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An intermediate-level learner with an unhealthy fascination with kanji.
Strong dislike for all "One true way to learn Japanese" pronouncements.
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Oct 5 |
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寝る vs. 眠る, what's the real difference? I think that's supposed to be 眠る. |
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Sep 21 |
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Looking for Japanese common speech phrases list How are the nii.ac sources not exactly what you're looking for? |
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Sep 20 |
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most common everyday phrases in japanese Please clarify your question. I suspect most of the people who voted to close this question did so under the impression that you were a new student looking for an 'efficient' study method. Searching for a technical speech corpus can certainly be considered within the bounds of the site. |
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Sep 20 |
answered | most common everyday phrases in japanese |
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Sep 20 |
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most common everyday phrases in japanesesou desu ne/ka <-- your list. In all seriousness though, we try to avoid questions that can't actually have an answer. Good sources for this sort of material would be any basic japanese textbook. |
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Sep 12 |
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Appropiate anime or media to learn japanese added 70 characters in body |
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Sep 12 |
answered | Appropiate anime or media to learn japanese |
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Sep 12 |
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アニメと漫画で日本語を勉強することについて (On learning Japanese from anime/manga) Given the grammatical quality of the spam I get in English, I don't think I want to trust learning from it in Japanese. |
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Sep 12 |
awarded | Organizer |
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Sep 12 |
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Appropiate anime or media to learn japanese edited tags |
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Sep 12 |
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Is it unusual to have the ga particle with a negative verb? Just to note, ga with iru/aru is not necessarily exhaustive (although it can be). |
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Sep 11 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Sep 11 |
awarded | Disciplined |
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Sep 8 |
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What is the difference between 完了 and 終了 A few have hinted at it, but no one has clearly distinguished 完成 from these two either. How does it differ? |
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Sep 1 |
answered | What are the advantages/disadvantages of writing in romaji instead of kanji, hiragana, and so on? |
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Sep 1 |
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What are the advantages/disadvantages of writing in romaji instead of kanji, hiragana, and so on? This would be a disadvantage of particular romaji systems (notably Hepburn), not necessarily of a better system like kunrei. |
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Aug 31 |
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Does [V-stem]に行く works for verbs whose stems are not stand-alone words by themselves? 食べにいく is rather common. I'm pretty sure was the example used in my introductory text. |
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Aug 31 |
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The reality of answering いいえ to a negative question The question says that. The answer explains why, even though it's potentially ambiguous, there is a strong bias in the language towards "yes" affirming the idea, and "no" contradicting it. I don't think it's a stretch to say that answering "Don't you have a car?" with "Yes" or "No" would be interpreted as "Yes, I have a car" and "No, I don't have a car" respectively. If you intend the opposite meaning, the answer becomes more forceful (as it contradicts the assumption underlying the question. Note that the assumption is the opposite of the negation), and therefore requires the clarification. |
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Aug 30 |
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The reality of answering いいえ to a negative question @DaveMG: I guess I'm not sure why you feel that negative questions in English work differently than described. Are you perhaps confusing the constructions "Don't you have a car?"(negative question) with "You don't have a car?" (statement with a questioning intonation?). It can be confused in a few cases, particularly when talking with pedantic people, but almost always "Yes" is the affirmative response. See [english.stackexchange.com/questions/28581/… for what is probably the historical reason for this. |
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Aug 30 |
awarded | Enlightened |
