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ah the map made out of cheesu
I've been messing around on Duolingo just for passively learning sentence structure but damn everyone seems to be so competitive in these dumb league tables they have

Renshu grammar is really good for sentence structure once you get past the baffling setup.

The gamification is in the form of a virtual gatchapon.

Sorry, I hated that interface so much I just gave up on that thing.

Forgot to mention
原-げん

Think I have a further elaboration of common transitive/intransitive pair patterns.

If the pairs end in す／る, the first tends to be transitive, the second intransitive.

If the pairs end in える／ある, the first is usually transitive, the second intransitive.

DO U SEE?

Then there is
苦しむ
苦しめる

But
伝える
伝わる
which fit the pattern

流す
流れる

海外旅行なんて無理よ。

コロナなんかですか？

Tsurukame audio feature now broken due to Wanikani file format change :(

No Covid news is good news, thanks. Actually some relatives just got it, but some others tested negative.

Further discussion on the Wanikani community board. Hoping a fix will come soon.

Developer taking a look as of half an hour ago.

…and it is already fixed on TestFlight

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