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DJT is a language learning thread for those studying the Japanese language.
Japanese speakers learning English are welcome, too.

Read the guide linked below before asking how to learn Japanese:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220326112058/https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/learn/guide.html

Archive of older threads: https://desuarchive.org/int/search/subject/Daily%20Japanese%20Thread/

Translation requests, insults, politics, reddit posts, lust, learning method / eceleb discussions: >>>/jp/djt

Previous Thread: >>204383695
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>DeadJT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7lk4uyeXU
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>>204425290
https://youtu.be/kERPPPIZOyk?si=wuM0908W1i292ZWp&t=517
> 2009 january
> he already knew it
what a brilliant person
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あーあ
もうめちゃくちゃだよ
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破茶滅茶滅茶苦茶しっちゃかめっちゃか(゜∀。)ワヒャヒャヒャヒャヒャヒ
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日本には最近本当にインド人が多いですか
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https://taximanli.github.io/kotobade-asobou/
wordle but epic
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>>204425290
Is the core 2k/6k anki deck basically just wanikani?
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Can anyone recommend good ways to practice speaking Japanese with others and getting practice in? I have considered iTalki.
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お昼休憩、在宅勤務いいっすね
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>>204431811
Core 2k/6k from what I understand is a frequency deck based on newspapers but I could be wrong
From what I understand wanikani is a method for learning Kanji but core 2k/6k is about vocabularly
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>>204433253
>From what I understand wanikani is a method for learning Kanji but core 2k/6k is about vocabularly
If that IS the case, then I am glad I went with core 2k/6k. I just wanna learn many many word so can gook talk wiht jap jap.
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お金のあまりない夫婦
Could someone help explain this sentence?
Is it
Money of those couples which don't have much of it
I'm confused by の
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>>204434157
a couple who don't have much money
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please advice.
what is the meaning of this symbol?
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>>204434381
Yeah I know what it means I just don't get why it means what it means
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>>204434157
の = が
When attributive (adjectival) clause is modifying noun,
(お金があまり無い) 夫婦
Then both が and の are subject markers, they are interchangeable

>>204434443
It is post office symbol, it has no linguistic value
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>>204434580
Awesome I had no idea, thanks
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shit fuck
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What language was Edo period literature written in?
Is it safe to say that all pre-Meiji literature was in a form more similar to Classical Japanese than modern Japanese?
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>>204436121
江戸初期100年

江戸中期100年

江戸後期100年

全部を語るには長すぎる
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNeFxLVSrA
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>>204436184
Well i'm interested in Chikamatsu's plays and Kanadehon Chūshingura
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>>204436828
it's all on a continuum that's hard to break into clean parts

opening of 冥途の飛脚:

みをづくし 難波に咲くや この花の、
里は三筋に 町の名も、
佐渡と越後の 合の手を
通ふ千鳥の 淡路町、
亀屋の世継 忠兵衛

it's written in a poetic meter where you need to be cognizant of the 5-7 rhythm used in 和歌
the grammar is not particularly classical at first glance but also different from the modern
larger problem is proper nouns and vocabulary, which is different between different periods and needs to be specially looked up and understood in many cases

in dialogue sections you see things like:
「誰そ頼もふ忠兵衛宿にゐやるか」と
「ヤアこれは/\甚内さま、忠兵衛は留守なればお下し物の御用ならば、私に仰せ聞けられませ、お茶持ておじや」と
classical helps understand much of the grammar but also not all
things like 持ておじや are casual expressions from the period you will have trouble finding in dictionaries and have to absorb through translation or some other means

and also readings of parts indicating they were written in 候文 like:
『来月二日出の三度に金子三百両差上せ申すべく候ふ、九日十日両日の中その地亀屋忠兵衛方より、右三百両受取り、内々申し置き候ふ事ども埒明け申さるべく候ふ、則ち飛脚の受取証文この度上せ候ふ間、金子受取り次第この証文忠兵衛に渡し申さるべく候』
which is another kind of advanced knowledge

opening of 心中天網島 again in poetic meter:
女郎が情の 底深き、
これかや恋の 大海を、
かへもほされぬ 蜆川、
思ひ/\の 思ひ歌。
This grammar is more clearly classical than other play

dialogue is again more period-like
アヽコレ伊丹々々といふて下さんすな。それで痛み入るわいな。

you can't just start with Edo for any of this, there is no such
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>>204437366
Alright thanks for the reality check
>things like 持ておじや are casual expressions from the period you will have trouble finding in dictionaries and have to absorb through translation or some other means
Are there annotated editions available? Or do most people use modernised texts?
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>>204439148
I just mean that finding the information will be more difficult than copy pasting into a dictionary
持ておじや here is 持っておじゃ which is 持っておいで but it uses an old orthography that disguises it
if you google "おじや" you're only going to find things about a rice soup おじや 雑炊 and be lost
first you have to understand the historical orthography, then you can find things about おぢやる, おいである, like
https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%8A%E3%81%98%E3%82%83%E3%82%8B/
which is where it comes from

but if you're having trouble even starting to do something like this, can't get your knife to catch and start cutting at all, you might have to start by looking for 現代語訳 of the text you're looking at and see how other people translate the 原文 into modern japanese

for example, this guy has a blog where he posts translations of a lot of old texts, and he is bretty good (I have used him to help check my interpretations of 万葉集 poems in the past many times)
https://sanukiya.exblog.jp/25723215/
there, you can find that he translates the line as
>お茶をお持ちしなさい。
which could help you draw the link between おじや/おじゃ and おいで or some other kind of honorific request verb

but in all cases it requires prior knowledge

you can't go in completely bind
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oof, 私は cringe
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These are the end times でございます
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Is this supposed to mean something like "Let's listen to this song, shall we?"
I don't quite grasp the meaning of でも here.
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>>204442985
>Let's listen to this song, shall we?
Let's listen to *some music, shall we?
>I don't quite grasp the meaning of でも here.
xxでも is a common way to ask things and make suggestions, think of it like "some music", "something like music".
https://jplang.tufs.ac.jp/tw/do/28/28-1A-17.html
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>>204443499
I see. Thanks!
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過激思想
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私は creepy & weird なので、
人には中々好かれぬ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-emswoeKs
私も。
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これは私の 運命だから
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>>204434443
When the postal system was established in Japan during the Meiji era (1868-1912), the ministry that operated it was "逓信省(ていしんしょう)". So
>ていしん->て->テ
became the symbol of the postal service.
The word 逓信 is rarely used today.
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私が常に精神遅滞なのは嫌ね
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寝れないわー
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j1T0Dpi0to
seggs
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>>204449315
me too
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how should i live...
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>>204453105
In abstinence
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>爨
What an ugly kanji
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>>204453105
>Gura
Preferably with better taste.
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>>204453105
shojomanko wo toppa shite oku!
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https://streamable.com/cswlhp
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not yet
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>>204455604
Source of scene?
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>ド٣
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relax
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Sugoi
Arigatou
Gomenasai
Subaru
I'm learning japanese, baby steps, the Emperor will give me my anime wife any day.
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楽しそうにしてんなあこのクソハゲロリコン爺
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>>204431811
Absolutely not. There is some overlap in the overall vocabulary but wanikani has way more uncommon words overall.
Wanikanis aim is to teach you 音読み and 訓読み of Kanji. It uses vocabulary to reinforce those readings.
Core Decks want to teach you common vocabulary words. It's aim is for you to memorize vocabulary that you will encounter often faster.
They're completely different goals.

Let me tell you from experience that doing something like Wanikani will yield very little tangible progress on actually understanding Japanese for most people. That is not to say there is no benefit from Wanikani or generally a Heisig method. They can really make Kanji stick for you. The question is how beneficial that is to you early on.
My take is that this is the wrong thing to focus on for most learners. There is a tangible risk to lose momentum within the first 2 years of learning due to not making enough progress with understanding actual Japanese, which will make most of their progress in something like Wanikani borderline useless.
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彼奴ら
キャッツら
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>>204463964
CATS! Σ:3
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>>204463964
ヅラじゃない、キャッツらだ?
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Did people historically create new words based on kanji reading mistakes?
Like you have a kanji that has 2 different readings but over time people start using one reading in place of the other reading in certain words and suddenly people have invented a new word, maybe a verb or a noun
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>>204464044
Yes
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/百姓読み
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peasant reading?! ( ・ิω・ิ)
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俺は華族だからそんなの分からんな
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>>204464152
華族のよう近親相姦に爛れたシスコンなんですね〜

>>204464112
I will make you my peasant :3
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>>204464248
yes ma'am (`・ω・´)ゞ
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ギクッ
妹道を嗜んでいるのは何故バレた
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わし読心術家なのじゃ

>>204464318
Now plant your seed in my bed (「・ω・)「ガオー
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYcPrsoNd28

焼きそうな、君のMYSTIC EYES
無邪気な、笑顔でBREAKING DOWN
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お早うで御座る
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The Razor Sword from Majora's Mask is in the same shape as the small knife radical 刂.
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>>204464044
新しい = あらたしい -> あたらしい
(this is why 新た is read as あらた)
秋葉原 = あきばはら -> あきはばら
山茶花(picrel) = さんざか -> さざんか
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>>204464044
I found a list for such words.
(https://kousei.clubhttps://kousei.club/校正泣かせ慣用読みと誤用の定着/)
Form left to right, "Kanji", "how it should be read", and "how it is usually read". For many of these, no one (including even dictionaries) read it as it should be. I feel like for 1 依存, 7 惨敗, 10
貼付 and 11 重複, people use both readings.
In other words a wrong reading has taken place of the correct one.
1 依存 いそん いぞん
2 堪能 かんのう たんのう
3 寄贈 きそう きぞう
4 矜持 きょうじ きんじ
5 攪拌 こうはん かくはん
6 攪乱 こうらん かくらん
7 惨敗 さんぱい ざんぱい
8 輸出 しゅしゅつ ゆしゅつ
9 消耗 しょうこう しょうもう
10 貼付 ちょうふ てんぷ
11 重複 ちょうふく じゅうふく
12 捏造 でつぞう ねつぞう
13 貪欲 たんよく どんよく
14 端緒 たんしょ たんちょ
15 出納 しゅつのう すいとう
16 情緒 じょうしょ じょうちょ
17 憧憬 しょうけい どうけい
18 漏洩 ろうせつ ろうえい

(*picrel is a panel of a software company's ad.)
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Butt trumpets を blowing
何故だ 何故だ
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>>204466922
FWIW but contrary to this list and dictionaries' description, I have never heard 矜持(=pride) read as きんじ.
>矜持はきょうじでしょ??
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慣用音 is a phenomenon where the correct Chinese reading becomes corrupted by some means and this corrupted reading becomes entrenched as the correct reading by accustomation

Extremely common example of 慣用音 is 立, りつ as in 起立,
Which should properly be 立, りゅう as in 建立

An easy way to uncover 慣用音 is through Chinese poetry, where the incorrect reading will break the rhyme scheme

>軍氣橫大荒 戰酣日將入
Military air spreads across the waste - battle reaches heated pitch as sun is soon to set
>長風金鼓動 白霧鐵衣濕
Long wind and golden drums both sound, as white dew and iron armor both grow moist
>四起愁邊聲 南轅時佇立
On all sides arise sad sounds of the frontier - turning carriage south, at times one comes to a stop
>斷蓬孤自轉 寒雁飛相及
Dying grasses solitary turn about, and late-year geese fly after one another

We see here that 湿, しつ and 立, りつ were originally meant to both rhyme with 入, にゅう and 及, きゅう
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sorry me ESL me no good English
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I can learn Japanese but I will never be charismatic
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落ちこぼれの淵叢
日本語学習
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私は興奮している。
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>>204470308
あなたは興奮した。*保存*
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しゅきぃ〜(ㆁωㆁ*)
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おチンポだいしゅき
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>>204472983
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如人救頭燃 速疾求滅處
彼人亦如是 速詣於如來
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>>204470935
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私は disgusting human who needs to die にございます
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kn1nFRDCF8
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hage
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確かに humans を killing
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俺もう駄目かも知んねえ
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人が死ぬぞ
確かに死ぬ
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もっと早くしてくれませんか?
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>>204484641
中々酷いwww。
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いやいや
奴のじゃなくて、俺の
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>>204484780
あっ、そうですか?
落ち込むね。
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Any of you guys planning on taking the JLPT in December? What level? How long do you have to drive to get there? Are you confident about it?
I plan to take N2. I think I'll at least be able to pass, but whether I get a good score or not I'm not sure. I'm lucky that I live in the Bay Area and they're conducting a JLPT test at SFSU. So, I hardly have to go anywhere. I think for lots of people if they want to take the test they're forced to go out of state.
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>>204487027
ok mike suzuki, good luck
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>>204488516
>mike suzuki
Does that mean if I pass this test I become honorary Japanese?
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>>204488570
>trade option 1: obtain woman, give up ramen, curry, anime, and philosophy
>trade option 2: no woman, possess ramen, curry, anime, and philosophy
man, this sure is a hard choice
whichever one will i pick
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自分の顔を撃ち抜く
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SSD死にかけてるかな
買ったばかりなのによ
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あーなるほどね
Windowsという名のゴミがどうも勝手に俺のパソコンを漁ったりファイルを削除したり俺の権限を奪ったりしてたんだね
いつもの事
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>>204487027
I'm planning to take N1 next month
>Are you confident about it
dunno. i've done fuck all to prepare. been busy playing mmorpg for the past month or so.
でもなんとかなる
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bumpsps
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just wild beat communication雨に打たれながら
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>>204496529
色褪せない 熱い想い 身体中で伝えたいよ tonight (ㆁωㆁ*)
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bumpsps
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>>204487027
>>204494449
Good luck with your exams!
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>>204487027
I am taking N1.I dont feel i'm N1 level yet but passing conditions are laughably low (100/180) so i can probably pass.
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ChatGPT is surprisingly helpful
I asked it to help me with '夜になってしまった' and it knew the answer
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>>204493078
なんでリア充のようにW10/11使うの? LinuxやW7でええやん
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>>204498792
Oh wait
Is this just nonsense?
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>>204498870
Its like half correct here. どう means how, in what way and する is to do. した is past conjugation of する.
Sometimes LLMs just hallucinate and make up stuff, you can see that sometimes when you ask them the same question again and the answer is different.
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>>204498870
>>204499089
Actually, this answer is perfectly useful to know what "どうした" means, but not knowing that "どう" and "した/する" are separable (or memorizing that "どうした" is an inseparable set phrase by mistake) might lead to confusion later with phrases like "どうですか" or "そうするね".
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>>204498611
Thank you.
>>204494449
Unless you feel like you've really got it down, feels like a waste of money for the test and traveling expenses all to not prepare for it.
>>204498749
>passing conditions are laughably low (100/180)
I've noticed this too. Is it true that you only need to get like half of them right to pass the N2?
I'm hoping I can pass the N1 next year or maybe the year after that. Only goes on once a year here, so I got to wait an entire year.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42W8bxW14sU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZs1-CiqUj4
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How about I fucking kill you motherfucker, old style
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bumpsps
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bloody chimpos
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>>204498611
thanks
>>204499417
it's not like i'm completely unprepared though. i tried the last year's test and i got around 120 out of 180.
>traveling expenses
it's 15 minutes walking from my home
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全ての日本人は僕の友だちだよ~! :)
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>>204502931
しくしく。私は恋人未満ね(๑´•.̫ • `๑)
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Sorry to ask a beginner-level question, but how do you guys say 自宅からそこまで自転車で10分です in English?
Just so you know, it means you need to cycle 10 minutes to get there from your home.

>it's a 10-minute bike ride to get there from my home.
is what came to mind first, but I'm not sure whether it's correct or not.
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>>204504891
>it's a 10-minute bike ride to get there from my home.
This is completely fine to be honest. Its a little stuff though.
If it were me, i'd just say:
"its a ten minute bike-ride from where i live"
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>>204504891
I don't see anything wrong with your phrase, neither syntax nor vocabulary.
>It's a 10-minute ride from my home to that place
>That place is 10 minutes away from my home by bike
(I say the latter a lot possibly owing to interference of スペイン語)
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>>204505139
>stuff
Stiff*
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>>204505139
>>204505153
I see, thank you for your answers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGeOnVfgP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD2TZYY0TNY
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>>204425290
nice pic
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AI gave me a hilarious answer when I looked up what an emoji stands for (pic related).
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>>204504891
I would say: From my house, it is 10-minutes by bike.
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>>204509190
(ノ∀`)アチャー
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQKsMyeO9-s
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>>204510927
今はカツサンドが外国人観光客に人気なのよ
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>>204511622
へー
たまにめちゃうまいカツサンドあるよね
個人的にマスタードが効いてるのが好き
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もみぢばの ふりかくしてし 我宿に
路もまどはず 冬はきにけり
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ytKaZ6uo0



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