✖ language barrier — amber & joy
Amber was a whiz at lots of things, science, math; smart as anything but there’s always that one thing that you just cant wrap your head around sometimes. For her it was Korean. She wasn’t necessarily bad but her grammar needed some work if she was going to be speaking on TV with native speakers. For some reason she just couldn’t get it down! A sigh left her as she made her way to a class of a different language, Mandarin Chinese, which thankfully her parents had bestowed some knowledge of upon her. She was born of Chinese parents, so it was a given that they would teach their child the language, Amber having grown up speaking an okay amount for growing up in America.
She sat down next to another girl that had seemed to be struggling with reading the characters scrawled about a sheet of paper. She was reading it aloud with an accent that was more or less Korean so it was assumed she was Korean herself, Amber not knowing if she should help her as she was much better at speaking the language than reading it. She simply watched and took out her own notes for the time being while they waited for the teacher to arrive, jotting down what was on the whiteboard at the front of the class.