Trying to get past the "make a buyer persona" advice that never seems to translate into real validation. Curious what people actually do before putting budget behind a campaign, small test ad spend, surveys, interviews, something else? What's given you a real signal versus just confirming what you already assumed going in?
I've been going through Genki and doing pretty well with the grammar patterns, but then I'll listen to a podcast or a conversation and things get dropped, reordered, or contracted in ways that don't match what I learned. Particles disappearing, verb endings getting cut short, word order shifting.
Is this just casual/spoken Japanese being different from textbook Japanese, is it dialect, or am I actually missing something in the grammar itself? Trying to figure out if I should just accept it as a "that's how speech works" thing or if there's more structure to it that I'm not seeing yet.