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Just a reminder to never trust Google Translate
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Those are rather common words so depending on your learning source you should be able to read most of it (enough to understand meaning) in a month or two.
From this picture definitely worth learning first are those words imo:
Remember to be consistent in your studies, it's better to learn for 10 minutes every day than an hour every week.
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I agree about being able to grasp the gist of the message with some basic Japanese, but IDK about being able to actually read the message.
There are some parts of the message that I don't think is included in basic Japanese lessons:
If I were to translate the message with my meager self-taught Japanese, I'd probably render it as something like
Though I don't think that fully captures the nuance of the message itself.
True those words are N4 but some decks on Anki will include those since those are common words.
But even if you use only N5 decks you can guess the meaning. When I was starting I barely understood a thing and yet I was able to guess the meaning. You just get: "please ahead **** **** don't go ****". "Yeah it probably means to not go any further." I mean true, you can't fully read the message but enough to get the meaning.
Your translation isn't bad but I'd say it's too literal. I'd translate it to something like this:
Though keep in mind I'm no expert and this could probably be translated better :p
Thanks! About the translation, yeah, my primary concern is putting across the wording of the original, that's why it became too literal. You know, that basic Japanese newbie learner tendency to be too literal.
I am also a bit stumped about the grammar used for the last sentence, but I'm guessing it's some polite construction which wouldn't affect the English translation too much.