Second "ga" particle is missing (old course: Japanese 3 for English speakers)

[alechp]

Reporting because I ran into this issue 3 times in one session
Notice how “ni” is presented, but it requires a second “ga” particle:

[Milamy (Mila)]

Hi @alechp

I looked at your learning list and could not see any course. This can happen when you are studying an old course.

By the sentence of the figure you posted, I was able to find out that the course you are doing is the old course: Japanese 3 for English speakers.

Older courses remain on your learning list because they have a different link from the new courses, and so the people who have studied them do not miss the progress. So you can continue to study the old course, but I do not know if the old course is still fixed. Even so, at the end of the text I put an explanatory figure where the problem appears: one of the last sentences of level 16 “Contamination!”.

If you want, you can study the old and new courses. The most recent courses are those that appear on the courses page.

• Direct link to: Japanese courses page for British English speakers
• Direct link to: Japanese courses page for American English speakers

Japanese 3 for English Speakers (old course), level 16:

[alechp]

I see. Thanks for letting me know!

If I’m studying Japanese 3 on the old course, should I start with Japanese 3 on the new course?

[Milamy (Mila)]

This is a difficult question to answer because it depends on your language experience.

The new courses (since course 1) have kanji’s in the middle of the sentence, unlike the old course, that the sentences were totally in hiragana. If you are not accustomed to kanji, starting from course 3 can be difficult.

The new Japanese courses start with course 0 (zero), and only in this course, there is only hiragana and katakana (except for the last level that has some numerals in kanji).

Some people who want a little more time before starting with kanji, study the course 0 by Memrise, and some courses created by the community.

See, for example, the links below, which give many tips on Japanese courses:

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Hi. So ive been learning Japanese for around a month now and ive mastered Hiragana and Katakana symbols but im not sure what to do next to get me fluently speaking Japanese. Any course suggestions besides the Official ones as they didnt really help me. Just threw random bits of vocab at me. Ive made my own course but realt just want to see an experienced persons course which will help me speak proper sentences. Can you post suggestions below???

[alechp]

Sounds like I should start from scratch.

Thanks for the tips Mila