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JLPT · Listening

36 JLPT listening killer sentences, replayed with the browser voice. Pick what each one means exactly from three options. The two distractors are real listening traps (paraphrase, opposite meaning, number/time, homophone), and the explanation unpacks both the answer and the traps.

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What does this sentence mean exactly?

Script
会議は3時からではなく、3時半に始まります。
かいぎは さんじ からではなく、さんじはん に はじまります。
Meaning
The meeting starts at 3:30, not at 3:00.
Chunk by chunk
会議は
かいぎは
The meeting
3時からではなく、
さんじ からではなく、
not from 3:00
The 〜ではなく cancels the 3:00 just said. Catching only 3:00 here is the number/time trap.
3時半に
さんじはん に
at 3:30
始まります。
はじまります。
starts
Hearing 始まる (start) as 終わる (end) is the opposite trap.
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