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Aug 20	awarded	Talkative
Aug 17	accepted	What's with this “On reading”/“Kun reading” thing? Is it important to learn both as a beginner?
Aug 17	comment	Can a Japanese person understand something written in traditional Chinese I thought 的 meant "bull's eye" or something to that effect.
Aug 11	comment	Why is there a “tsu” in Nippon (にっぽん)? I'm glad to hear someone here approaches questions the way I do when I'm answering on other SE sites.
Jul 24	comment	Why is there a “tsu” in Nippon (にっぽん)? @sawa I'm working with what I have. None of the sites I've been using mentioned this in their pronunciation section, or anywhere "in their first few pages."
Jul 24	comment	Why is there a “tsu” in Nippon (にっぽん)? Having first learned the hiragana, I was now trying to get to a basic level of understanding by walking through these two sites: learn-japanese.info/indexg.html and freejapaneselessons.com
Jul 24	comment	Why is there a “tsu” in Nippon (にっぽん)? @Chris I did not know what to call the little tsu, so I did not know how to search for it.
Jul 24	accepted	Why are the katakana important to learn?
Jul 24	accepted	Is it standard practice, or acceptable, to connect strokes in certain characters of hiragana?
Jul 24	asked	Why is there a “tsu” in Nippon (にっぽん)?
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? That was extremely informative.
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? Agreed on that last point, I do know that. Just trying to fill in the gaps on other sites. Case in point, many sites give a perfunctory explanation of okurigana, then just start using them full-out without further ado, hence I'm here, and this is after reading and re-reading the wikipedia article on the subject.
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? Well now that's fantastic! Thanks. I'll look it over thoroughly.
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? And for the record, Flaw did a great job answering.
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? Each "Learn Japanese" site that I've found takes a slightly different approach and seems to leave large gaps in understanding, and I'm trying to piece things together by asking questions here. As I better my understanding, my questions will be better informed and more precise, and this spate of initial questions will subside. However, in the meantime, it would be great if the Japanese.SE community could tell me on each occasion what's wrong with my questions so as to help me get there sooner, rather than one huge 4-up-voted comment to say that As Usual I Asked A Bad Question.
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? Alright. I am very new to this. As I understand things now, this question seemed very specific to me: Are there patterns in okurigana in terms of how they change the meaning of kanji? It's very possible and even likely that I strongly misunderstood the purpose of okurigana. If my question was in fact terrifically inaccurate/problematic on multiple levels, then I apologize. The problem is that I'm trying to learn from scratch through the internet, and it's difficult to figure out the path to take on your own without any instructors/class environment, particularly with my first Eastern language.
Jul 23	accepted	How to know what Okurigana signify?
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? Wow. Wowwww. Way to go, Flaw, hell of an edit. So one question: all those inflection okurigana-- they can be used to create the same inflections with every verb?
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? So are there many such so-to-speak "stock okurigana," those which can be pulled out and used with a variety of words to create the same change in meaning?
Jul 23	comment	How to know what Okurigana signify? Ah, so there are at least some patterns! But surely if normal nouns, like "waterfall," for example, could have okurigana, they must mean something different every time?