Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

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Spanish sounds horrible to me.  Right up there with Chinese and Arabic.

But on to a more serious topic.  Is learning Japanese somehow conducive to making fat anime nerds not want to shower?  Why the fuck is it that half of my Japanese class smells like cheese and can barely pronounce simple words?