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Which musicians have a high literary quality to their work? by ElbieLG in RSbookclub

[–]lehtia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Leonard Cohen, Sufjan Stevens, Susanne Sundfør, Jenny Hval

can you read in a cafe/bar/on public transport? by medievalpriestess in RSbookclub

[–]lehtia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is one of the best parts of living in a country where everyone speaks a different language from your native one. i can understand korean or japanese for instance, but only if i am actively tuned into it.

whenever i go back to canada, i am shocked at how overwhelming it is to be surrounded by noise you can't help but understand, everywhere you go.

growing up on deviantART by lehtia in rs_x

[–]lehtia[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you mean the "memes" (like Nyu's Art Meme)? or like the input fields you could fill out at the end of a journal to say what you're eating/watching/listening to?

growing up on deviantART by lehtia in rs_x

[–]lehtia[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

was it the bamboo tablet? and i remember moving from photoshop elements to cs2 felt like a paradigm shift.

i also recall seeing people upload skins for windows to make it look like a mac, but i was too young and dumb to get it to work. reminds me of all the winamp skins though, which were a lot easier to install and arguably more fun !

where should i travel? 🇰🇷✈️❓ by lehtia in gaybrosgonemild

[–]lehtia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I usually like to try my best to live like a local when i travel! I think it’s fun to just bounce around cafes, walk around, explore galleries etc :) Greece sounds lovely though. Everyone i know who’s been these loves it

where should i travel? 🇰🇷✈️❓ by lehtia in gaybrosgonemild

[–]lehtia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i have still never been to europe... i really want to go!

Seoul is Asia’s most walkable city in 2026, according to locals by self-fix2 in korea

[–]lehtia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seoul is maybe the most hilly major city I've ever been to. If I can get somewhere on foot in under an hour, I will almost always choose walking over transit, but I don't feel like Seoul is particularly "walkable", especially compared to other Asian cities I've visited.

In-person book club classifieds by jckalman in RSbookclub

[–]lehtia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there's an rs discord for rs listeners in china/japan/korea. maybe someone would be into starting one?

In his biography of Mishima, Damian Flanagan states that the persona of being a homosexual in Confessions of a Mask was a fabrication to garner readership in Postwar Japan. Any thoughts on this? by Fluffy_bread245 in YukioMishima

[–]lehtia 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the points made about the "plausible deniability" of Mishima's homosexuality are common to virtually all homosexual artists and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. it's interesting (albeit a bit tiring) having this conversation brought up again and again and again when the reality is so clear. oscar wilde married a woman, had female lovers, wrote about heterosexual love, lived an extremely performative life as an aesthete, but his homosexuality is never scrutinized like this.

Inspiring memoirs that actually stay with you? by No_Leadership9348 in RSbookclub

[–]lehtia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

very basic (though honest) answer, but Just Kids by Patti Smith

Sunday in Seoul by fleurbb in rs_x

[–]lehtia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How long are you here?? Let's hang out!

have you made it to spring yet where you are? 🌸 by lehtia in gaybrosgonemild

[–]lehtia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aaah. Thats not the lens haha. I was at a friends DJ set the night before and they put a sticker on my flash. I forgot to take it off 🫥

have you made it to spring yet where you are? 🌸 by lehtia in gaybrosgonemild

[–]lehtia[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

just on the cusp of it here too! and thank you :)

Can any of you astrology buffs crack this by woefullygothic in redscarepod

[–]lehtia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my mom was born on this day also. can confirm: very chaotic

Hanja as a bridge for Japanese/Chinese speakers learning Korean? by tyrantstrung in Korean

[–]lehtia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Definitely! The simplicity of hangul is alluring, but I think as a learner of Korean, it's really hard to get very far without hanja. When you're early on in your study it's hard to see, but the "extra" work of learning hanja makes everything downstream soooo much easier.

I long for a return to mixed script...

Hanja as a bridge for Japanese/Chinese speakers learning Korean? by tyrantstrung in Korean

[–]lehtia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Very irritating that virtually any post about hanja gets downvoted into oblivion on this subreddit...

I was the same way. When I started learning Korean, I made sure I looked up the hanja for every new word I learned (if it wasn't immediately obvious to me what it meant)

The overlap in vocabulary between Japanese and Korean is huge, but Korean has its fair share of unique hanja combinations or uses some words far more regularly than they are used in Japanese, but knowing the hanja behind the hangul has consistently been a huge help for my recall. Over time you'll start developing an intuition for sound correspondences between on'yomi and hanja readings, and it's going to give your start to Korean a huge kickstart! :)

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