Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (July 18, 2023)

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1. Please recommend online Japanese courses which can be passed at my own pace. I’m interested in what I can advance from the beginning to the B1-B2 level.
   Better if it will be something like an online “online trainer”.

2. I saw this comment (to a [music](https://youtu.be/XEEXE8Ei5SA) video): これはまたお洒落に歩かせてくれそうな曲だな

   and wondered if it was usual to use お洒落 like this. I remember seeing it in relation to clothing: おおうこうが噂の…お洒落甚平着てる人初めて見た

3. I was wondering if anyone has any tips for looking up grammar during immersion? To be honest I’m not sure how to do this. I’d say I’m probably at around an n5 level. I use a pop up dictionary for each word. A lot of the times I can’t understand the grammar structure of a sentence.

   I see Bunpro has a grammar table but I’m not really sure how to use it effectively with immersion

4. Planning on taking N2 in dec after passing N3 last year. The issue is that I haven’t really studied at all over the last half year except for reading some manga once in a while. I also relied heavily on stuff like Wanikani to learn kanji, got to around level 55 but decided to reset all my progress for some reason I dont even remember anymore, so now I’m only at level 10. I remember maybe 60-70% of what I had learnt

   How do I even approach this? I’ve been watching some nihongo no mori videos and got the shinkanzen master books but I still feel like I need to catch up on a lot simply because I forgot a bunch of grammar points and vocab over the last 6 months. I do plan on cramming for the next few months and try my hardest but I also read that the difference between N3 and N2 is huge, so I’m at a loss

5. Anyone passed N2 knowing 900 kanji? I don’t think it’s feasible for me to get further than that in WaniKani by December, and I want to go for it. (Also, WaniKani isn’t for JLPT, so it might not be the optimal 900 😬)