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The lengths to which people go to speak a language better

by Philip Gowman posted 12 Aug 2011 updated 17 Feb 2022
in Life & Leisure | Language & Learning | News and Current Affairs. < 1 minute read

A frenulotomy is said to make Koreans' pronunciation of English better. Image source: http://bit.ly/rfBcOG

We knew Korean kids had tongue operations to speak English better; now an English girl has done it to improve her Korean pronunciation: http://bit.ly/q6lTm4 #

2 thoughts on “The lengths to which people go to speak a language better”

Colette says:

2 October, 2011 at 11:24 am

Perhaps that is where I am going wrong then!!!! I am appalled and I didn’t realise that Korean kids were having tongue operations to speak English better which is as appalling.

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1. Philip Gowman says:
  
  2 October, 2011 at 11:28 am
  
  Check out the first of the omnibus films If You Were Me. Park Jin-pyo’s segment Tongue Tied has graphic footage of a tongue operation.
  
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