So today I read the last three pages of よつばと！ volume 1 chapter 1
🍀Translation attempt, pages 48-50🍀
——— 48 ———
ちがうよ？よつばのうちはもっともっと、ずーっと遠くにあるんだよ？
That wrong? My home is very very far far away?
あ‼︎ こ、こいつ何にもわかってなかったのか‼︎
A-?? D- didn’t she understand anything at all (of the process of moving)?
…いいかーよく見ろ、これが
Listen- look, this is
今日からよつばが住む新しい家だ！
the new house you will live in from today onwards
——— 49 ———
おおー⁉︎ 今日からここか⁉︎
Ooh!? From today (we’ll live) here!?
で、こっちが私達の家
So, this is our house
おおっ
Ooh 
とーちゃん！おとなりさんだ‼︎
Dad! They’re our neighbors!!
そうだお隣さんだ
That’s right, they’re our neighbors
——— 50 ———
じゃ、よろしくね、よつばちゃん
Well then, pleased to meet you
よろしくね
pleased to meet you
よろしくー
pleased to meet you
よろしくな‼︎
pleased to meet you!!
じゃああのお姉ちゃんはわるい人じゃないの？
So, “big sister” isn’t a bad person after all?
は？
What?
ちがうのよー
No, that’s wrong 
——— end ———
This tripped me up a few times and I went through three iterations for the translation: “わかってなかったのか”, I’m guessing のか makes it a question? Not sure what の is doing here. Apart from that I’m pretty confident.
I’ve been listening to a Japanese podcast (あらB.fm) a few times a week just to get used to the sounds and rhythms of Japanese, but lately (最近) a qualitative change has come over the way I listen. The language grabs my attention instead of me having to force my attention towards it, words I know now stand out to me, and I think I’m developing an auditory awareness of grammar and the ability to recognize words I don’t know as words I don’t know instead of as a soup of sounds 
It’s like a switch was flicked. Pretty exciting 