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Today’s edition of confusing Japanese things: 風=かぜ 風邪=かぜ 風 means wind (like kamikaze = divine wind) 風邪 means a cold, like the sickness (literally, wind + wicked)

Definitely at least the basics yeah, there's plenty of youtube vids out there. Game Gengo has some good deeper dive grammar videos too

I think I've let ya'll get far enough @Fizz9

Yeah it is mostly just brute force memory. Mnemonics help a lot if you can think of them, and writing them also helps. The book I use for individual kanji is called Remembering the Kanji, and it uses mnemonics to teach you the first thousand kanji or so, then guides you through making your own mnemonics for the other thousand. It's very good, but it teaches you the kanji in the order best for learning all of them over time, not in order of usefulness. For instance, I know the kanji for gall bladder and legitimate wife but not the kanji for pretty. So it's not good for learning some useful kanji fast, only for if you're serious about learning all 2136. ano hon = that book, doko ni = where. The mashita after the verb oku is the conjugation, in this case polite past tense. Regular polite is おきます, and past tense you change the す to した. か is the question particle, and turns it into a question. So "Where did you put that book?"

It kinda depends on your goals. Most people don't need to learn to write kanji, unless you're just a nerd and want to, like me xD I'd recommend not trying to learn individual kanji, but instead just learn individual vocab words, which will contain kanji. That's gonna be much more efficient and make more sense for the average language learner. If you know all the 2136 common use kanji and their meanings, it can def make learning vocab easier, since a lot of words' kanji make logical sense. For instance, 誕生日 is birthday. 誕=birth, 生= life, and 日=day. If you know those three, then it's super easy to remember how to read 誕生日 whenever you see it again. But learning those 2136 kanji is a butt ton of work on the front end, which probably isn't worth it if you don't care about being able to hand-write the language. Also @Through The Living Grub

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Almost to 50! @Fizz9

15 centimeters should be the correct height. Could you find me the exact places in book 2 where it says 25? I only see 15 in Starsight. The reference in Cytonic is referring to Hesho specifically as being 25 cm, which may just be that he's considerably taller than the average kitsen. (And it's Spensa's estimation, not necessarily his exact height) If it is an error, editors and betas are still human, and there's a lot of such things to look for in each book, so stuff will always manage to slip between the cracks.

Alr that’s far enough I think

4.29 is plenty, as nice as a 4.5 is xD And in general, your involvement/leadership/volunteering can do a lot more for you than a few points of a GPA. And standardized test scores are very handy xD At least for college scholarships and the like

Believe it or not, the world won't explode if you have below a 4.0 xD I 100% understand the stress tho, I might lose my 4.0 this monday after my Ochem II final But if you get a few B's, you're still far above the average student

Aww thanks this is true xD

Nice! If you ever want to nerd out about Japanese learning/practicing, I’m always happy to yap in pms xD And yep that’s what I said! I’ve done two semesters of classes, and then a month studying in Japan, and then self study for the past year

Sure sure

Now you fall united

True that

そうだ！二年間ぐらいに勉強してるよ。 Are you Japanese, or just speak it? (Or using Google Translate :O) @Fizz9

日本語で話せるの？いいね！ @Fizz9

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I knew I felt a disturbance in the force (all caps also alerts me) @Fizz9

Not anymore @Fizz9

Now @Fizz9

Bold of you to assume there's any logic to my intervention beyond my own whims @Fizz9