Today I made the mistake of using を with について:
最近、AIについてをたくさん投稿している。
を is not needed as について already acts as the bridge to the verb, so it should be:
最近、AIについてたくさん投稿している。
So here’s a quick refresh of how to use について:
[Noun] about/regarding [noun]
AIについての投稿。
A post about AI.
Do [verb] about [noun]
AIについて投稿する。
Post about AI.
日本語について勉強した。
Learned about Japanese.
Since my goal is to be able to chat in Indonesian with friends, these are very common:
Tokopedia can be said the green one due to their logo so it’s ijo (hijau), which the “H” is dropped and the “au” is simplified to “o,” resulting in Ijo.
10. 留下一點存在過的痕跡：I 人的 Build in Public 安靜累積 | So We Aren’t Forgotten: An Introvert’s Build in Public
This podcast is definitely more for intermediate-advanced Mandarin learners. This topic has been fun:
I’m also kinda building in public with my language notes? 🤔
I’m also still working on this and on my end I think the key for me is “practice.” With AI around I usually ask it to give me 10 questions on the sentence I got wrong. For example, I’m really bad with the particle に. When I get it wrong, the sentence sometimes mean something completely different. For example:
留学している妹に、母が手紙を送りました。
弟に宿題をさせました。
I kinda get confused who was the person that did the action to whom. And if that’s messed up, it changes the meaning of the sentence a lot.
I think it would help if you share some sentences that you had trouble identifying. Maybe I’ll struggle with it too 😅
I feel like I’ll probably make many posts on how to say “if”, but today in class we talked about these two specifically.
Point of view: On the result
A is the key to B
郵便局に行けば、切手を買えますよ。
Vibe: I want to buy a stamp (result). So someone says if you go to the post office you can buy a stamp.
Point of view: On the current info
A is just the background knowledge of B
郵便局に行くなら、切手を買ってきて。
Vibe: I am not in urgent need of a stamp, so if you go to the post office (background knowledge), you can buy it (but if you don’t it’s totally fine)
I told my teacher that I’m going to 北海道 so we searched the keyword 北海道あるある, and I was like 「あるある？」
It has the vibe of:
It’s like the short form of saying:
そういうことはよくある。
That kind of thing happens all the time.
A: 最近リモートワークしてるんだけど、結局3時間くらいずっとTikTok見ちゃってる…
I started working from home (remote work), but I just end up scrolling TikTok for three hours…
B: それ、あるあるだよね〜！
That is SO me! I totally get it!
真冬でも、家では半袖短パンでアイスを食べるという"北海道あるある"
A classic Hokkaido thing is eating ice cream in a T-shirt and shorts at home, even in the middle of winter.
真冬 – まふゆ
半袖 – はんそで
The way I remember this (probably only works for me), was when I was watching Chobits, there was a book in the anime called 誰もいない町.
So drawing from that context:
For example:
何も食べません。
I’m not eating anything.
何でも食べます。
I’ll eat anything.
Other examples:
どれも選びません。
Not choosing anything.
どこも行きません。
Not going anywhere.
誰でも参加できます。
Anyone can join.
どれでも選べます。
Can choose anything.
どこでも行けます。
Can go anywhere.
When describing a state, どこも + positive is used.
どこも混んでいます。
It’s crowded everywhere.
Reading this reference helps me make sense of the exception too. The grouping is like Everywhere—this place, that place, and that place—is crowded.
I know the difference between ない and ていない, but the others aren’t that clear to me. So making this as a reference.
Notes: ない is for making this personal decision to not eat, I don’t feel like it, I don’t want to kinda vibe. ていない is more of expressing the state of whether one ate or not.
Notes: もう食べる is the most confusing one for me. I’m thinking it’s just like an emphasis of I AM going to eat. (“on my way” type of emphasis?)
I was trying to use 見てもらえる and 見かける in my diary today, as I recently just had a note on 見かける.
I was curious if I used it correctly so I asked AI for feedback and then checked with my Japanese teacher.
So I was curious what was the difference between バッチリ and ぴったり
ぴったり is about alignment, バッチリ is about success/outcome.
ぴったり is also very common when talking about whether a physical size or space fits, for example:
この靴は私にぴったりです。
These shoes fit me perfectly.