Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (August 01, 2023)

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1. Trying to write down the conversation but subs are not translated correctly

   Listening practice: [here](https://streamable.com/cz2ai6)

   After 0:10, I get the sentences but im struggling to pick up parts of them.. could someone show me the rest pls..

2. i’m reading natsume yuujinchou for reading practice (which admittedly wasn’t the brightest idea since there is some weird vocabulary in here but anyway), and this sentence stumped me a little. It’s pretty straight-forward, and I thought I had it, but when I read a translation (unless the translation is wrong–i think it’s a fan tl) it seemed I was wrong. Anyway, sentence:

   Hiiragi: “それはー名取には話せないものなのか”

   Natsume: “話したいけれど「祓い屋」に知られると良くないものらしくて話せば面倒にまきこむことになるかもしれないんだ
   (名取 is Natori, a name)

   Okay, so when I first read this, I took it to mean that Natsume didn’t want to tell Natori, because if he did, he (Natsume) would end up getting involved in something troublesome. But the translation I read has it as: “I want to tell him, but it might not be good if exorcists learn about it. If I told him, he might get caught up in some trouble.”

   So my question is: how do you know Natsume is talking about Natori here and not himself? Is this just, context and stuff? maybe something like the more I read the more I’ll get better at discerning this kind of thing haha