thefridayfive (March)

1. Rice or potatoes?
I love potatoes! But I can't live without rice.

2. Fish or red meat?
Fish.

3. Salad or cooked vegetables?
Cooked veggies 100%. Salad is for fruit. XD

4. Cake or ice cream?
In this summer? Ice cream. But not until after I see my dentist. /o\

5. Water, soft drink, wine, beer, or hard alcohol?
Water. (My drink of choice is Arizona iced tea though...)

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1. What is your native heritage language?
Cebuano + a few basic phrases in Hokkien ("Have you eaten?" "What time are you coming home?") which I otherwise do not speak or understand. *laughs in biracial + diaspora + not really feeling like I fit in with any community*

Neither of which I can read or write in.

2. Do you speak any other languages? Which ones?
English, Tagalog, and a limited amount of Mandarin......... I have a broader vocabulary in these languages, as well as the capacity to read in them, but no fluency. Recently I realized that I can now understand a tiiiiny bit of Hiligaynon because I'm a serial eavesdropper and comment-reader.

3. How difficult is it for you to learn or understand new languages?
I don't really process things like difficulty because my learning processes have been so long and chaotic it's impossible to have any gauge for them, but speaking and constructing sentences are always hard. Even now I can't express myself in any language.

I have to say that in a lot of cases, language-learning is SO MUCH EASIER if you know English or any major languages... it's practically easy mode because of the amount of resources you can tap into. I often talk about this but learning Mandarin has been making Hokkien more accessible to me! And Mandarin, in turn, has been easier to learn since I know English.

Internet, smartphones and digital apps/dictionaries have also made language-learning so much more accessible than before! My Mandarin learning skyrocketed in the pandemic lololol. Ten years ago this would not have been possible for me.


4. If you were going to study a new foreign language, which would you want to learn?
I was studying Japanese a few years back, would love to get back into that.

5. How are you at reading subtitles in foreign films?
As someone who grew up on videogames and anime, I love subtitles in general. ♥ And I really like reading translations even for films in languages I know. It's fun and useful, especially since I'm not native-level in anything!

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1. What's a skill you'd like to learn?
I deeply want a sense of direction and the ability to process information and numbers.

2. What's a hobby you'd like to try?
Cycling, but I guess it's less of a hobby and more of a thing I wish was safe enough to try here. Maybe when I travel and am under the supervision of a friend haha.

3. What's the best compliment you've ever received?
Not really a compliment because I can't think of any off the cuff, just a recent thing that moved me - during our last get-together, a friend asked me if I still keep a blog or write reviews of things I watch because she liked reading my Livejournal... Which was how I found out that at some point Livejournal started sending e-mail notifications for friend updates!? I had terrible flashbacks of the entries I used to write lmfao like I'm so moved!!! But this is really embarrassing!

4. What's one way in which you are awesome?
I'm pretty good at visual communication! And I like learning how to use new graphics/editing apps, which helps me ~grow~. I fear the day I stop.

5. What's a gift you would like to receive (in case anyone asks)?
Money haha. A Kindle gift card (idk if that's a thing). The Herlock Sholmes game on the Switch. A lifetime Photoshop subscription so I don't ever have to stress about having my apps stop working. A bag of mini Cloud9s or Snickers. A Clickart set I can borrow for a week so I can decide whether I want it or not. Similarly, the full Affinity suite. XD