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日本語で[続]{つづ}きをよむならてつだいますよ！
[続]{つづ}きをよんでほしいです
I'm confused about tsuzuki and nara. Going by it's definition of continuation... it doesn't really make much sense to me plus the conditional...
I get the sentence in essence is her wanting to help me learn to read but I don't properly understand it.
The context is; she is a penpal and is responding to a comment I made about why I want to learn to read Japanese.
Maybe writing it out with all needed Kanjis would help:
日本語で続きを読むなら手伝いますよ！
"If you read the rest in Japanese then I will lend you a hand."
With this, in the next sentence, she's saying:
続きを読んでほしいです。
"I want you to read the rest."
Some points:
続き： Remember that this is a noun, not a verb, meaning the remaining, the following, the continuation, etc.
なら： This is the conditional, as you mentioned.
More breakdown:
読む: To read
続きを読む: Read the remaining
日本語で続きを読む: Read the remaining in Japanese
日本語で続きを読むなら: If you read the remaining in Japanese
... etc.
