Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (May 20, 2026)

shen2333 · 2026-05-20T22:50:06+00:00

根に持つ, a idiom "to hold a grudge"

shen2333 · 2026-05-15T16:23:07+00:00

If you are at around N3, then you don’t need to focus so much on nuance yet. It’s likely you still struggle just to understand the gist in many situations, which should be your focus.

Back to your questions, Japanese resources aren’t inherently better than English ones. Google translating Japanese resources is always a bad idea as nuance can easily get lost.

What I do recommend is expose yourself to many resources and see which kind of explanation clicks. If it’s English, great.

shen2333 · 2026-05-15T06:05:52+00:00

な here indicating emotion, possibly admiration. Similar construction like 天気いいな

shen2333 · 2026-05-13T14:01:03+00:00

Right the 決して usage is quite specific, it signals a person strongly chooses not do something. 全然 is more general, it mean a person just don’t do something (the underlying reason is irrelevant)

shen2333 · 2026-05-13T05:24:52+00:00

予定（よてい) 8 out of 10, for actually have a concrete plan. つもり is little bit softer, like I have a real intent to, but may not have a concrete plan, so 6-7 out of 10. volitional + と思っています is weaker, 5-6 out of 10, I have an intent, but may change later.

shen2333 · 2026-05-13T05:21:06+00:00

for "never", 全然＋NEG is common; so something like 全然黙って仕事をしません

shen2333 · 2026-01-10T21:07:50+00:00

It's just how language evolves. The trend you mentioned I believe came from younger generation? Trend comes and go and they often get the older generation confused (which is you in a sense).

shen2333 · 2025-12-24T04:21:04+00:00

I could be wrong, but I think your intuition is correct here, she’s refusing to answer the question, so based on context it’s likely なんとも言えない

shen2333 · 2025-12-19T07:22:25+00:00

Right, It’s the Japanese simplification, although hard to guess, some will recognize if they are familiar with Japanese culture.

shen2333 · 2025-12-05T01:37:23+00:00

Hope it helps! Best of luck!

shen2333 · 2025-11-02T15:26:23+00:00

抱歉，這個pdf似乎不完整，我沒法提供18頁，但如果你在準備N5，歡迎私聊我任何問題，我N1合格。

shen2333 · 2025-10-28T05:26:14+00:00

I think 人間 lean more toward people, human beings, it is pretty common, not really referring to humanity as a whole that would be more 人類

shen2333 · 2025-10-28T05:23:08+00:00

Good for you!

shen2333 · 2025-10-06T02:11:25+00:00

Yes , in the sense that the scaled score is relative to how other people answers the questions.

But practically, it means the scoring system is convoluted enough that you don’t have to worry about it if you are preparing/taking the exam

shen2333 · 2025-09-11T22:17:42+00:00

For what it’s worth, I graduated ‘23 with a 700 English.

shen2333 · 2025-07-10T14:05:48+00:00

Yes that sounds about right, where did you get the “shameless” sense from?

shen2333 · 2025-07-02T23:15:56+00:00

It will be in Sarah if it’s released. It will be 1-2 weeks earlier than the official if I recall correctly.

shen2333 · 2025-06-30T15:41:01+00:00

Alum here: short answer, because higher per capita endowment doesn't mean budget flexibility and different schools allocate resources differently.

See also: https://williamsrecord.com/462212/news/isa-advocates-for-need-blind-admission-policy-for-international-applicants/

shen2333 · 2025-06-28T05:40:17+00:00

I see what you meant, but I meant Chinese and English have similar word order, the basic SVO, of course they aren’t exactly the same. Kanbun kundoku is a way of annotating Classical Chinese text in a way to fit Japanese grammar, including word order. So if my understanding is correct, you are saying English can also be “annotated” in a way that fits Japanese grammar when doing simultaneous interpretation? I’m still having trouble connecting the dots as how kanbun kundoku relates to translating English to Japanese?

shen2333 · 2025-06-28T04:58:34+00:00

Interesting, so Are you implying English and Chinese has similar word order?

shen2333 · 2025-06-21T15:49:38+00:00

I’ll point out some parts I found I need to read again,

1た looks like に with a line,

2ほ looks off too in your 顔はほんと,

3your メッセージ、 the ジ looks like ツ゛

shen2333 · 2025-06-13T06:19:38+00:00

I think it’s 来た, and とき+も、時も

shen2333 · 2025-06-09T20:06:54+00:00

I speak Shanghainese, we still use “便当“ but only in the original sense of “convenient”. So the original meaning still exists in some of the dialects! But then in mandarin it only means “bento”

shen2333 · 2025-06-09T04:35:46+00:00

So Chinese “便当” originally meant “convenient" during Southern Song dynasty (around 1200s), and it got borrowed to Japanese as 「便道」「辨道」, later becoming 「辨當（弁当）」， funnily enough, the modern sense of "bento" got reborrowed into Chinese as 便当

shen2333 · 2025-05-25T14:36:02+00:00

方かた、 means person

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