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日本語学習. Improving your proficiency in the Japanese language.

Questions regarding improving one's proficiency in the Japanese language.

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Why do children call themselves by their name?

Why is that young children call themselves by their first name when referring to themselves? This question is similar to Speaking in the third person; however, young children do not understand the connotations of speaking in the third person. My…
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Is it easier to learn Chinese after learning Japanese or vice versa?

For those who speak both Chinese and Japanese, would first learning Chinese make it easier to learn Japanese? I know that Japanese Kanji are derived from Chinese characters.
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How to express "Again?"

How would one state "Again?" like an expression of surprise? Do we still use また?
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How long would it take on average to learn Japanese

i know a small bit of Japanese from back in high school but stopped when it was never made clear that Japanese went for 2 semesters instead of 1 and by the time they told me about it (even though i was the first to submit my class registration…
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Best Japanese language learning system?

I have a friend who speaks Japanese and I would like to learn the language with no prior experience. What commercial teaching approach would you consider the best? Pimsleur, Phonics, or something else?
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-んだ casual form

I learned that the short form for な-adjs and nouns is だ, but I also learned that usually you wouldn't end a sentence with だ (usually it is dropped). So when it comes to a sentence that ends with -んだ, would you drop the だ here too? e.g.…
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この近くにレストランはありますか - Why Chikaku and why koko(DE)?

I've been trying to study japanese in small increments (an hour a day) for around 2-3 weeks now. I have a 2 questions regarding this sentence. From what I learned so far, DE is used instead of NI when referring to a location where a specific action…
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Fun ways to learn japanese

What are your favorite fun ways to learn Japanese? (At any level)
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Can Sempai be used to address a student of the same year/age

I've been working on a script for a Visual Novel, in it one of the heroine's Sakura address's the main hero Talavaliau (Tala for short) as Sempai because she has a crush on him and can't bring herself to actually call him by his name even with…
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Learning japanese and confused on pronunciation of a word

So duolingo is what I'm using to help memorize and learn hiragana at the moment. However, when the ask me to write alcohol, sake, sometimes they say it as osake, is this still right or should I just pronounce it as sake?
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Na adjectivs or i adjectives

I know (i) adjectives end ai-ii-ui-oi I adjectives are close cousins to verbs and na adjectives are nouns and my question きらい is na adjective or i adjective I think i adjective because end ai please answer my question
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マリーと日本語を勉強 / Studying with Marie. Is this right?

マリーと日本語を勉強 or マリーと一緒に日本語を勉強する ? I just started learning kanji, so i'm not sure which one would be the correct way to say this. I'm trying to write "Studying with Marie"
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Why is konichiwa spelled as こんにちは

こにちは also reads as konichiwa Why the extra ん
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a strategy to learn Japanese

I want to start learning Japanese but i'm lost i don't know from where to begin, is there anybody knows a good strategy to use?
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Using -ndesu correctly?

Does this translate correctly? First, let me go to the washroom. まず、おてあらいにいきたいんです。
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