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Hello! I'm a 20 year old male from Sweden, raised in a bilingual household so I'm completely fluent in both English and Swedish. I'm teaching myself Japanese but I have nobody else to speak Japanese with, that's why I'm here on italki! I'll gladly make friends with anyone that could assist me on my quest of learning Japanese and I would more than gladly teach anyone who wishes to learn Swedish or English everything I can,.よろしくお願いします！
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    As far as Android goes I use these 3 apps (although I haven't tried many): Jisho (Literally means dictionary, it does the job well) KanjiSenpai AnkiDroid (The Apple version of this costs however, but if you use Anki on your computer it's great to have)
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    September 21, 2015
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    August 19, 2015
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    I don't believe you can. If you want to specifically say/wirte the United States (of America) you'd write アメリカ instead, it can be written 亜米利加 too but I've never seen it written in kanji before, so I'd stick with the kana instead.
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    August 19, 2015
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    大きい (ookii) is an adjective that means large/big, whilst the kanji 大 alone is used more as a prefix and is mostly read as dai or tai (onyomi), in words such as 大学 (daigaku), 大変 (taihen) and 莫大 (bakudai) but still meaning large/big/great within the context of the word. That's my sloppy answer, but I hope it helps.
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    August 18, 2015
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    It's the same in English (and Swedish). I guess it's just the best way to describe words that aren't easy to say or feelings difficult to convey. They just feel heavy to bear and hard to hear, so I'm assuming it has the same connotation in Japanese as in the aforementioned languages (although I cannot guarantee that I'm correct). In English when someone has said something that is difficult to say they may often describe it as "a weight being lifted off their shoulders" afterwards. It's the same as describing a conversation as being "deep" or "light".
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    August 18, 2015
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    I see your question's been answered already, but I thought I'd share this video as it was what really got me to understand early on in my learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCiIAXVr1FU He's got many other good, short and informative videos too. Hope it is of use!
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    August 11, 2015
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    Best method/resource to learn and retain new words? I've been learning a bunch of kanji through flashcards (using Anki) the past month or so and I've noticed a big difference in the learning curves of new kanji depending on whether or not I am already familiar with a word in which they are a part of. I'm curious if anyone has a good method or know any good resources for learning new words in an interactive way as I find myself struggling with learning vocab from books and pure repetition (as it gets me so bored, stumping my motivation). I'm also interested if anyone has any good tips or tricks when it comes to retaining words. Using those words as often as possible in conversation is an obvious way to do it, but it's rarely I have someone to converse with. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!
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    April 28, 2015
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    April 28, 2015
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    As of now; I too feel that Kanji is the toughest thing to learn. So many pronounciations/readings and combinations to remember coupled with the shear amount of them! Pronounciation was never a problem for me, nor was Hiragana and Katana. The grammar is quite different to the grammar used in Swedish and English but I found that I found a knack for the basic rules quite early on through simply listening to quite a lot of Japanese. The grammar can be quite iffy once you start forming longer sentences but at least the verb konjugations are easy for the most part. I can imagine that learning the verb konjugations in English is a hassle as there is so many exceptions if you are learning it as a second language!

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    April 21, 2015
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