your English-backed flashcards are why you’ve been stuck at N3 for two years. Not your kanji. Not your grammar. The fact that every review rep is secretly a translation rep. You know 懐かしい means “nostalgic,” and you still can’t use it, because nostalgic isn’t what it means — it’s what it’s near. Flip the back to a Japanese definition. Suddenly 寂しい and 侘しい stop being the same word wearing different clothes. It’ll hurt for two weeks. Then it won’t. 🇯🇵 Tag the friend who’s been “about to start japanese” since 2020. - @gengo.gus