So this is the second time im recently seeing the captioned used and getting confused by it. In my head it should be .....から....と言われました。In other words FROM x person i was TOLD whatever (japanese way: x person FROM whatever whatever whatever I was TOLD.).

Instead I have been seeing に being used which feels more like TO x person not FROM. is this typical? Is it a typo? am I misreading? The example below is from a blog a lady was writing about her son:

私は、夫婦喧嘩をしている環境で子どもを育てる事が本当に嫌で、子どもに、大丈夫か、トラウマになっていないか、ついつい聞いてしまい、逆に旦那は子どもには機嫌がいいとき以外ホントに何も言わないのですが、つい最近、高校生長男に、ママは偉そうに分かってるふうに色々言ってくるけど、ウザい。寧ろ考え方はオカシイけど何も言わないパパの方がマシ、と言われました。

Has anyone combined the used of audio and physical books? Originally I was just going to listen to books when driving, but I thought about using in tandem with a physical copy. My idea was to listen; read listen and dictionary; and then read. Has anyone tried this or similar? Any success? in a way I do this with shows that I watch.

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I swear to gods my weebness levels were totally under control just before I started to learn Japanese. Granted, I occasionally watched some anime, played some Japanese video games but that's probably it.

1.5 year into learning Japanese I caught myself becoming a massive weeb:

• from movies/series I watch almost exclusively anime
• 90% of new song added to my Spotify list are in Japanese
• I have not read a single book that was neither some form of textbook nor manga
• I am up to date with Japanese (easy) news
• I even started to eat ramen and cook some Japanese cuisine myself

The only thing left is severe allergies to deodorant and showering! (good that I already have wife and kids, probably would own waifu pillow by now otherwise.)
This post is only half joke, please send help.

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Up until yesterday, I listened to a lot of political streamers (in English) passively in an earbud while i was working, going around town or whatever. I want to replace this with some sort of method to improve my Japanese. One of the benefits of listening too streamers or VODs was the fact that they were 8 hour forms of content so i didnt need to manage my device during this time.

I know that active studying is much more effective, but i want to replace this gap in my media consumption with something to help improve my Japanese. If theres some sort of long form or playlist of content i could listen to to even improve my language skills a little bit, it would be better than just music.

Open to any recommendations! Thank you

Context:

• Went through all of Genki --> Half of Tobira in university classes (classes were pointless for measuring my actual Japanese skill but mentioning to mention what textbooks I have and went through)
• idk what JLPT level I am but I can go through the N2 practice questions online with ease (N1 is a whole different story but I'm breaking in with WaniKani and Anki immersion)

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Genki is a classic for breaking into Japanese grammar. I really like Tobira because it's in Japanese.

I feel like my Japanese grammar is really bad though. I stopped "studying" grammar a while ago.

Bunpro has been a super good reference for me. I like how it explains nuances of each grammar point - not just "here's how to say this". And I really like how it dileneates the form of grammar points (plug and play with specific word type / particles), as well as how it uses actual Japanese grammatical terms (連用形, etc.,) in the English explanations with plenty of examples. I feel like going through a Japanese grammar textbook for Japanese would be really good for me.

You see, the thing is, textbooks are kind of boring now. I've been brute forcing just learning the words in games I want to play / things I see online, and when I see something related to grammar I want to look up, I look it up on bunpro and/or ask an LLM. And I think it's kind of working.

I'm a big SRS believer so I've been wondering if I should pick up a Bunpro subscription, but I am already doing WaniKani and immersion Anki. To be honest, I'm not too scared of overloading myself, but I'm scared it might not be worth the marginal benefit. If I start from N2, I'm worried about not reaping the benefit because I lack a solid foundation. If I start from N5, I'm worried I might get bored and stop because I already know everything.

I am leaning toward just dropping the $150 (I think spending the money for WK actually helped me stay invested and want to finish the program) and just self-pacing myself, and then any time where I would look up something in bunpro when consuming native content, I also just add it to my SRS queue (or whatever term the use in bunpro - it's been a while 🙂).

Has anyone else been in my position? What did you do?

I'm kinda frustrated about that. The problem isn't even that they're oddly specific, but that they're also very short and have homonyms too. I don't mind it when reading since even if I don't know the word it might have an intituive meaning thanks to the kanji but hearing it is my biggest problem. I was watching anime and I've come across all the next words that I couldn't understand without turning on subtitles. I've been learning for about 5 years and I passed N1 (157/180) last year and yet I still wonder... How will I ever hear 古都 (koto) somewhere and immediately understand on the spot that it means "old capital"? Or that 戦死 (senshi) means "dying on a battlefield"? Or that 遺影 (iei) means "portrait of a deceased person"? Or that 名医 (meii) means "renowned doctor"? I just don't think I'll ever reach that level, it's insane. Reaching native japanese level is really one big feat...

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Hi all! TL:DR Does anyone use materials aimed at native Japanese speakers learning English in their Japanese studies ever, especially when trying to learn casual/colloquial expressions? Is there some secret drawback to doing this I should be aware of?

I'm in the boonies of Japan, which means English-language books are rare at stores around me (not a fan of Amazon), and am really desperate to up my like, peer-to-peer conversational ability, so I've bought a few books like ネイティブの真意がわかる 日本人が誤解する英語 to just figure out where to even start in Japanese for phrases resembilng, say, "I feel that" or "I'm under the weather today" or "he's a piece of work."

Thoughts?

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Here : https://www.corocoro.jp

This website features some sample chapters of Coro Coro Comics mangas (many of which are also adaptations of Nintendo IPs, like Kirby, Splatoon, Mario, Animal Crossing, if you are into those).

The website is being run by the publishing company of Coro Coro Comics, Shogakukan, and therefore legal.

They seem to feature up to ten chapters a manga (so at least enough content to keep yourself busy for a while) and they seem to be very recent (maybe regular updates? But my Japanese is kind of bad, so I can’t tell) .

This sentence was in the last episode of The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor. The protagonist is basically mad at a spouse for not listening who often says “僕は妻に跪く。”. The obviously interesting part is “〜だ” behind the conclusive form of a verb. I'm fairly certain I didn't mishear it either as it was in the transcript subtitles too:

• Hadis: 僕は　これでも 君に譲歩しているつもりだ。
• Hadis: 妻にはひざまずくと決めているからな。
• Jill: 何が妻にはひざまずくだ！
• Jill: あのバカ夫！
• Jill: 話す気すらないくせに…。

It's the kind of thing that any grammar textbook would claim to be grammatically incorrect but somehow, the addition of “何が” makes it feel somewhat plausible here as a way to lend further emphasis to the “rhetorical” nature of it as in the “Don't act like you kneel before me!” kind of vibe.

Thoughts? Would you say this is common with this kind of construct? Could something like say “何が愛で育てただ！” with the past form to mean “Don't act like you raised me with love!”? and if so, how essential is the “何が” or “誰が” to allow the “〜だ” here?

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I'm taking the N2 in three weeks, and I plan to read my ass off until then.

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ISBN numbers: 9780844284156 and 9780844284231

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So basically the title. I need to find something in Japaese)

Particularly interested in Sakamoto days

Do you know any places where I can find it, maybe websites?

I've been learning Japanese on and off for a few years, but really I've been studying it for a few months now. Specifically, I've been consistently doing Anki for almost five months. I've got ~400 cards in the Kaishi 1.5k deck, 85 custom vocab cards, and it's going pretty well. I know, of course, that learning Japanese is a long haul, and I'll continue doing Anki, but I'd like to work in some more stuff to make it more dynamic and keep myself interested. I haven't much input, as in podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. and I've done absolutely no output. I'd love some recommendations, general or specific.

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I've completed Genki 1 and 2, taken a few university courses, am level 15 in WaniKani, done over 90 of the Pimsleur courses, and can read basic manga.

However, i feel like I'm stalling here. The next level of WaniKani suddenly seems a lot harder to get to and I still keep encountering words I don't know that aren't found on the usual vocab lists. It feels like there are still all these other words outside of set phrases, and more common vocab that I still need to learn.

I guess I'm just not sure what to do next...do I just keep reading and looking stuff up? Should I keep going on WaniKani? Any advice would be appreciated.

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