Join the Beginner Book Club here! Aria the Masterpiece Home Thread Aria the Masterpiece Chapter 2: 水先案内人 [Aria the Masterpiece Volume 1] Start Date: June 30th Previous Chapter: Chapter 1 Next Chapter: Chapter 3 Vocabulary List Aria the Masterpiece Volume 1 Vocab This Sheet is priva…

You can’t say that in English? (I would word it “it doesn’t feel like we can catch up” though)

Maybe think of it like “I don’t think we’ll be able to catch up.” Pretty sure the difference is confidence - “I don’t think we will” is, say, 25% certain that we’ll fail, “I think we won’t” is 75% certain. I made up those confidence values, though.

@Naphthalene You’re right, I guess it just depends on the wording. Maybe I was thinking too literally, taking the meaning from jisho and trying to use it in my English version. @Belthazar Yeah, that makes sense. I wonder what the actual (approximate) confidence levels would be though.

Just gonna sneak in a couple more questions before chapter 3 :grin: Page 74 / Seventy Four Top-right panel, top text box こうして記念すべき火星の一日目は幕を閉じました So, Jisho tells me that すべき means ‘should do’ or ‘ought to do’, and from the vocab list I’ve got that 記念 is ‘commemoration’. Does that mean th…

[image] Radish8: So, Jisho tells me that すべき means ‘should do’ or ‘ought to do’, and from the vocab list I’ve got that 記念 is ‘commemoration’. Does that mean the second line is essentially ‘ought to be celebrated’? The example sentence doesn’t seem to use it in that way, so I’m wondering whether …

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yeah, sorry about the confusion. Regarding ワクワク. There’s this vocab from level 51, 湧く（わく）. It means “to boil”, but also “to get exited”. I wonder that is the origin of ワクワク or if just onomatopoeia. I can’t help but think they are related.

It seems to come from 沸く actually (ref) Although some people think it should be 沸く湧く (not a serious ref)

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