You could try listening to a song (start with slow songs) and write what you hear, then look up the lyrics in hiragana and check yourself. I’ve never tried this, and I suspect it’s pretty challenging as a beginner since you will be doing it all phonetically one mora at a time without the ability to pick out too many words or phrases. But from my experience, many intermediate learners struggle with listening since they’ve mainly studied from books. In addition to the writing practice, practicing listening and transcribing early on might help you substantially later on to isolate new words in spoken sentences.

There’s a lot of background info here. To fix the problem, jump to TLDR.

There is a pluggin called “Japanese Support” which this site used to recommend you install. However it seems most of the functionality of that pluggin was integrated into Anki 2.

One of the features of that plugin (that has not been made native to the main product) is that note types containing “Japanese” anywhere in their name and that contain the fields “Expression” and “Reading” will be able to automatically generate readings (furigana) in the “Reading” filed for anything typed into the “Expression” field. The way this seems to have worked is that the “Expression” field was broken down into parts and each part compared to a table of some kind that contained readings. The contents of the “Expression” field were then copied into the “Reading” filed with each part being separated by a space (an “English” space not a “Japanese” space). Any readings found previously are then added after their respective parts from the original and wrapped in brackets. See below:

Expression: 私は忙しい
私は忙しい –> 私＋は＋忙＋しい –> (look up readings) –>
In Reading filed: 私[わたし]<english space>は<english space>忙[いそが]<english space>しい

The readings (the stuff in brackets) are then centered over the areas between the English spaces. That is to say that わたし is centered between the start of the field and the first space, nothing is centered between the first and second spaces (since there was no bracketed reading), いそが is centered between the second and third space, and nothing is centered between the third space and the end (again, since there was no bracketed reading).
The end result is that わたし is right above 私 and いそが is right above 忙, right where they should be. You can mess things up though by going into the “Reading” field and adding, deleting or moving the English spaces around.
Why would anyone do that? Because the readings that are generated automatically are not always correct. 一人 for example is not automatically matched to ひとり. So, if you have that word in your expression, you need to manually correct the stuff that gets put between the brackets.
It’s my guess that when the deck was being made, and when that correction was being made, the deck’s creator accidentally deleted one of the English spaces so that the reading no longer centered correctly. And I’m guessing that the missing space went unnoticed because it is so small compared to Japanese style spaces which this site uses in it’s sentences.

TLDR:
To fix the problem, type an English space (that is hit the spacebar while typing in English, not Japanese) before “一人” in the Reading field of the card.

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• This reply was modified 9 years ago by  thisiskyle.
• This reply was modified 9 years ago by  thisiskyle.
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Double check 来る; it’s an irregular verb. Otherwise, they all look good.

One very common way that adverbs are used in Japanese that differs from English is that, in Japanese they are often used with the verb　なる (“to become” or “to get”), while in English we would use the adjective, not the adverb.

For example:
J: さむく　なる – さむい(adv form) + なる(verb)
E: to get cold – to get(verb) + cold(adj)

So, for ながい, you could use it in the sentence: ながくなったねぇぇぇ！
I’ll leave the translation up to you.

ながい can mean “long” in the temporal sense as well, such as in:
ながく　つづく　- to continue for a long time
ながく　はたらく – to work for a long time

• This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by  thisiskyle.

I actually disagree with Justin on this about pure, high-exposure rote memorization. Its a recipe for burn-out, and at least in my experience, any short term gains will be lost over time. If you’re having trouble remembering a kanji, you should try to improve your mnemonic. Make it more visceral.

I checked DOBJG and it seems you’re right about it *almost always being antecedent/consequence. The exception (which my examples fall into) is counter-factuals; like “If I were you…” or “If I had a million dollars…”

I guess since I use counter-factuals so much, it didn’t strike me as an “exception”.

Also, I know 私 is a noun. When you said that the first clause had to precede the second, I thought you meant it must entirely precede the second, that is to say, what’s happening in the first clause must be done with before the second.

In the future, when posting sentences here that you got confusing feedback for on Lang-8, try to include the corrections you got on the sentences, not just the sentences themselves. Also, both here and on Lang-8, try to give some context. A sentence that has been isolated from its context is hard to interpret. This is especially true with conditional statements, where the context really determines what the conditional means.
I say this because some of your sentences seem very strange to me (and I realize that them may have just been contrived grammar practice), but they could make sense in context. For example, “When it’s twelve o’clock, I’ll go to sleep” sounds strange on its own (why not just say “I’ll go to sleep at twelve”?), but could make sense in the context of a conversation. Without the proper context, the people on Lang-8 (and here) don’t know which way to go to help, and will likely reduce the sentence to the simplest form that still conveys the information, even if that form does not bear the nuance you were looking for.

I’ve never heard of ～たら being limited to strictly chronological cases.

I imagine it’s either the restaurant or the daughter that is “in the process of becoming a reality”. In either case (in fact, in both cases), congratulations.