TFW…
… you pause the amv and start reading the letter she wrote to her mother in Totoro BECAUSE YOU CAN!!!
Which tells me that she had told her mother about Totoro and presumably all the amazing stuff going on with Totoro and all the spirits 🤩
Duolingo gets worse (two peeves in one!)
The new interface has particles attached to words a lot of the time… but they have attached them to the front of the next word, not the word they belong with/are marking… OK, if it is a transitive verb, you could argue that the を that goes on the verb’s object* is only there because of the type of verb it is**, so it should be on the front of the verb, but… Sugawara sensei drilled us endlessly that if we really absolutely desperately must pause after a word, to gather our thoughts or whatever, if we were going to pause after a word, to say the particle first and then pause, so particles obviously belong with the word that comes before them, the word they mark; & Some verbs are complicated enough that they can be generating multiple particles - verbs to give and to receive tend to generate に &/or から as well as the を particles, for just one example; & You can have other words after that を or が particle and before the verb, like adverbs, or numbers and counters and ...
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