掲示板 Forums - If anyone does self-grading, how would you grade your sentences?

You could always find a Discord server to post sentences you aren’t too sure about to have people point out mistakes and/or correct them for you in order to help with your self-grading. No shame in asking for some assistance

Fair enough

I've occasionally made grammatically correct sentences that aren't what the answer would be. I chalk that up to the fact that the answer is electronically a pre-configured answer. But grammatically correct is grammatically correct. That would mean that both answers are correct.

Japanese fortunately has that leniency in some part that you can rearrange sentences as long as the pair of words and particles are together and say the same thing. There are some cases there is an order to things in what youre talking about, but that shouldn't be difficult to figure out and that doesn't necessarily cancel out the remaining information, so it still has that feature.

As for grading myself, I don't concern myself with that. It's not the trouble of making the right answer. I often do anyway, and that's because I drill a lot. My real issue is working on comprehension. It's deeper than worrying about what you're saying. It's about how you say it. So, you can say the same thing in different ways, the important part is using the pattern properly, and that's different to just trying to make a proper sentence, if that makes sense to you.

I work with what I have, but I'm not putting too much stock in how Renshuu evaluates or requires what I should practice. I practice what I can in my own time. Working on different muscles of the body, rather than everything at once.

In a real school, grading is more about quality of work, but that doesn't necessarily mean quality of knowledge. Knowledge is your responsibility. Since it doesn't qualify knowledge, higher education makes up for that with certifications and degrees to show you've practiced in the programs for it.

In Renshuu, there's not much that matters beyond that. You get the same thing, but for your personal benefit. Mastery levels, % correct in reviews, etc. It also has the same thing lacking. That's as far as tge gamification goes. It can't tell you how much you've forgotten or what you're really bad with practicing. You've have to figure out those flaws yourself. So judge your experience with what you've learned.

While we're on the subject of skills, here's a tip: 「その店は広いです」 and 「そこは広い店です」 are grammatically correct sentences. But there is a difference, and it's not that you've switched a word around. You have to read what it's saying for comprehension. You probably won't be reading that too hard down the road, but for the purpose of learning, analyze them.

The main difference between the first and second sentences is that the second sentence contains a modifier, an adjective, to a noun. So it involves a description of a noun. The first sentence mentions the subject of the statement, which involves an adjective to describe it.

The first sentence basically reads, emphasis mine, "this store is spacious". The second is just "that is a spacious store". You can think of the は particle as marking the emphasis of what you're talking about. If you use が, it's intended to bring to light a new subject. Almost like bringing emphasis, but you could be talking about sonething else.

So for the first sentence, you mention a store, and then after marking that with は, you put in the information about it. The second sentence instead puts in the information about the store as a modifier. Where is は? It is attached to just そこ, which is directing attention to the location of what you're talking about, and after は, you add the information you're talking of that space.

So, you can see that in this aspect, there's a nuance to the sentences themselves, but also different to each other. You don't have to do a deep dive unless you want to figure why and how these sentences work and see how doing it wrong will make it ungrammatical. But its important to be aware that is how this works.