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会社 and 社会 is driving me nuts, I can never remember which one is which

So many like that, including that pair.

The good thing about WaniKani is that it allows you to test that stuff over and over until you finally get it. The bad thing is that often it feels like I will never get it.

the one that has been really tripping me up tho is 八つ being ya and 八日 is yo, while both 四つ and 四日 are both also yo

so confusing I'm not even sure I got it right this time lol

Same.

Also sometimes not careful about which counter it even is and mix them together.

会社 and 社会 is driving me nuts, I can never remember which one is which

i just learned these words today! time will tell if i'm able to retain the difference between the two as the flashcard intervals get larger.

i'm starting to think my "don't worry about pronunciation" approach might be a bad idea. on the one hand, i can read and understand the kanji but on the other hand, i can't really look them up because i don't know how to type them

Yes. Feel like the whole point of the thing is to learn the most important readings/pronunciations.

Recently signed up for emails from the wanikani guys which led me to this interesting and relevant discussion: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/kanji-radicals-mnemonic-method/

These two always get me:
相手
助手

会社 and 社会 is driving me nuts, I can never remember which one is which

This one is an easy one for me as I’m often looking for the name and address of a sale brewery in the side of the bottle and anchoring to 株式会社 is the easiest way. 社会　is just the other one.

On the other hand, 相手　and 助手　are infuriatingly close. Inevitably I always do better if I can anchor to something outside of the flash cards.

Recently I have been struggling with

仲良し
仲が良い

which are infuriatingly close in meaning but definitely not the same.

This related word gets mixed in too:
仲良く

Just mixed up these two
専
寺

Sound is back on Tsurukame.

Thing that I am starting to get straight:
The short and long pronunciation of the first kanji here:
世界
世紀
世辞

Thing that still gives me grief:
All the different nuances of meaning as well as whether to rendaku or not for words that start with
大

I thought I was getting a feel for when to rendaku until I came to 早口, my brain really thinks this should be guchi dammit

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

Wikipedia article quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku#Examples

Sorry, linked in the middle instead of the top.

Both readings are correct for 早口, and you certainly hear both said. There’s a lot of regional and personal variation in rendaku in any case.

Ah, yeah, so they are, thanks. Me, I can never quite remember the meaning of this one:
早速

Basically stuff that means something like recently, soon, nearby, just now right away etc. always gets jumbled up in my head.

Right now my recent rendaku issues center on a particular kanji that is already voiced
材
vs a lookalike with similar pronunciation that does have a rendaku and non-rendaku version
財

Anyway I feel kind of good that I aware of and know how to type the special rendaku kana ぢ and づ as in 鼻血(はなぢ) . Can’t think of a word for the other one, actually.

早まって喜ぶな。

^From Clozemaster, which I highly recommend.

Have been forging ahead on Duolingo but it just got insanely hard.

I was on the level
Memories and The Arts 1
And just got to
Weather 2 and Law
but the sentences are just too long at this point

So probably should just stick to Clozemaster

These three, but getting close:
神
禅
福

I thought I was getting a feel for when to rendaku until I came to 早口, my brain really thinks this should be guchi dammit

These two:
温
湯

村
材

I finally came up with a system to get it thru my thick skull lol
会社 kaisha - begins with a k sound, company
社会 shakai - begins with an s sound, society

That’s pretty good actually. I have something like that for another, hopefully will post soon.

Sitting here at level 20 going on 21 with a thousand reviews.

A thousand years I’ve been imprisoned in this bottle studying wanikani!

The Wanikani guys really like The Dictionary of Japanese Grammar, all three volumes, but I don’t know if I can buy too many physical volumes these days and the ebook seems suspect.

I finally came up with a system to get it thru my thick skull lol
会社 kaisha - begins with a k sound, company
社会 shakai - begins with an s sound, society

Sometimes a pair like this can confuse me:
時期
期待

So I just started to dip into Japanese in anticipation of a trip (that is now very likely postponed) and because it intersting and came across "80/20 Japanese" which to my very novice eyes seems pretty good? anyone else have experience with this?

Not me, sorry.

i found this particularly (ha ha) helpful: https://8020japanese.com/japanese-sentence-structure/

if you can get past the voice and creepiness, the first couple of videos here finally made japanese sentence structure click for me: hxxps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj

particularly the insight that every japanese sentence has a subject marked with が, whether explicit or implied by the context

急行列車

私はあれを知らない

https://onomatoproject.com/

会議
議会
but this pair seems a little easier, famous last words

せっかくの苦労もあだになった。