Makes sense, I haven't got past that point either. The first 4 were easy especially with recap, but now I'm plodding through. The interactions are great though even if I can't understand much.
Sadly yes. In the past if I'm desperate enough I sometimes hold up my instant google translate app on the hard Chinese subtitles and get the gist of what's happening, but all the lovely costumes in this drama make the translation quite fickle and I hardly got anything that way. It was a bad method to begin with. I've currently resorted to running the audio through a speech to text tool and running google translate on that... Terrible translations... Probably better to just watch and not understand anything.
Only seen the first episode, but I'm loving it so far! I haven't seen many Jdramas, but Ayase has certainly stood out to me in the ones I have seen and I'm really glad to see her in something else.
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For kicks and giggles here's what an audio conversion and translation looks like:
https://pastebin.com/dnH6fpAx
:D Well there's dedication!
Because Doctor X never fails