Kannadin

She does... But probably only because she doesn't know the ML is over 30. There's no "love triangle" because Hae Song knows how old he is and is basically looking at all these high schoolers as kids - as he should.

Chairwoman's daughter going to end with the other former model jerk of the student's council who is obnoxious but very obviously in love with her.

>_< Ok thanks.

So err... He had no non-BL projects lined up for 2025?

Wow that's pretty impressive ^^
Well I'm self-teaching myself 4 languages and it's already quite a hassle so I'm sticking to these four and that's it namely Korean, Japanese, Thai, Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

For Thai... That's a bit of a tough question...

Objectively the difficulty of a language depends more on how "far" the language you're learning is from your mother tongue.

Thai has a rather complicated alphabet system with high consonants, middle consonants and low consonants + a certain number of vowels.
Depending on whether there are accents, no accents and to which category the consonants belong ( depending on the category of the consonants one type of accent doesn't have the same effect), the tone used is different and compared to Chinese, vowels can be long and short... Depending on the length of the word sometimes a long syllable actually has to be pronounced short and so on.

So the first hurdle is: Pronounciation nightmare.

Second: All words are stuck together. Now Japanese and Chinese are the same... Everything is stuck BUT in Japanese you have grammatical words written in hiraganas to separate them and Chinese usually has words in one or two syllables. I've been studying the latter for almost 4 years now, and I've yet to encounter a word that's longer than 2 syllables, so it's pretty easy to distinguish words...

In thai, there's close to no punctuation. No coma no nothing. All words are stuck together but the issue is it is a pretty "simple language"... There's not that many words... Words are made by sticking existing words together... so it often means that basically you instinctively have to know if you read these words in one block or two... and the order can be switched.

I would have given you examples but it's getting late and I'm STRUGGLING with the thai keyboard. That's another annoying thing. 4 years of learning, and this hellish keyboard is still giving me headaches.
Oh ok just one then:
Let's say you have a random sentence I won't type and you come across this:

Blabla หน้าที่ Blabla
Do you read:
1 "หน้าที่" Naaatiii ==> Duty Blabla
or do you read
2 "หน้า ที่" Naaa Tiii ==> Head/Face that Blabla

Sometimes even if you encounter A = B+C+D+E and you start to read A as one word... you can get to the end and realize that the context tells you it's actually BC +DE or B +CD +E or BCD+E Well you get the drift.

Of course native speakers don't have that issue... but since you're learning new words at the same time... obviously you're going to have "fun".

What's really confusing in Thai is that Adjective can be Verbs/Adverbs/Name/counters even auxiliaries.

For instance, if you look up the word คอย you're going to find that it means "to wait" BUT คอย + Verb = to be doing.
Well multiply that for anything. And since there's no tense in thai they're quite important. And the issue is that due to lack of good free resources online... You often have to understand how the grammar works on your own.

Thai love to have words which have the same meaning stuck together. Often it means one is acting as a verb, the other as an adverb or an adjective of sorts. And that's were lies the biggest issue.

The way thai works... is a bit confusing for native western languages speakers... but that would be too long to explain here. Subjects are a bit confusing as well but not as much as all the points I've mentionned above.

I don't think Thai is a difficult language apart from its nightmarish alphabet and it's very challenging pronounciation. But if you're like me, not filthy rich, no teacher and learning solely on your own... It's extremelly complicated to find Good sources online to learn it that doesn't cost too much.

I've subscribed to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTLlGNIbsMnf8mMgznk1tZQ/videos

I occasionally watch his videos to get some explanations for when it's available. He is very thorough in his explanations but I'm not much of a grammar person. I'm the type that learns the basics of grammar, spends years practicing by watching, and reading and only bothers to dive deeply into it when I start to express myself... which I've only started to do with Korean and Japanese ( respectively 7+ and 6+ years of practice).

I also prefer written explanations over videos online. Biggest problem for free sources... is that they're all pretty bad. They're done by Thai people who speak English but most of them are struggling to explain the intricacies of their language to English speakers because English is a very complicated language for them with nuances that just don't exist in their languages. How can you explain how to say something that just don't exist in your language or doesn't have any equivalent in your language when you're struggling with English yourself? (That said, I'm talking about free sources online not proper trained Thai teachers)

The channel I gave you is different... I think he has some pdf you can buy that aren't that expensive but I've got no money right now so that's a pass for me.

Anyway, be sure to tell me if you decide to give it a try.
Gotta sleep now >_<

PS: Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try to find the movie online ^^

Seriously this racist islamophobic troll had been stalking this thread for several days WHY DO PEOPLE ANSWER THEIR POSTS?
Only a pea-brain idiot would believe this individual is Muslim.

Just report their damn post!! By engaging with this lunatic who is creating accounts after accounts to spread hate, you're literally giving them what they want...

Geez.

Err sorry simple question.
I don't follow gossips or BL ships or whatever. I only care about dramas. I was checking out this page because I remember having seen a trailer for an upcoming BL with that other actor in Kidnap (which I've just started). I understand their ship is dead in the water but... err...

Does anyone know if Ohm has other dramas expected for this year...? I don't care about BLs, I just want to know if he's going to act, after all, most of his roles so far have been non-BLs ( there's a fair number I want to watch) so it's not like his carreer is reduced to just that so how come there's nothing listed?

Unless there's some scandal I don't know about?

Lol I think nobody gives a fudge about the mystery part. We're here for the highschool shenanigans...But it sure is going to take a backsit for the last 4 episodes. They've got to wrap up that storyline properly... If they'd made it into a 16 episodes series, we would have have some more fun with Hae Song and his ridiculous side quests (these dance moves🤣🤣🤣) and my favorite side couple in the history of all K-dramas... but alas... It's 12 episodes... so 4 mostly serious episodes incomming sadly.

Though I hope I'm wrong.

I guess she adds a sense of "urgency, danger and stakes" to the gold search... It counterbalances the comedic tone, I just feel they're a bit heavy-handed on the creepiness. It doesn't remove my enjoyment of the show... but I've got to admit I almost skipped her scenes as well.

Wow thank you for the long reply, that was really interesting ^^

1. I didn't have the font so I used google image to see how it looked like. I was expecting something much more complicated but it looked pretty simple... Nothing like the nightmare of the Thai alphabet. Honestly the Spanish could have made some efforts into learning it.

2. I'm guessing for the vowels sounds you're doing like in many languages. Combine vowels to transcribe different vowel sounds?

3. I had to look up the terms "code-mixing" and "code-switching" because I didn't know them.

The code-switching seems like a huge headache to me, but certainly a very good mental exercise on a daily basis... If I understood clearly the definition that's switching between Filipino and Philippines English in conversation... I'm not mentionning regional dialect since they're regional.

Code-mixing though sounds pretty natural to me and I think that's definitely something you'd find in all former colonies. My own parents always talk to me using what we call "Francalche" a mix of "Français" - French and "Malgache" - Malagasy/Gasy.

A sentence like this: " Let me tusok-tusok the fishball. " is literally what I grew up hearing on a daily basis, though younger malagasy people tend to use way more malasy than French in their sentence due to France leaving and the educational system going down the drain.
I'd give you some examples if I could... but I only understand the language orally I can't read nor write it.

I don't really know a lot about all the differences between all these versions of English to be honest. Most of my teachers when I was young have been taught British English, but in practice I use more American English. It's interesting you're mentionning that Phillipines English is recognized as another official form of English...

I don't think we "recognize" anything in "La Francophonie" ( that's what we call all countries which have French as an official language, most of them former colonies). They obviously all have some regional specificities but I'm not really sure France officiallizes anything. Switzerland and Belgium also have French as an official language, but honestly even if there's some differences, they don't get any specific names.

I found your first two examples pretty funny ... in the sense that it's crazy how languages evolve. English, although considered a germanic language has 29% of its words made out of French and 29% made from latin based word ( French being latin based) . Simple words such as "to enjoy" actually came from French:

To enjoy = from the french word "enjoyer" ( no longer used) which literally means to be "in joy" - "en joie" "Joie" being the modern way of writting "Joy" in ancient French. Pronounciation Jo-a.
Occasionally you might hear "enjailler" as a slang term to say "to enjoy"... Nobody really knows if it came from a deformation of the English "to enjoy" or if from the verb "jaillir"... I also heard it came from Congolese French...

"Color" and "Colour" actually came from the old French "Colour/Color" initially from the latin "Color"... these days we use "Couleur" in French ( "ou" is 우 and the "eu" sound sounds like the เอิอ in thai... Both ways of writing are indeed pretty much valid from a historical standpoint...

"Centre" is the original writting of "Center". Again a French word. But I guess pretty difficult for an English tongue so the pronounciation probably has evolved to become "Center". Seems to me British-English sticks to the roots, American-English sticks to the pronounciation... And now you're telling me Fillipinos give both these spelling different use 🤣🤣🤣

All your talk about switching languages and the differences in use of subjects... Pretty complicated and confusing for somebody who intends to learn your languages... But I can't help thinking that's a definite advantage when you're trying to learn another language because your brains are just used to all that "mental gymnastics" so to speak.

I'll have to try another time a Fillipino drama one of these days... You've got me intrigued :D

Anyway thanks again for your explanations, that was truly insightful 😎

The chairwoman is become creepier every episodes. She's such a psycho, I'm having trouble with her scenes... They feel so... HEAVY.
Hopefully ep 8 was just to show us how crazy she is.... and we don't have see her as much from now on.

See lol. You literally have a whole schedule ^^

Last month I was following 3 airing K-dramas (all on the weekends ) I could barely keep up. Found the whole process tiring so I've decided now... only 1 airing k drama IF I'm interested. 2 episodes a week is quite a lot when you start to pile them up and I just don't have enough time.

I don't mind waiting. Viki's release is on the following day but usually when I wake up it's already available so I just watch the new episode eating my breakfast. Best way to start the day ^^ And let's just say that I also know where to download HQ releases online when needed. ^^

Lolz. I'm watching it tomorrow when the episode will be available on Viki... But I couldn't resist and spoiled myself :D

Oh that's interesting ^^
Side question: Wasn't the Philippines colonized by the US at some point? There might have been a former alphabet with the proper sounds that might have been wiped out by the colonists...

Both my parents were born in Madagascar and if you've ever met a person from that country, they usually have long ass names that are just impossible to pronounce if you're not familiar with the language ( both my parents are mixed from both sides so they actually have short names that are not of malagasy origins.)... I personally don't speak malagasy though I do have some notions and one time I just got curious of WHY the spelling was such a nightmare.

Turns out before France colonized it, there used to have another alphabet that looked a lot like arabic... But since colonists wouldn't bother to learn the languages of the country they invaded ( what's the point of learning the languages of some savages huh?), they forced French as the first language in schools and the malagasy alphabet just disappeared.

Sad but very common story. The issue is, if you adopt the roman system... then it must be adapted to your language, otherwise you won't ever be able to have proper transcriptions:

Spanish have some specific characters, French has some specific characters, Vietnamese has some specific characters and so on... I never came across Filipino writing but based on what you wrote, it's the basic 26 letters with no specific characters hence the issue when transcribing specific sounds that are unique to your language.

On a side note, I tried watching a Filipino series once but gave up. I was just very annoyed。 I don't understand the language so I needed subs... BUT there was a LOT of English mixed... and I HATE to read subs when I understand what people are saying, especially when sometimes the English subs didn't even correspond to the characters were saying... Problem is my eyes just go to the subs when there're subs. Anyway, I struggled for something like two episodes and gave up.

Do you always mix that much English in your speech or was it something specific to that particular drama?

Yes ^^ It's available.

I think you must have more shows... but probably old shows. Sometimes I'm looking for old show dating back to 2015 prior and I often get the "this show is not available in your region" ^^

But again, I can't even keep up with everything that is airing NOW let alone old shows...

Preview for ep 9 says you're right. If you watch it, apparently he didn't say something to Hae Song because of .... reason not said in the preview... But apparently he's not the traitor so that must the big boss I guess.

Preview for ep 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T50yUSVKbww

Ah Ok. That's a US thing then. In Europe only the "Free" (with practically nothing) and "Standard" is available... From what you wrote, basically the Standard in Europe is the equivalent of the "plus" in the US.

Kokowa... is a bit of a peculiar case. Most shows from Kokowa are available with the Standard option here... But I've noticed since last year that a couple of shows are not available on Viki in Europe at ALL such as currently airing Kick Kick Kick, and Nothing Uncovered which aired last year. I personally don't care aboutwatching these shows so, not a big loss... And there's all these K-movies that Kokowa has... I'm not really sure but I think it's possible to pay for them individually here.

Not into movies that much so don't care either.
Anyway. Not really fair for you. But if you get the "plus" for the same price at the "standard" here well, that's okay I guess.

Hmm. Your comment is regarding relationship representations in general though. The issue I think is more regarding young viewers. Dramas are selling you a fantasy, as long as people are aware that this type of relationship is extremely rare in real life ( honestly I've met some couples who married their first love, still together even in their 60s and living the good life with a couple of disputes here and there but literally very much drama style love, so I know it exists... It's just the exception not the rule) I think it's pretty ok.