So, after bombarding husband, family and friends with my Asian dramas obsession, and miserably failing, I FINALLY convinced my mother to watch K2H with me! 
She never was averse to the idea, she just has problems reading the subtitles because they are too small and she says she's too slow.
Clearly, although she speaks some English she's far from fluent and my carefully laid out plan had to include the translation of the subs. Done so, spent the whole afternoon translating episode 1&2 (by the way, in doing so I came across little details of the dialogues which I didn't notice while watching. Hard work always has its rewards, it seems, hehe).
I was to read her the subs while watching in a sort of atrocious dubbing which made me foresee disaster.
And the beginning was such. I translated the subs, but saved them in the wrong format, so that my tv couldn't read them. After various unsuccessful attempts, in the end I had to load the english ones. I was already imagining myself not only "dubbing", but doing an improbable simultaneous translation. Yeah right, I'll be knackered. :p
But it went wonderfully! Not only my mom read the subs herself - clever girl - but she was hooked on episode 1. She's also harbouring a crush on Lee Seung Gi/Jae Ha, to which I had to place a clamp on and warn her that the guy goes through various degrees of jerkiness before a respectable woman can lose her heart on him.
She seemed unconvinced, but promised me to be cautious.
We have established a routine and she's coming over every Sunday to watch 2 episodes. She bid me goodbye with a very girly: "ohhhh, I'm so thrilled. Who knew Koreans were so beautiful?"
She never was averse to the idea, she just has problems reading the subtitles because they are too small and she says she's too slow.
Clearly, although she speaks some English she's far from fluent and my carefully laid out plan had to include the translation of the subs. Done so, spent the whole afternoon translating episode 1&2 (by the way, in doing so I came across little details of the dialogues which I didn't notice while watching. Hard work always has its rewards, it seems, hehe).
I was to read her the subs while watching in a sort of atrocious dubbing which made me foresee disaster.
And the beginning was such. I translated the subs, but saved them in the wrong format, so that my tv couldn't read them. After various unsuccessful attempts, in the end I had to load the english ones. I was already imagining myself not only "dubbing", but doing an improbable simultaneous translation. Yeah right, I'll be knackered. :p
But it went wonderfully! Not only my mom read the subs herself - clever girl - but she was hooked on episode 1. She's also harbouring a crush on Lee Seung Gi/Jae Ha, to which I had to place a clamp on and warn her that the guy goes through various degrees of jerkiness before a respectable woman can lose her heart on him.
She seemed unconvinced, but promised me to be cautious.
We have established a routine and she's coming over every Sunday to watch 2 episodes. She bid me goodbye with a very girly: "ohhhh, I'm so thrilled. Who knew Koreans were so beautiful?"
amrita828 wrote: So, after bombarding husband, family and friends with my Asian dramas obsession, and miserably failing, I FINALLY convinced my mother to watch K2H with me!
She never was averse to the idea, she just has problems reading the subtitles because they are too small and she says she's too slow.
Clearly, although she speaks some English she's far from fluent and my carefully laid out plan had to include the translation of the subs. Done so, spent the whole afternoon translating episode 1&2 (by the way, in doing so I came across little details of the dialogues which I didn't notice while watching. Hard work always has its rewards, it seems, hehe).
I was to read her the subs while watching in a sort of atrocious dubbing which made me foresee disaster.
And the beginning was such. I translated the subs, but saved them in the wrong format, so that my tv couldn't read them. After various unsuccessful attempts, in the end I had to load the english ones. I was already imagining myself not only "dubbing", but doing an improbable simultaneous translation. Yeah right, I'll be knackered. :p
But it went wonderfully! Not only my mom read the subs herself - clever girl - but she was hooked on episode 1. She's also harbouring a crush on Lee Seung Gi/Jae Ha, to which I had to place a clamp on and warn her that the guy goes through various degrees of jerkiness before a respectable woman can lose her heart on him.
She seemed unconvinced, but promised me to be cautious.
We have established a routine and she's coming over every Sunday to watch 2 episodes. She bid me goodbye with a very girly: "ohhhh, I'm so thrilled. Who knew Koreans were so beautiful?"
I love this whole post!!! Especially the last sentence. "Who knew Koreans were so beautiful?" Well said, Rita's Momma...Very Well Said!
