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Particles, conjugations and endings for verbs and adjectives, and general sentence structure.
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The differences between two or more words or phrases and how to select the best one for a given situation.
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Any question that does not deal specifically with grammar or pronunciation. Includes questions about prefixes, suffixes, compound words, loanwords, dialectal differences, pragmatic usage, etc. In othe…
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How to use certain words, phrases, particles, endings, constructions, and their variants.
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Questions asking for words or phrases to be translated.
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The meaning of words or phrases within certain contexts, especially when it does not seem to match the standard definition.
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Subtle differences between two seemingly interchangeable expressions.
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漢字: Chinese characters as used in Japanese writing as opposed to the two kana syllabaries and romaji Latin letters.
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The short syntactic words or affixes in Japanese that are used to modify words or entire sentences.
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That class of words which describe events and states and can be inflected or conjugated to indicate relative time, as well as many other nuances.
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The study of the origin of words and the historical development of their meanings.
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Single words or set phrases that must be learned in order to communicate.
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The inflections of verbs. How the endings of verbs change to reflect grammatical factors such as tense and aspect.
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How words and characters in Japanese sound when spoken aloud.
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Phrases with fixed words used as a single unit, many of which are idioms.
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Topics related to differences in meaning between two words.
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From social politeness ("please", "thank you", etc) to the technical Japanese grammatical concepts of honorifics and respectful and humble forms known as "keigo".
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The reading of a kanji character or a word written in kanji characters refers to how it is “read” in terms of kana characters.
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The precise meanings of Japanese words or phrases.
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A set phrase used commonly in the Japanese language
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Words, expressions, etc considered very informal, usually used mostly by in-groups, such as young people, and easily affected by trends and fashions.
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Two or more words which share a meaning in at least one of the senses of each.
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short for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test and is a standardized test used to measure skill in the Japanese language.
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The origins and changes over time of the features and characteristics of Japanese in its spoken and written forms.
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Where the linguistic aspects of Japanese culture and the cultural aspects of the Japanese language overlap.
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Improving your proficiency in the Japanese language.
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The particle "に" (ni) represents motion towards something (English "to") and location (English "at" and "in"). Dative, locative and temporal case particle.
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Words brought into Japanese from languages other than Chinese.
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Words, forms and expressions used only in non-formal spoken language.
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Rules governing construction of phrases and sentences in a language.
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The 「て」(te) form of an adjective or verb has no meaning on its own (although it may be implied), but is used to connect the verb to the words that follow it in some conjugations.
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The various spoken and written forms of words and characters covering digits, numbers, numerals, including derived forms such as ordinals.
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a standardized way of writing a language.
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Japanese doesn't technically have adjectives, but special types of nouns and verbs called na-adjectives and i-adjectives respectively have the same function.
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Questions about books, websites, and other resources about the Japanese language.
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Questions concerned with the fact that many kanji (漢字) may share a reading or pronunciation.
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