Cure Dolly
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Pros
- Some people find this way of explaining Japanese very helpful, especially if they already have some basic understanding of the language.
- Cure Dolly does this to a degree as well, but it's useful because it provides another perspective on the underlying complexity.
- follow something like tae Kim's guide or cure dolly.
- If grammar is important to you (very much is, if you are wanting to actually understand Japanese), supplement this method with Cure Dolly or Tae Kim example sentences.
- Man I love Cure Dolly. ... She was quite outstanding at making you understand the logic of how Japanese works.
Cons
- I really don't like her "Japanese teachers hate this one trick"-style marketing and the way she presents her oversimplified models as facts. And the people who claim she's helped them seem to still be beginners...
- FWIW, I agree Cure Dolly is full of garbage
- The biggest sin Cure Dolly (and people who repeat that flawed model) has done was focus so much on the が particle itself and convince a lot of people that there must be a が hidden somewhere in every sentence.
- I just don't see the point in explaining it the way cure dolly does, or even nitpicking around it. 窓が開けている is "the window is open" (= is in a state of being open) 窓が開けてある is "the window has been opened" (= is in a state of being open...
- The way cure dolly translates that sentence is weird because it follows her weird model of how ている/てある verbs work, which is mostly bullshit.
Sentiment
14 positive (36%) · 7 mixed (18%) · 18 negative (46%)
Trust + time weighted score: -21% · raw score -10%
What redditors said (10 of 39)
I really don't like her "Japanese teachers hate this one trick"-style marketing and the way she presents her oversimplified models as facts. And the people who claim she's helped them seem to still be beginners...
FWIW, I agree Cure Dolly is full of garbage
The biggest sin Cure Dolly (and people who repeat that flawed model) has done was focus so much on the が particle itself and convince a lot of people that there must be a が hidden somewhere in every sentence.
I just don't see the point in explaining it the way cure dolly does, or even nitpicking around it. 窓が開けている is "the window is open" (= is in a state of being open) 窓が開けてある is "the window has been opened" (= is in a state of being open as a resulting action of someone else) Trying to match てある and ている with animate vs inanimate state of existence is ridiculous.
The way cure dolly translates that sentence is weird because it follows her weird model of how ている/てある verbs work, which is mostly bullshit.
realistically speaking Cure Dolly's explanations are more incorrect than Tae Kim's on this matter. ... This is nonsense, and one of the main reasons why Cure Dolly is wrong.
I'm nitpicking but I really don't think cure dolly is a good source to explain how は (and が) work considering her video series has several mistakes about them.
I really don't think cure dolly is a good source to explain how は (and が) work considering her video series has several mistakes about them.
In my opinion you shouldn't take that dude's explanation of は vs が since he's just regurgitating mostly incorrect points from cure dolly (who was also incorrect in her explanation of it).
I think a lot of people are looking for The Final Word on は and latch onto the first mostly functional guideline they come across. It used to be Tae Kim, then Cure Dolly, now it's whatever YouTuber.
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