Is there any particular phrase or grammar point that always escapes you, no matter how many times you’ve read over it? For me, it’s causative/passive forms.

Mine’s not nearly as bad. [image]

How did you get the reading wrong twice?

I probably typed たいき because of 平ら.

My worst one. Apparently. Breath 息 [image]

Is it the vocab or the Kanji? And how did you find it?

定款 is problematic, but probably not a very important word because I don’t even know it in my native language. It just feels frustrating to always get it wrong.

Duh, of course (silly me) 予想 has 13 "wrong"s in my leech detector, but it’s not a problem anymore. Yay Leech-Squashing. [image]

transitive versus intransitive verbs: I understand the concept. When faced with the choice in a WaniKani review I have a 50:50 chance of getting it right. mnemonics are the only way to help me out of this. Words which have the meaning “expectation” and/or “anticipation” are driving me nuts. …

One little trick to using が that I found helpful was something mentioned in Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese. Rather than thinking of が as simply the “subject” particle, think of it as the “identifier.” For some reason, that really made it click for me.

What is the hardest kanji/vocab word/grammar point for you to remember?

Japanese Language

alexbeldan June 6, 2017, 7:35am 36

It’s the Kanji.

I used the leech detector.

Leech Detector

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