I will try to speak Japanese. I will try and learn this language. I will try. I am trying. These are common phrases that seem to throw people off. How do you say to try and do something? Today I break that down and deliver this ultra common phrase in under 5 minutes.

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[Phrase]
When you want to say that you or someone else is going to or went somewhere, the simplest way is to say:

Noun (the target location) にいく (ni iku)

The に particle indicates direction, and the verb いく means go.

[noun] 一番 means the ‘number one’ or ‘first place’ of someone or something. This is often used in idiomatic phrases to indicate when someone thinks something is the best.
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So I was at the store and I made a total fool of myself. Which is why today we are talking about screwing up. Which I tend to do everyone once and a while.

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No f***ing way?! Dude? For real?! Because people want to know how to say some very important and often colorful things, I bring you a little more informal lesson. Usso means lie, but when used in spoken Japanese, it carries a lot more meaning.

Learning Japanese can be confusing. Particularly when it comes to hierarchy and the levels of formality. I often have questions about how this exactly works. Sometimes people get confused and think this is something divisive and fracturing, when it couldn’t be farther from the truth.

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何しろ (nani shiro) is used when someone feels very strongly about some unusual or extreme situation. It is different from 本当に because 本当に simply means “really”, without any connotation of something extreme. 何しろ is close to the English expression “believe it or not”, “think what you may”, and “in fact”. Note that this expression is mainly spoken.

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いかにも (Ikanimo), similar to 本当に (hontou ni), is used when you want to express that you really believe what you say. Difference between the two is merely the level of formality… meaning that it is a slightly more polite way to say 本当に. It usually comes in a pair with a statement of conjecture. Meaning that something really seems a certain way, or you really feel a certain way about something.

This is REALLY REALLY important. That is HontoNi is really, like literally really. Really?! Really.

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