How to translate this 点だった知識が線につながることを経験していただけたら幸いです

Question

How should I interpret this?

点だった知識が線につながることを経験していただけたら幸いです

In my mind, mostly it seems like, based on -tara:

If 《 condition 》, then you are fortunate.
Or: when 《 condition 》, I am fortunate.

On the other hand, I've also thought of it as, in a literal translation: When you have come to experience the point of knowledge as connected by the line, you are fortunate.

Google translate gives: I hope you will experience that the knowledge that was a point leads to a line.

Is there a different reading to 幸いです?

Also should I view koto as こと( 点だった知識が線につながる) or こと(線につながる)? As in, to what extent does koto nominalise the phrase?

Answer 1

～たら幸い【さいわい】です (or ～れば幸いです) literally means "it's fortunate if ～". But you should memorize this as a common set phrase that is usually translated into English as "I would appreciate if ～" or something along these lines. It is one of the politest ways to request something in Japanese, and people use this phrase mainly in business letters and formal invitations.

Google Translate's result ("I hope you will ～") is also correct, although it's a bit simplified.