Linh was a final-year student majoring in Italian. She loved the language but detested the dry, repetitive vocabulary apps.
One evening, out of boredom, she was scrolling through OVFRIENDS and saw a profile with the bio: “My soul lives in the Laputa Castle. And yours?”
It was Chiara, an Italian girl. Her profile was filled with images from Studio Ghibli films. Linh boldly sent a message, starting with a clumsy Italian sentence about the movie “Spirited Away”.
They instantly connected.
From that moment on, Linh’s Italian learning journey took a new turn. They would spend entire evenings playfully arguing in Italian, constantly looking up words in the dictionary just to prove their points.