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Everytime I try to read a tweet in Japanese I realize just how horrible I am at understanding it. Last night someone used the term 火力 which means heating power/steam power according to a site I use to help me understand and I just didn't understand the context behind it. I guess I shouldn't expect much since I'm only like 4-5 weeks into learning.
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力 is often used as suffix to indicate the power of the thing it is used after, or even an ability/personal trait if you describe a person with it. In that vein you have 想像 (imagination) and 想像力 (power of one's imagination/how well someone can visualize things), 説得 (persuade) and 説得力 (coercive/persuasive power) or even 決断 (decision/determination) and 決断力 (decisiveness) etc.
You'll have fun with kanji compounds in no time! :wacko:
This. 4-5 weeks won't teach you a language that's very close to your native language, nevermind one that is about as far removed from your native language as languages come. And tweets can be quite difficult because they're often full of casual language and abbreviations, being that the aim is to say something in more or less as short a way as possible. I'm guessing that you are indeed horrible at understanding Japanese right now. But that's completely normal at that stage, and it would be strange if you were able to flawlessly understand things after a handful of weeks.Quote:
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Anyway, you should stick at it! ^_^ And do keep trying to read native level Japanese around you, even if it's hard! I think constant exposure to native level language is probably the most essential thing in learning a language well, and the common constant between almost everyone I've ever met who has been skilled at a foreign language has been that they learned it not only from textbooks but from real language too.
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I don't hate it with a fiery passion, and there are certainly worse games out there but... imagine everything that's good about a JRPG. Now imagine a game lacking all of that. That's Last Story.