Thank you so much for setting this up @Kazzeon! It seems like ages since we read any Yotsuba! Great to get back into it! And so, here goes with my first question…
Haven’t got the book on me right now, but I’m about 90% sure it’s “until the thread is taut”, but I can’t find a word in Jisho which backs me up here. It’s onomatopoeic - the って is the quotation marker.
ちがうー - no, not like that
あいてる - ている form of 開く, to open, あいている, but with い dropped for casual speech, all modifying the noun 所
所を - place + を
あてて - from 当てる, meaning 3, to apply, in てform (with missing ください I presume)
Lit: No, not like that, apply the open place (on the cup) (to your ear)!
“No, not like that, the open bit!”
I think every other definition from 3 makes more sense.
to put on; to put against; to hold on; to hold against
Since that one is: to apply (e.g. patch)
恵那 - Ena
も - too, also
子供っぽい - childish
こと - thing
やって - てform (or even casual ている form?!) of やる, to do
ん - explanation particle の, in casual form
なー sentence ending particle (kind of like “I see”)
Ena is also doing childish things
“Right, I see, Ena is also playing this childish game”
So, here’s the song that Yotsuba’s singing on page 14:
Can’t find the specific model of phone Miura is referring to, but au is a real phone manufacturer in Japan. Kind of interesting that the model number is “zed eks” rather than the Americanian “zee”.
Chiyo-chan’s dad putting in another cameo there.
Yotsuba’s kaomoji is definitely the best part of the chapter.
I hardly like to ask this, but have I read all this Yotsuba and managed to miss a character?! I know the dad next door, who is rarely there, but who is Chiyo-chan?
Main character of Azuma-sensei’s previous manga, Azumanga Daioh.
We never see Chiyo’s actual father on-panel, but two separate characters separately dream about him, and in the dreams, he looks like the stuffed cat that Miura uses as a weight. He speaks English.
I recently started reading yotsubato, and laughed out loud when i saw chiyo’s dad on I believe fuuka’s shirt (could be someone else’s). Azumanga daioh is fantastic.
Now at volume three of yotsuba, so I might join you guys in a few weeks…
I’ll get to reading the first chapter after I work for a bit. 
