haha hi!! sorry for seeing this late,,, i am actually very touched that like. someone thought to send me a retrospring ask this weekend!! even though i was comparatively pretty quiet 😅😅

and if i may be honest, i was just lucky to be born into a situation where i grew up learning english and mandarin chinese at home and in school/classes?? which translated really easily into learning korean, a language that has (an at-times surprising amount of) loan-words from both those two languages, and a comparably Much easier writing system than chinese....... so i just learned how to read korean on my own, and then like. well i wanted to watch a few variety shows As they came out, rather than wait a week for english subs, so i just. muddled my way through, since the topics they'll discuss are pretty limited, and therefore easy to understand after a while! so if anything, my knowledge of korean (and chinese, tbh) is heavily affected by the content i consume in those languages; i honestly would barely know how to talk about the weather in either. but conversations around idol-fan culture,,,,, i'm there. i'm eavesdropping. i know what people are talking about (my mom gets kinda weirded out when i know idol slang ""out of nowhere"" hhhhh)