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I'm lost, I think I get the general gist of the statement, but I'm unsure as
to what the whole meaning is and while there's a few grammar points I'm unsure
of (「とか」 and 「なんだな」 I'm guessing are a listing particle and a shortened
version of 「なのだな」) I can't make sense of the **「自分は深く考えてなかった」** part.

(It's a comment on one of my HelloTalk posts. Basically me saying I think we
learn a lot from your own and others' mistakes)

The post:

> 私もそうおもいます ここは間違いやすいとこなんだな、とか自分は深く考えてなかったけどこういう理屈なんだな、とか。

What I think they said:

> I think so too. Here's somewhere you can easily make mistakes isn't or [This
> is the part I'm a little confused about] but, ["this is the reason"?]
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I don't understand this sentence 「自分は深く考えてなかった」
You're right. 「〜とか」 is a listing particle for general examples of the topic
being discussed. However It should always come after the example being given.
You can see the writer used it at the beginning of the second sentence when he
should have used 「たとえば」instead. *(which means "for example") Also it seems
like an afterthought at the end of his final sentence too so it doesn't
necessarily need to be there either.

Ok so let's break down the part your confused about. 自分{じぶん}は
深く{ふかく}教えてなかった{おしえてなかった} I'm guessing the first part that might be confusing
is 深く{ふかく}. This is the adverb form for the adjective 深い{ふかい}(deep; profound).
You can make any い-adj into an adverb by dropping the い and replacing it with
く. You can also do this with な-adj but instead you add に to the end. eg:
静か{しずか}(quiet) --> 静か{しずか}に(quietly) Therefore 深く{ふかく} would mean "deeply" or
"profoundly"

The second part I'll address is the verb they used. 教える{おしえる} means "to teach;
to instruct". Here they expressed in the past continuous state. The 〜ている form
it means it's continuous and he used 「〜て(い)なかった」 which means was not x-ing.
However he dropped the い after て which is how you might casually speak the
words. It still means the same thing just is a more colloquial way of
conjugating the verb ending.

So in conclusion, 「とか」things like~ (*for example) 「自分{じぶん}は」as for myself
「深く{ふかく}」deeply 「教えてなかった{おしえてなかった}」was not teaching
「とか、自分{じぶん}は深く{ふかく}教えてなかった{おしえてなかった}けど…」

If we put it together it sounds like "For example, as for myself was not
deeply teaching but..."

This still sounds a little confusing though so based on the conversation topic
I would conclude the writer wanted to say "For example, as for myself I have
not been extensively taught but..." To do this they would have needed to use
the passive form of 教える{おしえる} which would be 「教えられなかった{おしえられなかった}」. Also as a
side note the writer seems to write as they think which might explain why
their sentence structure is the way it is.

Hope that helps.
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