Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (January 11, 2023)

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4 comments
  1. I’m trying to use Tadoku free books on Kindle with the vocabulary builder feature but seems is not working if it’s not in Kindle format, converting to that format seems destroying the book entirely. Anyone faced this problem? Thanks!

  2. Why is けしゴム written in Hiragana and Katakana? I’m looking through Genki 1 and came across this. I’m confused on how it works.

  3. Could someone help break down the grammar of this sentence for me? I understand all the meanings of the verbs, but the way it is phrased throws me off and I don’t understand what the second clause means.

    thank you

    まるで自分に言い聞かすような、誰もいないところへ向かって喋るような口調だった。

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