{"podcast":{"title":"How to Japanese Podcast","slug":"how-to-japanese-podcast-658575","podcast_index_feed_id":658575,"rss_url":"https://howtojapanese.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://howtojapanese.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/9/6/e/496e4f28ec2ea01d/How_to_Japanese_Podcast_Cover.jpg","author":"Daniel Morales","episode_count":80,"summary":"Everyone learning Japanese needs a senpai - this podcast is your digital senpai. Join Daniel from HowToJapanese.com and guests to learn what strategies have been effective for them as they study, live, and work in Japan and using Japanese.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T10:18:28.817579+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 55 - 確か・確かに","slug":"episode-55","published_at":"2024-09-23T08:27:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575/episode-55","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575","url":"https://howtojaponese.com/2024/09/23/impossible-pairs/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/howtojapanese/Episode_55_-_Tashika.mp3?dest-id=1521518","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 howtojapanese@gmail.com . You can also follow How to Japanese on Substack , Twitter , Instagram , TikTok , and Facebook .","meta_description":"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 opposi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2191,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575/episodes/episode-55/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-japanese-podcast-658575/episode-55.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}