ElementalStar:
My chinese lessons are paying off. I understand about 30% of Private Galaxy's 2 episodes. Luckily I had my auto translator on for the rest. 😆
Gosh, I'm jealous I grew up in a bilingual house so I'm already fluent in two languages (English being one of them ofc) but I would love to watch a K-drama without subs one day...
RXinw:
Guess whose Birthday it is today - May 1
THIS GUY 🥳
Another chapter of my 20s has just begun, and I am certainly hotter than ever 😝 jawline, handsome face, sexy body and a dirty mind for days 🤭
Happy Birthday! Hope you do something fun! One of these days someone will see your magnificent qualities and fall for you. I’m convinced.
Gabster:
My chinese lessons are paying off. I understand about 30% of Private Galaxy's 2 episodes. Luckily I had my auto translator on for the rest. 😆
Gosh, I'm jealous I grew up in a bilingual house so I'm already fluent in two languages (English being one of them ofc) but I would love to watch a K-drama without subs one day...
I'm jealous, too. I've been working on Chinese for a few years, mainly on Duolingo and HelloChinese, but I can understand depressingly little. (I know some limited Japanese, which helps with recognising some of the Chinese hanzi, but as to pronunciation, the connection from Chinese to Japanese on-yomi is more theoretical than any practical help.)
Is your other language Hebrew? I love languages, and Hebrew is so uniquely fascinating as really the only example of an ancient and effectively dead everyday language (i.e. except for liturgical and scholarly use) which has come back as a vibrant and living language. I tried a bit on Duolingo, but it's quite difficult. (Sorry, getting off the BL track. I'll stop now.)
dora:
For anyone interested, this is the clip about pronouncing “Aou”. She has ones for other names as well, and some other Thai language stuff from BLs.
Thanks it's really useful.
p43425:
Today is Busy BL Friday - but of the eight (!) series with episodes airing today ("Contrast", "Love Upon A Time", "Fact Fact Lips", "Feel What You Feel", "Love Of Silom", "OF2: Dream On", "Sammy's Children's Day" and "Sweet Blood"), I'm currently only watching the first three.
For this busy day I will finish Sammy's children's day, then watch the new episode of OFDO, then Fake Fact Lips, and binge watch Contrast since the episodes are short. If I have time I will also watch Love of Silom.
Actually, my biggest issue with S2 was why they called it "Love Class 2", as it had almost no overlap or similarity with the first "Love Class", and it's not like S1 was such a great success.
Strangely, I have watched season 2 without watching the first one maybe because of the ratings. I remember liking the most one of the "supporting couple".
Guess whose Birthday it is today - May 1
THIS GUY 🥳
Happy birthday ! Hope you have a great day and a great year !🥳
Indie Art Girl:
Yes May birthdays unite!!
🥳🥳🥳
I enjoyed it I thought it was going to be more like High and Low but with romance, so there were less fighting than expected. I agree with Dora they seems to old to be in high school. I liked the romance part and I was glad to see the actors again. Nothing mindblowing but since it's only 1 hour 40 it's worth watching for me, I know I would haved rated lower if it was more than 2 hours. 8/10
I tried a bit on Duolingo, but it's quite difficult. (Sorry, getting off the BL track. I'll stop now.)
(Getting off the BL track as well) I don't disagree with you, Hebrew is quite challenging. Even people who grew up speaking only Heb mess up a bit. There are a few confusing rules, for example: a large percentage of words are either male or female, and some can switch depending on how you use them in a sentence.
Okay, back to BL :)
Tina:
I've read 2 fics in the past 4 days! Both YiZhan fics. One was 140k words long, the other 50k words.
Basically almost 200k words in just 4 days. I love it. I'm going to read more as soon as I get to watch Sammy's Children's Day till the finale and also Contrast's last episode, a JBL I started a while back.
This week is so relaxing, I love reading but what I love most is fanfics! Especially ones that are long and full of yearning, longing, and a bit of angst. ;_; The best ever!
Wow long fics , i rarely do but any good recommendations? ,what genre do you read and where do you read them
I have 2 bl novels which are still in my waiting list so im trying to find some time to read/check them
I find myself often playing games while my WL is packed, i probably need to reduce it in order to add the new bls of May
Hebrew is so uniquely fascinating as really the only example of an ancient and effectively dead everyday language (i.e. except for liturgical and scholarly use) which has come back as a vibrant and living language.
I had some Hebrew classes for a while and it was HARD!! I'm bad with languages so I struggled the most. I was the only native English speaker. Everyone else already had a few languages mastered.
Anyways,on to BL - I came here to mention May BLs: There's also Check Into You that's expected to release in May so that brings the total to at least 13! Still no drama page that I can see.
LueurArcane:
Wow long fics , i rarely do but any good recommendations? ,what genre do you read and where do you read them
Genre? I just go for Xiao Zhan x Wang Yibo fics on ao3.
What I read this week is:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/27233851
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28503486
These two fics.
I love some angst and yearning.
I'm watching Sammy's Children's Day right now. I'm afraid it's another 10 out of 10 for me. Two more episodes left aaah
