Last Friday I was ambushed by a stomach bug and spent most of the weekend in bed. I was feeling too lethargic to do any reading or writing, so I was browsing around online, looking for some mental candy floss. On a whim, I chose a currently airing Taiwanese drama, called 'Refresh Man'. It's been a few years since I watched any movies or dramas from Taiwan, but I remembered them as being light, sweet and wonderfully innocent. Just the tonic for a girl who's feeling wretched.
Oh boy, did I land on a good 'un! I marathoned the first eight episodes but sadly, now I'm all caught up and will have to wait for each weekly installment like everyone else. Le sigh. In the meantime, I have the ending credits theme song firmly lodged in my brain. Which is fine, because it's a gorgeous song........but it's also a Chinese song. And I don't speak Chinese.
The language I am actually trying to learn is Korean, and having mumbled Chinese running through my brain does not help. Though, I have noticed over the last few days that when I'm not paying attention, my subconscious plays the song and shoehorns random Korean phrases into it.
So there's that.
In a desperate bid to get the song out of my system, I decided to try and transcribe the lyrics, learn the damn thing, and try to move on. Which led to this conversation last night:
Me: Jeez! This romanised Chinese........almost every vowel has a flipping squiggle over it!
Ms.Amused: Are you learning Chinese?!
Me: (defensively) No! It's just one song!
Ms.Amused: (laughs) It's just one song! I can quit anytime I like!
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Heh. She has a point. The evidence against me is pretty damning. I rarely go on holiday without swallowing the phrase book first, my weekly Korean class is at 1am (because my teacher is in Korea) and I think it's totally worth it, and just a few days ago, I went into the Google Play Store to looking for a particular app for my mum and ended up downloading three Korean language learning apps for myself instead!
So yeah, Ms. Amused is probably right. It's only a matter of time before I properly tackle Chinese.
Especially if I keep watching these adorable Taiwanese dramas! ;)
And here is the song that started this whole train of thought, 'Think of You First', from 'Refresh Man':
Oh boy, did I land on a good 'un! I marathoned the first eight episodes but sadly, now I'm all caught up and will have to wait for each weekly installment like everyone else. Le sigh. In the meantime, I have the ending credits theme song firmly lodged in my brain. Which is fine, because it's a gorgeous song........but it's also a Chinese song. And I don't speak Chinese.
The language I am actually trying to learn is Korean, and having mumbled Chinese running through my brain does not help. Though, I have noticed over the last few days that when I'm not paying attention, my subconscious plays the song and shoehorns random Korean phrases into it.
So there's that.
In a desperate bid to get the song out of my system, I decided to try and transcribe the lyrics, learn the damn thing, and try to move on. Which led to this conversation last night:
Me: Jeez! This romanised Chinese........almost every vowel has a flipping squiggle over it!
Ms.Amused: Are you learning Chinese?!
Me: (defensively) No! It's just one song!
Ms.Amused: (laughs) It's just one song! I can quit anytime I like!
***********
Heh. She has a point. The evidence against me is pretty damning. I rarely go on holiday without swallowing the phrase book first, my weekly Korean class is at 1am (because my teacher is in Korea) and I think it's totally worth it, and just a few days ago, I went into the Google Play Store to looking for a particular app for my mum and ended up downloading three Korean language learning apps for myself instead!
So yeah, Ms. Amused is probably right. It's only a matter of time before I properly tackle Chinese.
Especially if I keep watching these adorable Taiwanese dramas! ;)
And here is the song that started this whole train of thought, 'Think of You First', from 'Refresh Man':
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