1. エイミーはどのように物をいうようになりましたか。
My efforts to translate this into coherent English have failed. What is it asking?
2. 入り口に銭湯の名前入りののれんがかかっていてね...
I assume this is something about the name of the baths being displayed on a "noren" hanging at the entrance. However, I don't understand how 銭湯の名前 connects grammatically with 入りののれん. How does this work?
3. お湯から上がってからはお年寄がそのへんに座っておし ゃべりしながら夕涼みしているのを見てたもんだね。
My translation: "After I got out of the bath (lit. hot water), I also used to see the old people sitting there chatting in the cool of the evening."
Is this OK?
a) What exactly does 夕涼みしている mean? I assume it derives from 夕涼み + する, literally meaning "doing the cool of the evening", but in English would it be something like "passing the cool evening"?
b) I'm guessing that the end of this is parsed as 見て + (い)た + もん + だ + ね, with もん signifying something done frequently. Is this correct?
4. An American girl is talking to the mother of the Japanese family with whom she is staying. They've been discussing how the Japanese mother's children work so hard at school. Then the Japanese mother says:
「ええ。でも、あれは本当にいいことなのかしらと思っ てしまうわ。子供は勉強以外のこともしなくちゃね。一 郎は野球をしたり...」
She then goes on to list her children's various interests outside of schoolwork and study.
a) In the second sentence, does あれ refer to her children? Does the whole sentence mean something like "Well, those two have turned out OK"? Or "I wonder if those two will be OK"? I can't really decipher the nuance of かしらと思ってしまう.
b) Is なくちゃ = なくてはならない (or similar), so does the second sentence mean "Children should do things outside of study"?
My efforts to translate this into coherent English have failed. What is it asking?
2. 入り口に銭湯の名前入りののれんがかかっていてね...
I assume this is something about the name of the baths being displayed on a "noren" hanging at the entrance. However, I don't understand how 銭湯の名前 connects grammatically with 入りののれん. How does this work?
3. お湯から上がってからはお年寄がそのへんに座っておし ゃべりしながら夕涼みしているのを見てたもんだね。
My translation: "After I got out of the bath (lit. hot water), I also used to see the old people sitting there chatting in the cool of the evening."
Is this OK?
a) What exactly does 夕涼みしている mean? I assume it derives from 夕涼み + する, literally meaning "doing the cool of the evening", but in English would it be something like "passing the cool evening"?
b) I'm guessing that the end of this is parsed as 見て + (い)た + もん + だ + ね, with もん signifying something done frequently. Is this correct?
4. An American girl is talking to the mother of the Japanese family with whom she is staying. They've been discussing how the Japanese mother's children work so hard at school. Then the Japanese mother says:
「ええ。でも、あれは本当にいいことなのかしらと思っ てしまうわ。子供は勉強以外のこともしなくちゃね。一 郎は野球をしたり...」
She then goes on to list her children's various interests outside of schoolwork and study.
a) In the second sentence, does あれ refer to her children? Does the whole sentence mean something like "Well, those two have turned out OK"? Or "I wonder if those two will be OK"? I can't really decipher the nuance of かしらと思ってしまう.
b) Is なくちゃ = なくてはならない (or similar), so does the second sentence mean "Children should do things outside of study"?
