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In this video clip :
<https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfiBqUAzxHmyxBNLZ13fJBoIpmqOrFBQq>

The lady asks :

> 剣道で培ったことは日頃の自分にもすごい活きてるなあって思いますか？

The subtitle trasnlation says ：

> Do you feel that you're applying what you acquired through Kendo into daily
> life?

I can't exactly break down `活きてるなあって`. In the dictionary I found 活きてる（＝活きている）
is "be live" or "be of effect" or "be applied (in this context)". So I can
understand it is translated `"Do you think the things you learned from Kendo
is alive also to your every day's life?"` (it's not easy to translate one-to-
one in English because the word order is different and can't find exactly
matching word in English in many cases).  
My question is : Why is it `~なあって思いますか?`? Shouldn't it be `~なのがあると思いますか？`? Or
is it another way of saying the same thing？
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About "活きてるなあって思いますか？"
This な(あ) is [this sentence-ending particle](https://www.wasabi-
jpn.com/japanese-grammar/advanced-sentence-ending-particles/#2), so 活きてるなあ
means something along the lines of "(oh) it's alive/functioning!". This って is
an informal quotative particle (=と). Thus a literal translation would be:

> 「剣道で培ったことは日頃の自分にもすごい活きてるなあ」って思いますか？  
>  =「剣道で培ったことは日頃の自分にもすごい活きてるなあ」と思いますか？
>
> Do you think "(oh) what I cultivated through kendo is really alive also in
> my everyday self"?

なの doesn't follow a verb, so 活きてるなのがある is plain ungrammatical and makes no
sense.
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