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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Yes, we should have expected a price rise when we’ve had some of the worst inflation in modern history this decade, but there’s also the declining yen. One dollar was worth 114 yen the week the Switch launched. It is currently worth around 145 yen. The British pound also increased from 140 yen to 184 yen, and the Euro from around 122 yen to around 160 yen. That’s around a 30% increase for all three currencies, which for the UK at least is almost enough to offset inflation.

    Obviously the yen could possibly quickly recover in the next few years, but I don’t think inflation is the only thing you should consider if you’re going to talk about how fair the price is in western markets.





  • 手紙 is the direct object. 家 is the place it was sent to, so I suppose that counts as an indirect object. Sentence order for Japanese is very flexible (although the verb must always come last), so I wouldn’t worry too much about memorizing any particular order beyond Subject-Object-Verb.

    Edit: I took a look at the source you gave, and I think you should probably disregard this sentence pattern. It’s clear from the purpose of the lesson that they were purposefully trying to shoehorn から, へ, and に into single sentence. I don’t think it sounds particularly natural.