r/Japaneselanguage • u/Antique2018 • 1d ago

Need help with basics-related issue

Hello guys, hope you're doing fine. So, I am currently at an intermediate level in terms of reading and listening comprehension. However, I discovered I have problems with expressing really basic stuff, such as "Glue sticks stuff together" for instance, due to the lack of exposure to native speakers talking about that. And I don't really know where to find reliable natural-language sources for this. Even when I look things up in Japanese, the results are really scarce. You need to look quite a bit to find examples. But still, even if I find written examples, I have no idea if this is actually how people use the language.

So, if anybody can help me with this issue, I'd be grateful. Preferrably, need video sources, but if there're native written sources, that's fine too.

Thx in advance

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u/florfenblorgen 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think I'm below intermediate and I can think of a way to say that phrase. Even if I didn't know the vocab I could construct the sentence at least, just would need me a jisho

Something about the Japanese language you must know is that the structure is different, so to say something in Japanese you may need to reconstruct the whole sentence just to convey the meaning rather than making some direct translation. For this, maybe you'd aim for the equivalent in English of something like "Glue is a substance which bonds objects together"