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An extremely weird recurring theme for me is: I start learning a new language, I read/watch/listen to a lot of stuff in said language, I get really into various cultural stuff, someone decides to make fun of me about it. Like. Can they... Not?
Listen, I know I'm often embarrassingly into things! It's a feature! I know it's probably hilarious to call me a koreaboo while I listen to music in Korean and watch Korean shows and talk about them a lot and so on but consider: how the fuck else am I supposed to learn a language
Like. Cultural background study is super important for learning a language??? You...you have to do that or you'll totally miss a bunch of stuff. You can't actually learn a language just reading a grammar textbook and making flashcards of kitchen utensil vocabulary.
I know people can't bear the thought that people know they like things, I know it gives them second hand embarrassment when I totally fail to be embarrassed about liking kpop or donghua or BL manga, and I know it's possible to be weirdly, racistly into these things.
But I'm never ever gonna know if I really do pull some white gaze bullshit because actually doing the reading/listening immersion and cultural studies part of language learning is inherently cringey apparently *sigh*.
This would be why English speakers suck at languages.
This would be why English speakers suck at languages.
Anyway, with that rant it's time to do my Chinese flashcards.
Also if anyone has c-drama recs where the plot either is very easy to follow or isn't that important, that'd be handy: I want something to watch while I knit where I don't have to constantly pause and look up words.
Also if anyone has c-drama recs where the plot either is very easy to follow or isn't that important, that'd be handy: I want something to watch while I knit where I don't have to constantly pause and look up words.
