさん遊ぶほど園長先が助かる仕組み。

   Does this mean that you can actually omit the ‘ba’ conditional when trying to express ‘the more… the more’ expression?

   Thanks in advance!