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I’m watching a show I really like with dual subtitles (Japanese and English) on Netflix and is it okay to have the furigana show over the Japanese words or could that be slowing me down?
I’m using the furigana mostly to look up the words in the dictionary, I’ll probably ditch the furigana once I’ve looked up all the words I don’t know and saved them to a list, to be studied later.
The show is admittedly above my level but I love it so much!
What’s your favorite Japanese idiom?
[何](#fg “なに”)
So I’m playing through 逆転裁判, and I’m seeing ～てやる quite a lot, e.g., ‘助けてやりたい’. Is that similar to ～てあげる?
I’ve finally started learning grammar in earnest, and I’m a little confused by this example sentence in Imabi:
14. 日本人は2人でした。
There were two Japanese people.
Grammar Note: The “there” in the English sentence is a filler subject for which there is no Japanese equivalent.
My understanding is that the sentence「AはBでした」 is roughly equivalent to “A was B.” But here it seems like は is being used completely differently, almost in the same way の would be used to connect an adjective to a noun. Is は really being used differently here?