I could just be wildly overestimating my ability here. I feel i can understand a fair amount of the spoken dialogue, and can read *moderately* okay-ish, but I can't do both at the same time yet. I just don't know enough kanji to progress at an acceptable rate in the game.
which is fine by me, I'm still learning (or rather, getting back into the swing of things) and i don't live in Japan atm so I think I can see the hard limits of what I'm able to do? Compound words are one thing im having a hard time with.
For some context for anybody that is familiar with the game, I played the scene where Joker (Ren), Ryuji, Ann and Morgana are eating at a fancy hotel buffet and Ren eavesdrops on other people talking about Kamoshida's arrest while getting food. i think I was able to get the gist of what everybody was talking about, which actually kind of shocked me when I went back to a previous save and played it again but with English text. There were just too many words I needed to look up to understand *everything* well, which destroyed my pacing.
Which brings me to my actual question: how do you read in general without stopping to look up unknown words? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question but it's something I struggle with doing.
by Jazz_Musician