u/Clay_teapod

I'm gonna be going to ISI for a year- will I be studying in the morning or the afternoon?

Their site said that it depends on your level, which there will be a test for upon arrival, but I don't remember if it said something like "N5-N3 morning N2-N0 afternoon" or what. Can anyone who's gone to the school give me some insight? It's a bit hard trying to plan a schedule without knowing when my classes are gonna be.

Ok, I don’t have many examples, but just from what I remember coming across reading

掌 → 手の平

快い　→ 心良い

弄ぶ　→ 持て遊ぶ

It just seems redundant to have a specific kanji for a word that can be perfectly constructed with pre-existing ones. What’s going on here?

Also, to be fair, I’ve never seen 「持て遊ぶ」written like that, but I have seen the others, so I don’t know if there’s a rule of when to use them or not.
*EDIT* apparently it’s just もて遊ぶ no 持. So the もて there doesn’t mean “grab”? I do not know. Also thank you everyone for all the wonderful answers- it feels very obvious in hindsight lol.

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found this beautiful wooden flute in a drawer, but I have no idea how to play it

I don't mean as in learning how to write kana or kanji; I mean as in how to express yourself in written Japanese.

I would consider myself an advanced learning, and have been reading books for a while now, but writing in Japanese is still the bane of me- I know I should just do it but the idea of writing a coherent piece by hand in japanese is so overwhealming I can't even get myself to start.

I'm thinking something akin to a creative-writing course, but that will help me build my writing skills from the ground up to long multi-page essays/presentations. Just something I can follow along and grind at every day during my study time.

Any recs?