I'm an African American woman that took Korean in college and raised my daughter to speak Korean. She's a doctor now, and still understands me when I speak to her. It has enriched her life greatly...not to mention, it's fun to see mother and daughter speaking in public.
That's super interesting. I am as well soon mom. I am bilingual (German/English). My husband is Korean. So I will take notes! Haha. Making three languages work will be maybe a challenge but I can't wait to use them in daily life.
My friend raised the early years of the first child trilingually and each parent dealt with their native language but to eachother they used English and it so happened that the child moved to an English household and he picked up right away. He had definitely heard and learned a lot by overhearing parental interaction those early years despite it not being directed at him at the time.
Thank you~ I will try my best. That's why I hope at the end of this year I can have a basic conversation in Korean. So I can use it and also understand what my husband is talking about hahah.
As a person who grew up bilingually (German and Italian) I can say that, next to my bilingual environment, watching TV and movies in my "weaker" language has helped me the most to stay fluent during my child years. As a teen I was fluent but I still had to work a little to achieve an even higher level of fluency in my 2nd language. I am now 18 and I am learning English and French at school and Korean by myself and I can say I am soo grateful I grew up bilingual bc I absolutely love languages!
I grew up bilingual. There is no such thing as delayed development in the language of the school you end up going to (like, parents only speak one language but at school, on TV and all your friends speak another). You end up learning the school language better usually, if you grow up there. That's it. That myth annoys me xD Really great video, good insights. I also wish to raise my kids bilingual one day so it was really encouraging. :)
Even if you aren't fluent in the second language you want them to learn, studying together with them and exposing them to that language as often as possible helps if you aren't fluent or don't know anyone close or available who is. There are a lot of people around the world who learned english just by watching videos of people speaking the language. I didn't live with my chinese speaking family members, but I did have other family members who were interested in learning it, and they would urge me to study with them. I wasn't fluent but I was familiar with the language system. I didn't pick the language up fully until adulthood, and it's much easier for me to recognized tones and characters than someone who probably hasn't had that kind of pre-exposure. So if you're kid isn't fluent they have exposure which is better than none.
I was raised to be bilingual; English at school and Spanish at home. I also learned 7 other languages over the course of my life. In total I can speak in 9 languages. I think growing up bilingual helped me learn languages much quicker.
I was raised bilingual in English and Spanish as I'm Mexican American, but my little brother was born in Mexico and never visited the US, my parents only know broken English and I always spoke Spanish, yet my little brother is fluent in English too, the one thing we did have was TV in English only and that was basically the only source of the language he has. He, same as I, usually does all his internet stuff in English as you just get better results.
My three kids are bilingual French\English. I had trouble learning English myself, and finally started to pick it up in grade 11. I did not want my kids to have issues, so I’ve taught them from birth. When my youngest was around one year old, their father and I split up so I found myself raising them alone. Since I could not use the technique of one parent speaking one language and the other the second language, I got into the habit of speaking French one day and English the second. It worked pretty well, as the three of them are always over 90% in English classes at school. I wish they’d be as good in French though, but French is such a difficult language with all the stupid rules...but in speaking they don’t have issues. Traveling to English cities proved that my kids can communicate with the locals much more fluently and with less accent than I have but that’s the advantage of starting them young.
I'm always so happy when people have Hyunwoo on :') I remember back when I started learning Korean I did it through TTMIK so it's always oddly comforting to hear him
This was great! I am learning Korean and I want to teach my daughter. She is 3. I am in the process of adopting her. I want to teach her what I know but also have her listen to my Korean lessons
The biggest upset to my own kids' Korean learning was starting public school in the US. When she was 5 my daughter could speak Korean at about the level of a Korean 5-year-old, minus some vocabulary, because she spent all day with my Korean mother-in-law and spoke about half the time in Korean with my wife. Now she's 11 and has stalled since then because the amount of opportunities she had for both input and output in Korean went from literally every waking hour to very little, and then compounding that her English vocabulary and grammar grew by leaps and bounds, which made expressing herself in English more comfortable and Korean less comfortable, relatively.
Yes, typically kids will "pick" one language that's easier for them and more convenient and will not want to be bilingual unless there's a need to do so. We kind of talk about this in the video where Hyunwoo discusses that kids pick up what they're interested in. So in order to remain bilingual past childhood, a kid needs a reason to keep doing it. Otherwise, they'll only be bilingual when they're stuck at home in a Korean speaking environment.
I'm not yet a mother but hopefully when I become one, i'll get to teach my little one french and also learn with them considering i'm only decent and still have a lot to learn! It'll be a nice bonding experience too, I hope.
I still remember the few French words my mother taught me. She passed when I was 7. Also I appreciate you saying please and thank you to your children. It’s so important to be polite to them
I have tried. My son is 3 also. He screams NO whenever he hears Korean. He liked Pororo, so I had him watch it in korean *SCREAMS* Listens to Kpop *confusion* says Hello in korean *NOOOOOO* . Idk why he is so angry about Korean. I tell him dog and cat in Korean and he corrects me.
I didn't mention this in the video, but my kid also resisted Korean TV shows from when he was 2. If we put something on the TV that was in Korean (because he didn't get too much TV in the first place), he'd always ask for us to put on something in English and he'd act really bored. If TV had been our only method to encourage Korean, it would've been a big failure. Fortunately it wasn't, and these days he'll watch both English and Korean TV shows without complaining, but that's just a side effect of everything else. So it wasn't just one single method that worked in our case.
3:05 I legit thought he said "you favorite ant" I'm Australian, so I pronounce it the same as the British. With the u. I thought your kid was really weird for a sec there😂😂😂
I’m from Mexico and live in the states with my sister and my nephew. And the language we speak at the house is of course Spanish so my 10 year old nephew knows it and understands it. Although his fluency in Spanish is nowhere close to his fluency in English since it is the language he speaks everywhere outside the house and he watches a lot of RUclips videos only in English. He doesn’t like it when we force spanish on him and he prefers to watch Disney movies in English when me and my sister want to put it on in Spanish. Other kids his age think it’s cool to know both languages but he takes it for granted because it is normal to him. Our hope is that he gains genuine interest for it as he grows older, meanwhile we try to make him a better Spanish speaker.
As an English teacher in Korea, I'm constantly frustrated by (some) parents' belief in the myth that early second-language learning will permanently hamper their child's first-language competency. Do you have any resources (possibly in Korean) that bust this myth? I don't want to be confrontational with these parents, but some of their worries might be easily allayed by some scientific articles written in a language they can more easily access. ^^
a lot of us over in asia especially SG & MY used to learn 3-4 "languages" from young namely, english, mandarin, malay, and an ethic dialect of Indian or chinese dialect. Very doable for kids. it's adults that is limited by the "matured" mind. :D
this was so interesting, such valuable tips and anecdotes, so thank you both so much for sharing. and, though i don't have any children, it gave me some tips, insight (and motivation) as to how to improve my approach to learning korean. thank you again!!😊
My native language is English. I am fluent in Spanish, which I didn't learn until I was in my late 20's (I lived in the states with a family who only speaks Spanish at home, so I was immersed.). I am now in my 40's. I have a 4 year old. I am learning German, Japanese and Korean. I am teaching my child Spanish. Because of my interest in Korean, she is also interested in Korean. She watches Cocomong in Korean and can sing the intro song. She also knows the intro song in English, but I'm not sure if she understands what she's singing when she sings in Korean. She will come up to me and ask me what certain words are in Spanish. We watch children's learning videos together in Korean and Spanish. We watch Chi in Japanese together.
Weirdly, my parents did'nt speak english with me 😂 i picked up everything & getting expose in school. Idk how my english is at this level now but i guess it just happen naturally as i've been expose a lot through our education system & through the contents that i've been watching (i guess?) This is very interesting, i am not even trying to get into a relationship (so ofc, no kids in near time (?) ) it's so interesting how hyunwoo speak only english with his children. Kids are actually smart, they're actually a fast learner so teach them at the earlier ages actually help them improve a lot Even with the cute mistake, it's okay! They will learn it 😄
Kids will learn whatever language they're using the most, and that's almost always whatever language is spoken at their school - regardless of who their parents are. If a kid is learning English at a school for international students, then they're going to speak English even if they're living in Korea. School is where kids spend most of their days and where they speak the most and listen the most. It's why it's so important living outside of Korea that we encourage my kid to use Korean as much as possible, otherwise even with me and my wife speaking to him it won't enable him to be completely fluent in Korean.
I’m bilingual (English and Spanish) and learning Korean, Italian, and German, but I’m much better with my English than Spanish. My family and I speak mostly Spanglish and I’m trying to better my Spanish level since most times I forget key words in what I’m trying to say.
I have been raised trilingually. My mother spoke Japanese to me, my father German and English. On top of that, I lived in Vienna and attended a bilingual school. However, sometimes I don't actually think that theory that your main language becomes weaker is entirely a myth. My Japanese is definitely the weakest mother tongue because I can't read it, I have difficulties with honorifics and I have problems regarding more difficult vocabulary. German is my strongest language but it took longer to speak it than people who only spoke German. I still sometimes have difficulties with the three genders and four cases. More than "normal" Germans. My three siblings unfortunately have the same problems. My English may be better than that of many Austrians but the gap between me and native English speakers is still there when it comes to vocabulary. Pronunciation-wise I don't have any problems with either of these languages. I am not saying you shouldn't teach your children more than one or languages but don't teach them like an infinite number of languages as this really won't help unless the kid is a language genius. My only real foreign language is Korean. I have learnt it for two years so far and I more or less am able to speak and understand it but I still have a way to go. 😉
I'm 13 years old speak 6 languages learned without anybody's help (except for the first two (arabic,french) since I learned them in school) and I don't like to brag but it's a known fact about me on a daily basis (in front of my parents and siblings) i only speak (arabic,english) since even if the whole family speaks French it's not that liked in our household anyways now that I speak this many languages a lot of people I know treat me like there personal Google translate and of course I distance from those people but I'm okay with the subtle attention from time to time since I'm an introvert with no social life👍🌞
@@Fleur2005 hmm as I mentioned arabic and French were learned in school (I'm from Morocco) English and Turkish were learned from watching tons and tons of youtube videos and dramas and I've reached fluency in them with time (about 4 years) For korean and Chinese I watched a lot of dramas (again)and i kept practicing and learned a lot from these two (Billie,hyunwoo) and thats how I learned them. for Chinese and korean I'm still not fluent but can be considered a speaker 😆 After reaching fluency I plan on learning Japanese and Thai then taking a little break from the language world and maybe try to practice all of them since I feel like my turkish is fading and I'm not enjoying it.
For korean it's been about 2 years since I started learning it and yes I do study I have a whole drawer full of korean grammar notebooks and Chinese character notebooks and out of personal advice if you wanna learn a language you should be attracted to it and like it So you can have the patience and motivation to deal with it since usually in the beginning everything looks like scribbles and sounds like gibberish 😉
I don't speak korean very well but my 10 yr old twins and 12 yr old are really interested. And it is true when you're trying to work and raise kids there is little time but we are doing the best we can. We do watch go billy and ttmik so seeing the 2 of you together is great
I know that audible and watching RUclips videos and dramas helps people learn languages I know three languages and that's because my parents spoke different languages with me when I was younger
I find it so sad when kids with parents from different ethnicity aren't taught both of their parents language and culture ! If I have a child with someone from a different background, I really want to make sure they can speak my language (French) and my fiancé's language. I think it's a shame when it is not done and then the culture and language is forgotten. :/
You really want to have your kid to be exposed to native speakers, even if you're extremely fluent, because it's better for the kid to learn native pronunciation, rather than a slightly non-native pronunciation. I'm not sure what's sufficient-it might be that exposure to a native speaker just a few hours a week would be enough. Also, you want to expose your kid to the target language as early as possible, i.e., in infancy, because kids lose the ability to discriminate phonetic contrasts that do not exist in their mother language at around *8-10 months* after birth-they can relearn to discriminate those sounds later on, of course, but it's probably easier for them not to have to do that in the first place.
My parents only talked in Russian to me. Once I went to kindergarden, I picked up my second language. I speak both fluently. I guess that only works if both parents speak a language that's not the one of the country you live in..
My family only spoke Russian to me either, but since I always replied in German and haven´t used Russian in years I forgot A LOT. Personally, I´m quite embarrassed about not being able to speak the first language I was exposed to. I´m currently trying to change that.
I had heard from one of my German language professors that " best practices " for raising a child as bilingual is to have one person speak to the child in the "second" language exclusively.
That's a very common way that people do, and works too. However if that's the only exposure a child gets to that language (only from one person, and only when they're at home), they're not likely to learn it very well. It's important to get as much exposure as possible.
My niece is really interested in learning with me so I'm trying to teach her some words i know. Is there any materials i can get a hold of to help her learn to read/write better?
There are, well there were when I was studying language acquisition, two schools of thought on how children learn a language. There was the “blank slate” theory where the child has no language and absorbs what he/she hears “like a sponge” and in this way attains language. There’s also a theory that says children are born “knowing or having knowledge of” all spoken languages and the one they hear spoken most often will become their language. Most of my former students came from homes where both parents were fluent in at least 2 languages. Their method was generally the same way you two are doing it. However that was before they moved to the US. Once they were here and their children were enrolled in an all English public school to help maintain and continue to develop their fluency in their first language it was the only language that was spoken at home and they went to Korean school on Saturdays. These were kindergarteners, five year olds, and for the most part children of either graduate or post graduate students enrolled in a college located near the school where I taught. Some teachers never allowed their students to even converse with their friends in their first language. Personally I have always felt being multi-lingual was a good thing and let them know that while speaking to me or the class as a whole to use English, but just chit chat with their friends use what’s most comfortable. Today there are so many things available to help promote having a bilingual child. However I’m not that sure that in this particular era in the US speaking to your child in any language other than English in public is the best idea as there seem to be quite a few people that will comment about things that aren’t really their business in a negative and sometimes offensive way.
The theory of children being born "knowing or having knowledge of" languages is from Chompsky, which is pseudoscience - you can search "Universal Grammar Theory" to learn about all of the rebuttals and the history of that.The reason so many people have heard of the theory is because it's something Chompsky said, and because it's taught in linguistics classes as a discussion point for one of the lessons about how people learn languages. I also learned about it in a Korean linguistics class around 2010, and we talked about its merits as a theory, but ultimately it doesn't have any evidence to support it in the linguistic sense - especially when you look at the grammatical constructions of two languages that have so many differences like English and Korean.
Learn Korean with GO! Billy Korean I merely mentioned it as a theory, didn’t say I believed it now or when I learned about it in linguistics. As far as grammatical structures, what I believe is children learn it from what they hear and learn the “mechanics” of why when they’re taught grammar in school. As far as differences sentence structure, SVO vs SOV, children learning to speak, English speakers, sometimes leave out the verb. Ex. When your child wants you to pick them up, well mine anyway decades ago lol, would simply say Mama up and lift their arms. Basically I agreed with your video. Perhaps in the future I’ll just say nice video.
I think so too. Kids just learn what they hear without knowing the mechanics of it. That's one of the reasons adults can learn so quickly when first starting, since they're able to get right into the mechanics even with very little exposure. But also a benefit of children since they don't get so caught up on mechanics either :)
I'm not sure that I understand perfectly. But it seems that parents should use second languages together with kids. This is one hard thing for me. The other one that my first kid from time to time complains that my pronunciation is so weird that she is not comfortable to understand. Coule you give me some advises?
That's okay you're pronunciation doesn't have to be perfect. My parents are from Vietnam and then moved to canada before I was born. Their English accent is different but I still understood them. I learnt english and French in school at the same time, my parents don't know how to speak french at all but I was still able to become fluent. As long as you speak as much of the language as you can, pronunciation doesn't matter
Adults aren't really able to learn the same way as kids. Adults can learn a lot more efficiently and faster through studying grammar books, but the exposure part will be similar. I made a different video in my "Korean FAQ" series about immersion that you can watch for some tips.
For kids it's better that they are able to speak one language perfectly so that they can express themselves properly instead of being intermediate level in both.
@@erianstone9774 I know a lot of people that don't speak their native language properly because of this. They were usually raised speaking more than 2 languages tho..
@@timetravelYT That's not always true. My parents are from vietnam so they mostly spoke vietnamese to me. They also spoke english to me so by the time I was 2 I could speak both fluently (I spoke english with a vietnamese accent) haha). When I was five I was put in french immersion, my parents don't speak french at all so basically I was learning 3 languages at the same time. I eventually became fluent and able to express myself in all three. If you think it's just me, than it's not. This also happened to my three other cousins who are all trilingual. The rest are bilingual.
@@timetravelYT by fluent, I meant I was able to understand most of what was being said to me and reply in full sentences. But maybe I'm wrong maybe that isn't considered "fluent" but it's hard to determine what is.
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I'm an African American woman that took Korean in college and raised my daughter to speak Korean. She's a doctor now, and still understands me when I speak to her. It has enriched her life greatly...not to mention, it's fun to see mother and daughter speaking in public.
That's so cool!!
Lmao why am I watching this when I´m nowhere near to having a child?
That's me I'm too young lol
😂😂Same
Saaaaaamme
I don't even know a second language... YET
will be watching this video again in 10 years
I wish I was raised bilingual as well. My second grade cousin can already speak english, german and chinese at the age of 7. So I'm kinda jealous 😅
How it can?
@@user-lk3yl9gi7z Well the father is german, the mother is chinese and they are living in Canada
That's so cool!! I'm also trilingual(German, French, English)
@@Kikoo_arts I'm too actually (I can speak German, English and Korean)
@@KamirLP that's so cool!! Which is your best and weakest language?
That's super interesting. I am as well soon mom. I am bilingual (German/English). My husband is Korean. So I will take notes! Haha. Making three languages work will be maybe a challenge but I can't wait to use them in daily life.
My friend raised the early years of the first child trilingually and each parent dealt with their native language but to eachother they used English and it so happened that the child moved to an English household and he picked up right away. He had definitely heard and learned a lot by overhearing parental interaction those early years despite it not being directed at him at the time.
Woah das ist so cool!! (ich bin trilingual (Deutsch, französisch, Englisch)
Viel Glück mit deiner neuen kleinen Familie!!
my friend is in the same situation and it worked out! you can do it too! :D
Thank you~ I will try my best. That's why I hope at the end of this year I can have a basic conversation in Korean. So I can use it and also understand what my husband is talking about hahah.
As a person who grew up bilingually (German and Italian) I can say that, next to my bilingual environment, watching TV and movies in my "weaker" language has helped me the most to stay fluent during my child years. As a teen I was fluent but I still had to work a little to achieve an even higher level of fluency in my 2nd language. I am now 18 and I am learning English and French at school and Korean by myself and I can say I am soo grateful I grew up bilingual bc I absolutely love languages!
Ja!! So bin ich trilingual geworden (also für englisch)
I can speak German, French eg English :)
I grew up bilingual. There is no such thing as delayed development in the language of the school you end up going to (like, parents only speak one language but at school, on TV and all your friends speak another). You end up learning the school language better usually, if you grow up there. That's it. That myth annoys me xD
Really great video, good insights. I also wish to raise my kids bilingual one day so it was really encouraging. :)
Billy, would you be willing to adopt me to raise me bilingually alongside Jeremy? 😂😂
How about a third???
Even if you aren't fluent in the second language you want them to learn, studying together with them and exposing them to that language as often as possible helps if you aren't fluent or don't know anyone close or available who is. There are a lot of people around the world who learned english just by watching videos of people speaking the language. I didn't live with my chinese speaking family members, but I did have other family members who were interested in learning it, and they would urge me to study with them. I wasn't fluent but I was familiar with the language system. I didn't pick the language up fully until adulthood, and it's much easier for me to recognized tones and characters than someone who probably hasn't had that kind of pre-exposure. So if you're kid isn't fluent they have exposure which is better than none.
Wow I didn't know Hyunwoo only spoke to Joon in English! Very interesting! Love seeing my two favorite teachers together :)
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I was raised to be bilingual; English at school and Spanish at home. I also learned 7 other languages over the course of my life. In total I can speak in 9 languages. I think growing up bilingual helped me learn languages much quicker.
I was raised bilingual in English and Spanish as I'm Mexican American, but my little brother was born in Mexico and never visited the US, my parents only know broken English and I always spoke Spanish, yet my little brother is fluent in English too, the one thing we did have was TV in English only and that was basically the only source of the language he has. He, same as I, usually does all his internet stuff in English as you just get better results.
My three kids are bilingual French\English. I had trouble learning English myself, and finally started to pick it up in grade 11. I did not want my kids to have issues, so I’ve taught them from birth. When my youngest was around one year old, their father and I split up so I found myself raising them alone. Since I could not use the technique of one parent speaking one language and the other the second language, I got into the habit of speaking French one day and English the second. It worked pretty well, as the three of them are always over 90% in English classes at school. I wish they’d be as good in French though, but French is such a difficult language with all the stupid rules...but in speaking they don’t have issues. Traveling to English cities proved that my kids can communicate with the locals much more fluently and with less accent than I have but that’s the advantage of starting them young.
I'm always so happy when people have Hyunwoo on :') I remember back when I started learning Korean I did it through TTMIK so it's always oddly comforting to hear him
This was great! I am learning Korean and I want to teach my daughter. She is 3. I am in the process of adopting her. I want to teach her what I know but also have her listen to my Korean lessons
제일 좋아하는 선생님들 한국어를 가르쳐 줘서 늘 고맙습니다 🤗
I don't have a child, I am no where having a child, I am a child myself what am I doing here hahaha 🤣😂🤣
Wow what a collaboration 🤩
My understanding of my own grammar has greatly improved with the study of Hangul for the last 3 yrs
Yeah. While learning another structure, you begin to observe your own and compare 👌
Just now watching this video from your recent vlog with Jeremy. Very interesting topic. Thanks for the video Billy and Hyunwoo!
The biggest upset to my own kids' Korean learning was starting public school in the US. When she was 5 my daughter could speak Korean at about the level of a Korean 5-year-old, minus some vocabulary, because she spent all day with my Korean mother-in-law and spoke about half the time in Korean with my wife. Now she's 11 and has stalled since then because the amount of opportunities she had for both input and output in Korean went from literally every waking hour to very little, and then compounding that her English vocabulary and grammar grew by leaps and bounds, which made expressing herself in English more comfortable and Korean less comfortable, relatively.
Yes, typically kids will "pick" one language that's easier for them and more convenient and will not want to be bilingual unless there's a need to do so. We kind of talk about this in the video where Hyunwoo discusses that kids pick up what they're interested in. So in order to remain bilingual past childhood, a kid needs a reason to keep doing it. Otherwise, they'll only be bilingual when they're stuck at home in a Korean speaking environment.
I'm not yet a mother but hopefully when I become one, i'll get to teach my little one french and also learn with them considering i'm only decent and still have a lot to learn! It'll be a nice bonding experience too, I hope.
I still remember the few French words my mother taught me. She passed when I was 7. Also I appreciate you saying please and thank you to your children. It’s so important to be polite to them
I have tried. My son is 3 also. He screams NO whenever he hears Korean. He liked Pororo, so I had him watch it in korean *SCREAMS* Listens to Kpop *confusion* says Hello in korean *NOOOOOO* . Idk why he is so angry about Korean. I tell him dog and cat in Korean and he corrects me.
I didn't mention this in the video, but my kid also resisted Korean TV shows from when he was 2. If we put something on the TV that was in Korean (because he didn't get too much TV in the first place), he'd always ask for us to put on something in English and he'd act really bored. If TV had been our only method to encourage Korean, it would've been a big failure. Fortunately it wasn't, and these days he'll watch both English and Korean TV shows without complaining, but that's just a side effect of everything else. So it wasn't just one single method that worked in our case.
billy, you look great, you are *glowing* !!
I can thank the bright studio lights and getting to hang out with Hyunwoo.
where's my 'closer to BEING a baby than HAVING a baby but still watching cause my favorite korean teachers are together' gang? 😭💗
3:05 I legit thought he said "you favorite ant"
I'm Australian, so I pronounce it the same as the British. With the u.
I thought your kid was really weird for a sec there😂😂😂
I’m from Mexico and live in the states with my sister and my nephew. And the language we speak at the house is of course Spanish so my 10 year old nephew knows it and understands it. Although his fluency in Spanish is nowhere close to his fluency in English since it is the language he speaks everywhere outside the house and he watches a lot of RUclips videos only in English.
He doesn’t like it when we force spanish on him and he prefers to watch Disney movies in English when me and my sister want to put it on in Spanish.
Other kids his age think it’s cool to know both languages but he takes it for granted because it is normal to him. Our hope is that he gains genuine interest for it as he grows older, meanwhile we try to make him a better Spanish speaker.
Hey Billy, I enjoy watching your vids!
quick question, do you always wear same shirts on purpose? To be recognized easily?
Yes, it's pretty much my costume.
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I just thought that people might get the impression that you only wear one thing...
As an English teacher in Korea, I'm constantly frustrated by (some) parents' belief in the myth that early second-language learning will permanently hamper their child's first-language competency. Do you have any resources (possibly in Korean) that bust this myth? I don't want to be confrontational with these parents, but some of their worries might be easily allayed by some scientific articles written in a language they can more easily access. ^^
Also, this is a fantastic video! Thanks to you and Hyunwoo for such a thoughtful discussion of the topic from a parent's perspective!! 정말 감사합니다...
a lot of us over in asia especially SG & MY used to learn 3-4 "languages" from young namely, english, mandarin, malay, and an ethic dialect of Indian or chinese dialect. Very doable for kids. it's adults that is limited by the "matured" mind. :D
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this was so interesting, such valuable tips and anecdotes, so thank you both so much for sharing. and, though i don't have any children, it gave me some tips, insight (and motivation) as to how to improve my approach to learning korean. thank you again!!😊
Same👍💜
My native language is English. I am fluent in Spanish, which I didn't learn until I was in my late 20's (I lived in the states with a family who only speaks Spanish at home, so I was immersed.). I am now in my 40's. I have a 4 year old. I am learning German, Japanese and Korean. I am teaching my child Spanish. Because of my interest in Korean, she is also interested in Korean. She watches Cocomong in Korean and can sing the intro song. She also knows the intro song in English, but I'm not sure if she understands what she's singing when she sings in Korean. She will come up to me and ask me what certain words are in Spanish. We watch children's learning videos together in Korean and Spanish. We watch Chi in Japanese together.
Weirdly, my parents did'nt speak english with me 😂 i picked up everything & getting expose in school. Idk how my english is at this level now but i guess it just happen naturally as i've been expose a lot through our education system & through the contents that i've been watching (i guess?)
This is very interesting, i am not even trying to get into a relationship (so ofc, no kids in near time (?) ) it's so interesting how hyunwoo speak only english with his children. Kids are actually smart, they're actually a fast learner so teach them at the earlier ages actually help them improve a lot
Even with the cute mistake, it's okay! They will learn it 😄
Kids will learn whatever language they're using the most, and that's almost always whatever language is spoken at their school - regardless of who their parents are. If a kid is learning English at a school for international students, then they're going to speak English even if they're living in Korea. School is where kids spend most of their days and where they speak the most and listen the most. It's why it's so important living outside of Korea that we encourage my kid to use Korean as much as possible, otherwise even with me and my wife speaking to him it won't enable him to be completely fluent in Korean.
정말 흥미로운 주제네요! 저도 다개국어인데다가 언어학 전공이라 이런 분야에 관심이 많아요. 사실 이 영상 보는 동안 하고싶은 말이 많았는데 댓글로 쓰기엔 너무 많네요 ㅎㅎ 저도 나중에 한국에 살 계획인데 저도 다개국어로 키우고싶어서 영상 시청하게 되었습니다.
그냥 댓글로 하셔도 돼요 ^^
I’m bilingual (English and Spanish) and learning Korean, Italian, and German, but I’m much better with my English than Spanish. My family and I speak mostly Spanglish and I’m trying to better my Spanish level since most times I forget key words in what I’m trying to say.
I have been raised trilingually. My mother spoke Japanese to me, my father German and English. On top of that, I lived in Vienna and attended a bilingual school. However, sometimes I don't actually think that theory that your main language becomes weaker is entirely a myth. My Japanese is definitely the weakest mother tongue because I can't read it, I have difficulties with honorifics and I have problems regarding more difficult vocabulary. German is my strongest language but it took longer to speak it than people who only spoke German. I still sometimes have difficulties with the three genders and four cases. More than "normal" Germans. My three siblings unfortunately have the same problems. My English may be better than that of many Austrians but the gap between me and native English speakers is still there when it comes to vocabulary. Pronunciation-wise I don't have any problems with either of these languages. I am not saying you shouldn't teach your children more than one or languages but don't teach them like an infinite number of languages as this really won't help unless the kid is a language genius.
My only real foreign language is Korean. I have learnt it for two years so far and I more or less am able to speak and understand it but I still have a way to go. 😉
Woaa voll cool!! Ich bin auch trilingual(German, French, English
I'm 13 years old speak 6 languages learned without anybody's help (except for the first two (arabic,french) since I learned them in school) and I don't like to brag but it's a known fact about me on a daily basis (in front of my parents and siblings) i only speak (arabic,english) since even if the whole family speaks French it's not that liked in our household
anyways now that I speak this many languages a lot of people I know treat me like there personal Google translate and of course I distance from those people but I'm okay with the subtle attention from time to time since I'm an introvert with no social life👍🌞
Did you learn Korean?
@@neosori6236 yup😄
@@Fleur2005 hmm as I mentioned arabic and French were learned in school (I'm from Morocco)
English and Turkish were learned from watching tons and tons of youtube videos and dramas and I've reached fluency in them with time (about 4 years)
For korean and Chinese I watched a lot of dramas (again)and i kept practicing and learned a lot from these two (Billie,hyunwoo) and thats how I learned them. for Chinese and korean I'm still not fluent but can be considered a speaker 😆
After reaching fluency I plan on learning Japanese and Thai then taking a little break from the language world and maybe try to practice all of them since I feel like my turkish is fading and I'm not enjoying it.
For korean it's been about 2 years since I started learning it and yes I do study I have a whole drawer full of korean grammar notebooks and
Chinese character notebooks and out of personal advice if you wanna learn a language you should be attracted to it and like it
So you can have the patience and motivation to deal with it since usually in the beginning everything looks like scribbles and sounds like gibberish 😉
I don't speak korean very well but my 10 yr old twins and 12 yr old are really interested. And it is true when you're trying to work and raise kids there is little time but we are doing the best we can. We do watch go billy and ttmik so seeing the 2 of you together is great
I know that audible and watching RUclips videos and dramas helps people learn languages I know three languages and that's because my parents spoke different languages with me when I was younger
Similar here but my 7yr old brother. he’s super interested and I taught him a few words last year and he still remembers
I am a billingual baby (arabic/english) and am trying to be a trillingual baby and teach myself korean wish me luck uwu
I find it so sad when kids with parents from different ethnicity aren't taught both of their parents language and culture !
If I have a child with someone from a different background, I really want to make sure they can speak my language (French) and my fiancé's language.
I think it's a shame when it is not done and then the culture and language is forgotten. :/
If I had to live in a foreign country, I would definitely learn my child my native language.
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This was super interesting and I don't even have a boyfriend, let alone a kid lol
You really want to have your kid to be exposed to native speakers, even if you're extremely fluent, because it's better for the kid to learn native pronunciation, rather than a slightly non-native pronunciation. I'm not sure what's sufficient-it might be that exposure to a native speaker just a few hours a week would be enough.
Also, you want to expose your kid to the target language as early as possible, i.e., in infancy, because kids lose the ability to discriminate phonetic contrasts that do not exist in their mother language at around *8-10 months* after birth-they can relearn to discriminate those sounds later on, of course, but it's probably easier for them not to have to do that in the first place.
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My parents only talked in Russian to me. Once I went to kindergarden, I picked up my second language. I speak both fluently. I guess that only works if both parents speak a language that's not the one of the country you live in..
What is your second language? English?
Kikoo Happy German :)
@@CarryDH wow hab ne freundin die das gleiche erlebt hat... gruselig
My family only spoke Russian to me either, but since I always replied in German and haven´t used Russian in years I forgot A LOT. Personally, I´m quite embarrassed about not being able to speak the first language I was exposed to. I´m currently trying to change that.
I wonder if its possible to raise a kid with 4 languages
I had heard from one of my German language professors that " best practices " for raising a child as bilingual is to have one person speak to the child in the "second" language exclusively.
That's a very common way that people do, and works too. However if that's the only exposure a child gets to that language (only from one person, and only when they're at home), they're not likely to learn it very well. It's important to get as much exposure as possible.
@@GoBillyKorean Agreed, the more exposure the better!!
My niece is really interested in learning with me so I'm trying to teach her some words i know. Is there any materials i can get a hold of to help her learn to read/write better?
I am Multi
Tagalog
Bisaya
Maguindanaon
English
tagalog
kapampangan
english
korean
a little bit of japanese, spanish and chinese
@@jlo5384 parehas
Why am I watching this when I don't have a child and still only know one language?
okkurrr im a gyopo so lets get it
very good info
My mother tongue is different language my native language is different and I can speak in English too is that make me bilingual ????🤔🤔🤔
@@Fleur2005 so what I can call myself ???? 🤔🙂
@@Fleur2005 three
I only know English and Tagalog..
There are, well there were when I was studying language acquisition, two schools of thought on how children learn a language. There was the “blank slate” theory where the child has no language and absorbs what he/she hears “like a sponge” and in this way attains language. There’s also a theory that says children are born “knowing or having knowledge of” all spoken languages and the one they hear spoken most often will become their language. Most of my former students came from homes where both parents were fluent in at least 2 languages. Their method was generally the same way you two are doing it. However that was before they moved to the US. Once they were here and their children were enrolled in an all English public school to help maintain and continue to develop their fluency in their first language it was the only language that was spoken at home and they went to Korean school on Saturdays. These were kindergarteners, five year olds, and for the most part children of either graduate or post graduate students enrolled in a college located near the school where I taught. Some teachers never allowed their students to even converse with their friends in their first language. Personally I have always felt being multi-lingual was a good thing and let them know that while speaking to me or the class as a whole to use English, but just chit chat with their friends use what’s most comfortable. Today there are so many things available to help promote having a bilingual child. However I’m not that sure that in this particular era in the US speaking to your child in any language other than English in public is the best idea as there seem to be quite a few people that will comment about things that aren’t really their business in a negative and sometimes offensive way.
The theory of children being born "knowing or having knowledge of" languages is from Chompsky, which is pseudoscience - you can search "Universal Grammar Theory" to learn about all of the rebuttals and the history of that.The reason so many people have heard of the theory is because it's something Chompsky said, and because it's taught in linguistics classes as a discussion point for one of the lessons about how people learn languages. I also learned about it in a Korean linguistics class around 2010, and we talked about its merits as a theory, but ultimately it doesn't have any evidence to support it in the linguistic sense - especially when you look at the grammatical constructions of two languages that have so many differences like English and Korean.
Learn Korean with GO! Billy Korean I merely mentioned it as a theory, didn’t say I believed it now or when I learned about it in linguistics. As far as grammatical structures, what I believe is children learn it from what they hear and learn the “mechanics” of why when they’re taught grammar in school. As far as differences sentence structure, SVO vs SOV, children learning to speak, English speakers, sometimes leave out the verb. Ex. When your child wants you to pick them up, well mine anyway decades ago lol, would simply say Mama up and lift their arms. Basically I agreed with your video. Perhaps in the future I’ll just say nice video.
I think so too. Kids just learn what they hear without knowing the mechanics of it. That's one of the reasons adults can learn so quickly when first starting, since they're able to get right into the mechanics even with very little exposure. But also a benefit of children since they don't get so caught up on mechanics either :)
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i am 13 why am i even watching this
I'm not sure that I understand perfectly. But it seems that parents should use second languages together with kids. This is one hard thing for me. The other one that my first kid from time to time complains that my pronunciation is so weird that she is not comfortable to understand. Coule you give me some advises?
That's okay you're pronunciation doesn't have to be perfect. My parents are from Vietnam and then moved to canada before I was born. Their English accent is different but I still understood them. I learnt english and French in school at the same time, my parents don't know how to speak french at all but I was still able to become fluent. As long as you speak as much of the language as you can, pronunciation doesn't matter
So Billy's kid goes to a Korean language school? In the U.S?
No, just regular preschool in the US (and daycare while we're in Korea).
@@GoBillyKorean Oh, okay.
Do you think it works for adults as well?😂😭
Adults aren't really able to learn the same way as kids. Adults can learn a lot more efficiently and faster through studying grammar books, but the exposure part will be similar. I made a different video in my "Korean FAQ" series about immersion that you can watch for some tips.
@@GoBillyKorean Thank you for the detailed comment! I'll watch it right away 🏃♂️🏃♀️
I was raised trilingual...
What languages?
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exposure of the video hurts my eyes, too much light
For kids it's better that they are able to speak one language perfectly so that they can express themselves properly instead of being intermediate level in both.
That is a myth~
@@erianstone9774 I know a lot of people that don't speak their native language properly because of this. They were usually raised speaking more than 2 languages tho..
@@timetravelYT That's not always true. My parents are from vietnam so they mostly spoke vietnamese to me. They also spoke english to me so by the time I was 2 I could speak both fluently (I spoke english with a vietnamese accent) haha). When I was five I was put in french immersion, my parents don't speak french at all so basically I was learning 3 languages at the same time. I eventually became fluent and able to express myself in all three.
If you think it's just me, than it's not. This also happened to my three other cousins who are all trilingual. The rest are bilingual.
@@dianenguyen1523 sounds like bullshit. No one speaks english or any other language fluently by the time they are 2...
@@timetravelYT by fluent, I meant I was able to understand most of what was being said to me and reply in full sentences. But maybe I'm wrong maybe that isn't considered "fluent" but it's hard to determine what is.