には: Compound particles 1 (Locations)

Introduction

Welcome to your first compound particle lesson! A lot of people really struggle with these, but I promise you'll leave this lesson feeling confident, large, as well as in-charge.

Let's get into it, shall we?

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The compound particle we'll be looking at today is none other than には! には gets a bad rap because many sources fail to explain it correctly. This leads to students getting stuck in a never-ending loop of "perceived understanding" → confusion → forgetting → returning to the same sources → and repeat. The reality is, once you truly understand には, you'll have absolutely no trouble remembering what it does, and why it be the way that it do.