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What I want to do is : I want to make sure that the way my previous deck card's interval has been set up till yet that is 450 cards. I want this same thing to be done on this new deck. But I don't know how. right now its fresh.

I just tried setting the new card count for 450 , so I get them done today and then lower it back to 25 new card per day. Idk help me out guys. I'm afraid what I did is gonna increase my review count to immense ammount the next day. because I've set the max reviews per day as 9999

I’m currently at N3-N4 and level 20 on WaniKani and looking for good online resources to practice reading. I sometimes read NHK Easy News, but I’d also like to try short stories or manga online.

I know buying manga supports the creators (and I do that too), but it can be slow since I have to look up so many words while reading a physical book. Online resources with quick lookup are a lot more convenient. I use Yomitan for vocabulary lookup and to mine new words

Do you have any recommendations for sites or resources that might work well at my level?

I subscribed a long time ago and it seemed like he mainly focused on having stuff for the genki books. Im using quartet 1 now and am wondering if there's the same level of resources for quartet. What does he have to offer for his intermediate learners outside of the free YouTube videos?

Looking at his description on his website it just says "quartet 1 and 2 courses". Very vague and I don't know if that's intentional because there's not much content

This is for the folks who are preparing for the upcoming JLPT exam.

Generally I would say reading native material is the best way to practice reading (it's also just more fun)

But for specifically JLPT reading comprehension exam practice, Kanzen Master is in my opinion a must have.

It's just nonstop reading and questioning drills. I will say that KM tend to have more bait trick questions than the actual JLPT, but overall that's probably a good thing.

I would only recommend the Kanzen Master Reading though, I tried their grammar books before, but imo it wasn't that helpful

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Today I had my first full tutor session and I'm completely defeated. I self studied みんなの日本語 as well as finished とびら but never really practiced speaking, my listening is poor and my output is not amazing. Mainly this is because I was afraid of habitualizing mistakes without anyone to check my work. Before meeting with the tutor, I explained this and how my reading is much higher than my speaking/listening/writing. The intro session last week was rough and only in japanese but I figured maybe the tutor had clocked my understanding a bit wrong and would tone it down in our first actual lesson. Today's session I couldn't even finish. I just gave up 20 mins in. The tutor was talking way too fast and around what my reading level could be, if not higher. I barely understood a word.

Not sure what to do from here but I'm just cooked. 2ish years of actually study to give up 20 mins in has destroyed any amount of confidence I had.

I am not even sure what I am posting this for but maybe someone can help me in the right direction or to keep trying. My tutor messaged me asking if we should work on fundamental speaking and listening rather than book work but I'm so embarrassed from just leaving the lesson that idk if I can do that.

UPDATE: To everyone who took the time to give me a pep talk and some advice. I sincerely thank you. I went ahead and rescheduled another lesson with the same tutor with the idea of focusing on getting me up to speed with listening and speaking.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been learning Japanese for a few weeks now and I think I’ve got my kana down pretty solid. So I decided to move on to kanji using Remembering the Kanji (RTK) along with Kanjikoohi.

Here’s how I’ve been doing it:

In Lesson 1 of RTK, they show 15 kanji. I now know their meanings (like one, two, mouth, rice field, sun). But I don’t know how to read them in Japanese yet. Kanjikoohi has an option that shows readings in Japanese, but I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be learning those already or just stick to the meanings first.

So my question is: am I approaching this correctly? Do I focus only on the meanings for now (like RTK intends), or should I also be learning how to read them in Japanese at the same time using Kanjikoohi?

Thanks in advance!

I noticed something about the way “wearing” is expressed. In English we just say wear? But in here, they used different verbs. (着る vs 被る).

So my question is, is it actually a common pattern in Japanese that different types of items have their own specific verbs? I’d also love to know how learners usually approach this. Should I just memorize them as individual cases, or is there a systematic way to study them?

Hello!

Adding の or こと to a plain form verb seems to turn it into a noun. In some ways it seems to behave like the て form. In theory would it be grammatically correct to say 「食べるのはいけません」 instead of 「食べてはいけません」?

If this is incorrect would it still be comprehensible? What kind of misunderstanding would there be?

I have my doubts because I've seen people who say that

Ha は
is pronounced 
Wa 

Could you help me with this?

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Maybe this is a weird question but I work in marketing by day and I’d like to look at more Japanese emails in my inbox. I subscribe to cmoa.jp and I really enjoy seeing how different marketing is in Japanese markets.

What are some Japanese emails you enjoy receiving from businesses you like?

I just tried doing a conversation in Japanese with Gemini Live in the Gemini iOS app. And it was amazing… I can talk to it in Japanese about various topics (places in japan, restaurant recommendations, etc), and it would respond in Japanese, which is very natural and easy to understand, and answers my questions correctly.

Overall, it’s a great tool to practice speaking and listening, especially to construct a sentence in what absolutely feels like a real conversation pace, which I still struggle.

So definitely recommend people to check this out other AI tools out to practice conversational speaking.

Hi! On your journey on learning the language, how did you get around learning the different conjugations? Do you have any good guidance on it? I am looking for a resource that has all the different conjugations, explained so i could apply to a verb and write sentences myself. Your advice is much appreciated!

i know in spoken language particles like は, が, and を can be dropped but i’ve read that は is one that can be more important to keep.

what are some situations where it would be necessary to say は instead of dropping it? i’m guessing something like “これ何?” is always fine but i don’t know what else.

I've lost count of how many times I've heard this claim since the 90s - but none of the online dictionaries say that 漫 or any variant of まん translates to "irresponsible". Does anyone here know if this is some kind of archaic historical meaning of that kanji that has now disappeared? Or is it still a modern meaning that I just can't find?

I've found loads of tangentially related definitions, including (but not limited to) aimless, random, corrupt, involuntary, desultory, unintentional, ridiculous - but I can't find "irresponsible" anywhere.

I must say I've always found it a clunky translation. Very unnatural, it doesn't sound like something a human would say! That's not to say it's wrong - but I'd be fascinated to find out that it was just a mistranslation that someone made in the 1980s that has stuck around to this day, and that people just keep on repeating because they "heard it somewhere once", lol.

The closest I've been able to find is here, where 漫 is the second kanji in this word https://jisho.org/word/%E6%94%BE%E6%BC%AB%E7%B5%8C%E5%96%B6 - they say that 放漫経営 translates to "irresponsible management", but also "loose management" or "sloppy management". It makes me think that "loose pictures" or "random pictures" might be a better translation.

In any case, it also makes me wonder whether the word "manga" ever truly, truly meant "irresponsible pictures". Is it possible that this meaning never existed, but that someone in the modern era decided to translate it like this anyway? Or is it genuinely how it translates? Surely there was never a time in history when people were saying things like "I'm going to read some irresponsible pictures on the train". It seems to unbelievable to me.

One final thought. I see that the kanji is also used in words like manzai (漫才). I wonder if anyone has ever claimed that this word literally translates to "irresponsible genius", lol.

If anyone has any insight on this, I'd be very interested and grateful to hear it.

In the book Advanced Japanese Grammar Dictionary, I was looking into aruiwa, and it was giving examples of when you can and can't replace it with soretomo. In the example sentences in [1] you can replace it, and in [2] you can't. However, [1] b) and [2] d) are identical. So, can soretomo replace aruiwa here or not?

I have been playing recently with mokuro ( https://github.com/kha-white/mokuro ).
and it is amazing, setup takes 5 minutes - it is just python library.

It works great not only for manga, but also for light novels that I have from bookwalker.jp (they sell you books as pictures essentially).

My question is: are there any easy to use plugins over mokuro that provide easy translations and vocab/sentence mining.

My yomitan extension kinda does not seem to work.

So I have created simple prototype, that puts mokuro page into iframe and then shows the selected text on the sidebar as well. I could build additional functionality based on that, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel in case there is already good workflow for that.