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So, longshot maybe – but does anyone know of any online Japanese second hand bookstores that accept foreign credit cards, Paypal, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, or some other payment method that you don’t need to exist in Japan to have access to. Normally I use Amazon Marketplace and it’s fine, but I would rather do a single big order with one shop and combine the local shipping (they’ll combine the order on Marketplace, but charge you shipping for everything individually just the same, it seems). My great idea was to use BookOff, but apparently they don’t accept foreign credit cards, and I’ve looked at a bunch of others that also don’t seem to or have other weird hoops that need jumping through.
Edit: Aha, Mandarake!
I’ll be heading back to work next week and back to a 2.5 hour round trip commute.
Can anyone recommend a good ‘learn Japanese’ podcast to listen to?
Any beginners japanese learning book recommendations? The only experience I have in japanese is duolingo, I got pretty far and I know hiragana and katakana + some basic kanji
N5 question here. I was going through flashcards and one said 一月 was ひとつき? That was confusing because I previously learned that one month should be 一ヶ月（いっかげつ）and January should be 一月（いちがつ）. So where does this ひとつき (one moon?) come in? Or is it just wrong?
Are there any words in Japanese that have hiragana followed by kanji or are ever written using that format? For example if I wrote up a word 和食 like わ食?
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Hello guys, sorry for bothering, but can someone write “Florin” in the shortest form please ?
Anyone knows the name of this genre/style of music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQJ6dnq8fhY