I really like the cadence of spoken Korean, but unlike German (simple conversational), French (train station, basic directions, enough to politely say I don’t speak French), Spanish (about the same), and Russian, Arabic, Italian, even Japanese (a few basic pleasantries), I literally don’t speak a single word of it. I find that when I hear a foreign language where I can pick up even one or two words here or there, my brain kind of sets it aside and says, “okay, that’s comprehensible, and so I don’t need to worry about it”, but with languages where I know nothing, it demands my constant attention.
I like Squid Game so far, but I find it a little harder to sit though than most subtitled shows.
