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I got a login. It’s alpha I think, though. Never really pay any attention to it. =P
Welcome! What other language do you know?
Russian? =)
I used TextFugu as an additional research when studying at uni, and we used Nakama as the text book. It worked pretty well for me, and we coincidentally tended to be covering roughly the same things at roughly the same times.
I also bought Japanese for Busy People, and the Dictionaries of Japanese Grammar.
Welcome! Tiny warning: be careful when using IMEs, cause it’s こんにちは =)
“Stem” is an English grammar term – it refers to the bit of the word which remains the same when you conjugate. For example, in the conjugation tall -> taller -> tallest, “tall” is the stem.
It’s not exactly the same in Japanese, as the vowel sound at the end of the stem can change between conjugations, but typically when people say “stem” in reference to Japanese verbs, they’re referring to the ます-stem (i.e. the ます-form of the verb with the ます chopped off).
Only one I know of is the 4500 sentences pack on Tofugu, but it costs money, and it’s not an Anki deck.
http://store.tofugu.com/shop/4500-japanese-sentences
It could easily be something else, though. I never paid much attention to the Anki decks. =P
Edit: Google-sensei turned up this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/2v1exk/8547_japanese_sentences_from_the_%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E6%96%87%E6%B3%95%E8%BE%9E%E5%85%B8/
Looks like it’s the example sentences from the Dictionaries of Japanese Grammar reassembled into an Anki deck. Personally, I think you should buy the books. They’re most useful.
Yeah, it’s just the expectation. “Suppose” in the sense of “make a supposition”. The Jisho definitions are the same (“must be” meaning “I’d be perplexed if it were not” rather than “is required to be”).
That’s English’s fault pretty much.
Practice, practice, practice. =)
I have to admit, I don’t know precisely what you’re trying to read – maybe you’re just getting stuck on kanji, in which case, working at kanji would help. Try to understand the shape of the sentence – as in, what function each word is playing and where the clauses go. Even if you can’t read all the words, understanding the structure should help things to flow more easily. I guess.
Think of it as に = “to” in English. に has meanings other than “to”, so don’t rely on that translation too heavily, but it works well enough in… possibly the majority of cases.
When used with movement verbs, を marks the route (i.e. “through”).
公園に歩く = walk to the park
公園を歩く = walk through the parkYou tend to use on’yomi when you’ve got multiple kanji stuck together forming one word. For example… um… 山水 (さんすい). There’s about a thousand and one exceptions, but believe me when I say you’ll get a feel for it over time.
Nope, Koichi’s got it exactly right here – remember that 前 also means “forward” and 後 also means “backward”. They’re words in their own right, not abbreviations.
Yeah, that’s an issue I had when learning as well, and still have on occasion. A lot of words have a handful of synonyms, but only one of them is typically used in day-to-day conversation, and this is rarely noted in dictionaries or textbooks…
For “at the moment”, 昨今 is also used, but personally, things like 最近 and この頃 and 近頃 are more natural.
昨今 is something like “nowadays”
最近 is “most recently”, “these days”
この頃 is “recently”
近頃 is “lately”, “recently”Actually, “nowadays” seems to come up as a possible translation for all of them. =P
Welcome!
Kinda envious of you. =P Which bit of Tokyo? You studying at a university, or something? Do you get the chance for any sightseeing? =)
つ is itself a counter word in its own right – it’s the generic “stuff” counter word used with the native Japanese numbers, which is why it uses kun’yomi. It’s pretty much only used to count as far as ten things – it does go past ten, but I don’t think it’s regularly used in modern Japanese, and I can’t remember the readings anyway. The Chinese-origin equivalent is 個, read as こ – that uses on’yomi numbers.
一日 つい・たち / いちにち
日 makes for some pretty freaky readings in general. Don’t fret too much over it. =)
