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Your native language (Русский) quietly pushes you into specific Japanese errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.
See my full report & start free →You already think in roles (кому/что/где) — Japanese marks the same roles with particles after the noun: に≈dative, を≈accusative, で≈instrumental/locative. Same logic, but separate unchanging words, not fused endings.
Russian scrambles word order for emphasis; Japanese allows some scrambling too but the verb MUST close the clause, and は-topic fronting does the emphasis work instead.
Perfective/imperfective doesn’t translate one-to-one: Japanese ている covers both ongoing action (читаю) AND resulting state (женат, умер — 結婚している, 死んでいる). Learn ている as "in the state of", not just "-ing".
Russian politeness is mostly the ты/вы switch; Japanese re-conjugates every verb (plain vs です/ます) and adds honorific/humble vocabulary. Pick the register for the whole conversation.
Particles mark grammatical role — choosing は vs が and を vs に is the core challenge.
Japanese is Subject-Object-Verb; the verb always comes last.
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