Is it a bad habit to read long sentences backwards to help understand it?

the more you read, the easier it will be to understand
and with practice you won’t need to read “backwards”

I still occasionally do flip the sentence but not as much as I used to. Typically when it’s when I think I understood then threw it into deepL to check and realize I goofed somehow. Sometimes deepL is wrong but usually it’s not the computer :wink:

I don’t have them anymore, but there used to be a couple of sentence parser links (someone else may be able to post links to them). They were very helpful in the beginning when trying to comprehend which piece of the sentence.

A quick search turned up this:

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I had found them originally in the wk forums someone else may be able to post a link (I lost the links when I switched computers and don’t really use this anymore but this type of thing was helpful in the beginning when trying to process what seemed like a wall of text.

Good luck and don’t stress too much.
Reading Japanese is supposed to be hard (I think :joy: )

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