>>16365930I really wouldn't expect her to be so good or quick at picking up korean (as to, an actual somewhat fluent improvisational speaking level, not just parroting a few memorized 101 stock phrases) as she was with japanese back in ze day.
First of all just for the simple natural fact that you tend learn things faster when you're younger and your brain generally slows down as you age (and yeah, we may not think of late twenties vs teenager being much of a difference, but neurologically it really does matter for skill aquisition ease).
Second, we only have a really limited "sample size" to say if she's "actually gifted" at picking up languages, or just "got lucky once" with japanese due to special circumstances. That came at a time in her life when she was HIGHLY motivated to learn japanese, due to being a gigaweeb and eventually wanting to make it in Japan as an idol. So she "practiced" it by basically brute force, what with having talking streams for hours almost daily on nnd, and this sort of disciplined repetition is key (especially when you're an amateur self-learner and don't go through a structured formal class setting), and then of course she capped it off by actually living in Japan for a good while, so getting a heavy dose of immersion to further ingrain the language in her.
With korean, her motivation is on much more volatile ground. Nevermind the fact that nowadays she simply doesn't have the time to do the same full-on brute force learning method she did successfully with japanese, and maybe she's also not the type to learn well with formal instruction either, her motivation is almost solely reliant on the recent influx of korean viewers and her wanting to pander to them. But should they not stick around (and going from past experiences of similar fotm meme audiences and foreigner pump'n'dumps with other chubas, you have to at least consider it a probable possibility), her main reason for learning goes poof, and with it her motivation to stick around expending the effort to "waste time" on something that doesn't bring the "reward" (attention from target audience) anymore and she'd go back to her default state of watching netflix with cats instead.
