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The original was posted on /r/learnjapanese by /u/luckycharmsbox on 2025-01-15 20:00:18+00:00.
So part of my Japanese Journey has been finding Cure Dolly and feeling like my mind was blown by her explanations. (I know some people don't like her). I'm trying to get to the bottom of what the source is for her style of Japanese grammar understanding. I've read the Jay Rubin book Making Sense of Japanese also and get a similar vibe. But I also know someone who is a Japanese Professor (specializing mainly in translation) and when I ask her questions looking for Cure Dolly style answers she gives me the same N1-N5 answers I can find online. Does anybody know where Cure Dolly and Jay Rubin got their deeper understandings from? Maybe they were reading Japanese Grammar texts for Japanese people? An example would be learning that -reru and -masu are actually separate verbs that attach to the main stem. Does anybody have any idea? Thanks ahead of time!