Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (August 20, 2023)

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1. Just got my copy of Tango N5. I was planning on using it on its own (along with Genki and RTK), but would it make a big difference to use an Anki deck with/instead of it? If so, which one?

2. I saw a botanical drawing with the word みづたまさう as a label of a plant. I looked it up and I see みづたまそう (水玉草) to be the more standard reading.

   Is さう an old reading of 草? I see サウ [listed as a reading in goo辞書](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/kanji/%E8%8D%89/) but no explanation. My googling is also failing me.

3. In this sentence:

   なんか一部の男子の間ではその無表情で凛とした感じから「雪女」って呼ばれてるらしいぞ

   What does 間 mean?

4. is てやる and てくれ similar?

   Like, 言ってくれ and 言ってやる

5. https://i.imgur.com/ESU5qPl.mp4

   How would you take this scene without subs?

   I’m guessing same joke just not as obvious/spoonfed as subbed? Was just wondering if there are other differences with the pronunciation and whatnot

6. Whats the best verb in japanese for coordination? as in the meaning of making things, people to act and behave consistently together

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   also whats the best translation for being responsive? as in being prepared to act quickly to changing circumstances.

7. Is this generally correct;

   しかしなそんなこと100年間で１度も無いんだぜ
   However that kind of thing hasn’t happened once in a hundred years

   Expect its the 年間 that isn’t have never seen it used as a counter for years before, does feel right in context.