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[arisha]

Last night I learned of the K-pop group Kara through a random comment someone made in a MoMusu forum, and today I have had their song "Wanna" on REPEAT. I have no idea why I love this song so much, but omg, I kinda do. (Even if the video uses that "hey let's go destroy my ex's stuff" trope that leaves such a bad taste in my mouth.)

Anyway, I am only letting myself get into K-pop if I can put on hold my desire to study Korean. (That writing system just seems like the coolest thing to me!) I'm supposed to be passing the JLPT in two months!!! And somehow keeping up with my Spanish as well, somehow ... Studying multiple languages was so much easier when I had classes in both of them. I was looking at the list of language tutors on the UVic web site today, but before I get a tutor I should probably decide what I'd want from them, haha. Because I mean, it's not like I have specific homework they could help me with or anything. :/ Or maybe I should just start making use of all those language-learning sites I've signed up for in the past, hahaha, oh man I'm so disorganized.

I did study some JLPT grammar yesterday, though! So. There's that. :) Oddly enough I've been doing better on this workbook's kanji pages than on its grammar pages, something I definitely did not expect! I am a grammar fangirl, hahaha.

In other news, I find this fandom!secret kind of sad but also amusing, because it's so different from my life! Pretty sure when the_wykydtron and I go see a play, as soon as intermission hits we're already discussing gender. Especially when we went to see "The Fantasticks," which was ... interesting. D:

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[shounenarisu.livejournal.com]

- Oh, man, I want to learn Korean too. I can already read and write Hangul, and I have some knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, but yeah, I'm trying to put it on hold too until I can put more energy into it. I'd love to learn Spanish better too. Oh, man. But I know it won't work, taking on too much. I have to slow down tito. Right now I'm mainly focussing on reading Japanese novels.

But I was thinking of buying ペ・ヨンジュンと学ぶ韓国語DS. Tempted.

- Yeah, I always note the messages on gender, race, etc. in media too, lol. Although, I think it might be a little awkward if I were in the situation the secret described. I can see how saying, 'Oh btw the play you were part of is incredibly sexist' could potentially lead to some friction, depending on the situation/person.

[arisha.livejournal.com]

haha, good to know I am not the only one in this situation! xD Although my knowledge of Korean so far basically amounts to a poor pronounciation of the word for "hello," which I ... don't even know how to type, lol. That's awesome that you can read and write Hangul! So far I've just been admiring it from afar. x)

And I kind of love that that DS game exists. I looked up some screencaps from it and it definitely looks more useful than the "Learn Chinese with Morning Musume" phrasebook I have, haha. If you do end up getting it, let me know what you think! I'm pretty interested in how the DS can be used for language learning. (I have a couple kanji practice games for it which I love.)

also!

[arisha.livejournal.com]

slow down tito

I love this joke to the point of having to stop myself from using it offline (I change tactics halfway through and pretend I was going for the "slooooow doooooown" joke from the Powerthirst commercials, hahaha oh my life), but I think this is the first time it's made its way into my LJ! xD xD xD