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If an operation would help you speak English better, would you get one? One girl in England had an operation to help her speak Korean better. Read the article below, then answer the questions after the article. Send us your answers to tutor@virtualingua.de! If you're already a student with us, this is a tutored exercise, if not, send us your answers and test our tutoring--you'll get corrections and feedback from one of our native-speaker tutors!
Girl gets tongue operation to speak Korean
A British girl had an operation to lengthen her tongue so she could speak Korean more fluently.
Rhiannon Brooksbank–Jones, 19, from Nottinghamshire in England, started studying Korean two years ago. She had problems pronouncing some words and found out that she had a tongue that was a bit shorter than average. So she had an operation to lengthen her tongue by about 1cm. Now she can say the words that she couldn’t say before.
"My speaking level was excellent but I found it difficult to pronounce some sounds," says Rhiannon. "I was having trouble with the Korean letter L, which is very frequent and comes from a slightly higher place in the mouth than the English L. Because my tongue was too short, the operation was my only choice. My pronunciation was very foreign but now I can speak with a native Korean accent."
The teen plans to study Korean at university and hopes to live in Korea one day.
Übersetzungen
Rhiannon Brooksbank–Jones, 19, from Nottinghamshire in England, started studying Korean two years ago. She had problems pronouncing some words and found out that she had a tongue that was a bit shorter than average. So she had an operation to lengthen her tongue by about 1cm. Now she can say the words that she couldn’t say before.
"My speaking level was excellent but I found it difficult to pronounce some sounds," says Rhiannon. "I was having trouble with the Korean letter L, which is very frequent and comes from a slightly higher place in the mouth than the English L. Because my tongue was too short, the operation was my only choice. My pronunciation was very foreign but now I can speak with a native Korean accent."
The teen plans to study Korean at university and hopes to live in Korea one day.
Übersetzungen
more fluently = flüssiger
frequent = häufig
pronunciation = Aussprache
with a native Korean accent = wie ein koreanischer Muttersprachler
frequent = häufig
pronunciation = Aussprache
with a native Korean accent = wie ein koreanischer Muttersprachler
1. What's the girl's name?
2. How old is she?
3. Why did she have problems pronouncing words in Korean?
4. What did the operation do?
5. Was the operation a success?
