The scale and range that she makes her way through in just this one song are intense and give all the feels. I still get goosebumps every time.
I used to love kpop because I enjoyed the audiovisual beauty (the songs and the weird but wonderful video clips). So I learnt Korean and now I can't stand most kpop because understanding what they are singing almost always kills it 😅🤣
Omg bahahaha that’s so cool you learned it though! I have pretty beginner Chinese skills and one of my life goals is to get fluent🤞
I'm intermediate and I also want to be fluent enough to work at a high level in Korea. As it stands now, I can have conversations on a wide array of topics as long as no one gets too technical.
Funny story, Arirang mentions Mt Hallasan, so when I was going up Hallasan in a taxi I suddenly burst into that part of the song and it led to the wildest conversation with the taxi driver. He pushed my skills to the limit because he got technical but I laugh about that conversation every time I remember it.
I see you have some kidney stone issues in the comments here. Don't give yourself a hard time for not being able to do stuff right now, they're painful and a perfectly acceptable reason to be unproductive. But if you want to be productive you could passively listen to some Chinese content while lying down, music, a podcast, watch some YouTube. That's a part of how I got to where I am with Korean, a long-term pain condition. Because I have had it for so long I know that when in pain I don't want to learn Korean (that takes too much mental energy), but fun stuff that exposes you to the language is still beneficial for learning.
That is so interesting! I suppose if we didn’t have the times where we had to slow down, we wouldn’t be able to indulge in special interests like learning a language or playing an instrument and something that begins as just indulging in an interest, becomes a new skill that improves our life in some way.
Yes! Everyone here has said it... Slowing down, relaxing, and indulging special interests are actually important. Those random things that don't feel like "being productive" can take you places you never imagined. So... Do your best to go easy on yourself and try to enjoy your downtime, difficult as it may be.
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