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I finally unlocked and studied the Beginner Japanese Grammar & Vocabulary Schedules.

Also I played my first Shiritori Cat Game.

i learned some new words and kanji and i can keep a simple conversation going for about 3 - 4 minutes

May anyone be as kind as to tell me a trick that can make the て form and casual form conjugations easy and neither overwhelming nor confusing?! I'm doing N4 already while I feel totally stuck and hopeless about these... 😣😣

Grouping helps. Remembering the groups as a word helps. Casual Past form and て form are very similar.

Casual past form:

Verb ending -> replacement

Ichidan verbs:

る -> た e.g. おしえる -> おしえた

Godan verbs:

う,つ,る -> った (It's helpful to say this group as the word うつる) e.g. しまう ->しまった

ぬ,ぶ,む -> んだ (It's helpful to say this group as the made up word ぬぶむ) e.g. とぶ -> とんだ

く、(ぐ is the same as く, but with the dashes) -> いた (いだ) e.g. つく -> ついた, もぐ -> もいだ

す -> した　e.g. はなす -> はなした

て form:

just replace the た from causal past form with て　(and だ with で)

e.g. とぶ -> とんで

For any follow up, it would best to make a new post rather than posting it in this thread, which is supposed to be for "What did you learn today?"

I learnt about weather terms! あつい、さむい、天気、はれ、くもり etc..

I learned that 好き is the い-stem of the verb 好く, like 休み is the い-stem of 休む. Also, な-adjectives (like 好き) are (half)nouns. Both information together make a lot of sense to me. For reference see this video by Jouzu Juls. (Disclaimer: don't worry if you get confused, just use the information or explanations you understand.)