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

6 comments

1. Is there any difference between 絵 and 画?

2. I’ve taken a rather large break from Japanese, and need a reminder on the resources to use. Didn’t want to make a full post, as I’m sure it’s a frequent question.
   My main goal atm is to get to the point that I can read Manga from the CoroCoro Comic magazine in Japanese, and progress from there. There are a couple resources that I can remember using, but I don’t know if there are better alternatives/if they’ve improved or declined in quality since then (1-2 years ago)

   The resources I remember using are:
   **The Human Japanese app** (I found it a little all over the place, dunno if it’s improved or maybe it’s good enough I should give it another shot)
   **Duolingo** (this was rather bad when I tried it, even me not knowing much could point out mistakes, but I remember people saying it was slowly improving. Is it good enough now to use?)
   **JapanesePod101** (I never had an easy time learning in this format)

   I also have the **Kanji tree** app, which I remember liking. You can separate the kanji into grade levels and N5—N1. How many grades would you recommend completing to reach my goal?

   I obviously don’t expect to have everything memorized before I even touch a manga—I expect to have to look things up, and learn as I go. But I’d like to at least understand a little, so I’m not completely lost.

   Thanks.

3. Need help with this

   Dono kanji is 殿 and shown various sites this aswell which i assume is the kana どの version

   So if someone used that kana version instead of the kanji 殿 would you be able to tell what it meant or not

   Thank you

4. Hi! 👋🏼

   I’d appreciate if somebody could explain the nuances between those two sentences:

   1. この絵は色がきれいです。
   2. この絵の色はきれいです。

   Is the only difference that the first one focuses on the picture and the second one emphasises the colour?

   ありがとう！

5. This sentence seemed…weirdly ordered to me?

   詩の上手い下手は問わず、とにかく、苦しみ抜き、心を狂わせてまで、自分が生涯執着したものを、一部でも後世に伝えないままでは、死んでも死にきれないのだ。

   context: poet wants his poems to outlive him

   It think it’s like, “Skilled or not, anyway, without suffering, even if my heart goes crazy, my lifelong obsession, if I don’t pass down one part, then even if I die I won’t really be dead.”

6. I read this today: 神人の土他へ which Google Translate reveals as “to the shrine of the divine.” I know all of these kanji, but I can’t find the word 土他 in the dictionary. Is it an archaic word for shrine? And is it pronounced つちほか ?