Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (September 29, 2023)

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1. **Are there common phrases for “First time traveling here” or “Is this your first trip to Japan”?**

   I’ve been studying Japanese on and off (along with Spanish, Ukrainian, German, French, Dutch and Purtugese) for about 15 years. Language learning is more of a hobby. I’ve been to Japan about 9 times and soon will make my 10th journey.

   I am hoping to do some active listening on this next trip for some phrases that have eluded me every trip (I have been lucky to have some English-speaking friends help catch and translate the question).

   I asked one of my fluent friends, and he said I might hear something that sounds like “Saisho no sabe desuka?”

2. I have the slightest irk with anki- is there a way for it to automatically start at the TOP of the page when I flip a card compared to the bottom? It’s incredibly annoying to manually scroll up to see the Kanji above the reading if I have a long dictionary entry.

3. Someone is fighting a lion and they say this:

   > レオンを、イラッとさせるんだ！。

   I think this means “Lion you’re making me mad” or something like this

   But I can’t figure out what is going on with that を particle. I saw stuff like に and が with causative form usually.

   And the particle could change the meaning to like, “You’re making the lion mad”, so this probably matters.