Episode

Episode 55 - 確か・確かに

Podcast
How to Japanese Podcast
Published
Sep 23, 2024
Duration seconds
2191
Processing state
not_requested
Canonical source
https://howtojaponese.com/2024/09/23/impossible-pairs/
Audio
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/howtojapanese/Episode_55_-_Tashika.mp3?dest-id=1521518
JSON
/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575/episodes/episode-55
Markdown
/podcast/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575/episode-55.md

Actions

  • POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575/episodes/episode-55/transcription-requests
    Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
  • GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575/episode-55.md
    Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

確か ( tashika ) and 確かに ( tashika ni ) seemed impenetrable to me when I first started studying; somehow they're nearly identical but meant the exact opposite? I found that I was able to crack the code by "brute forcing" this an other impossible pairs. Read more in the newsletter , and check out the blog for a link to the Kakuta Mitsuyo reading I mentioned and to find a link to my Japanese reading group. Feel free to reach out with any questions or 悩み事 to [email protected] . You can also follow How to Japanese on Substack , Twitter , Instagram , TikTok , and Facebook .