Let's welcome TAECYEON as the 9th guest of the Daebak Show S3! TAECYEON and Eric discuss TAECYEON’s latest drama ‘Heartbeat,’ his journey as an artist, and his experiences in acting.
I know this isn't the point of this but I think it soooo interesting that someone who was only in a country for 7 years was able to so fluent in a language that he receives a perfect score on his TOEIC Exam. I know people who have lived in Korea for longer than that and can still barely order at restaurants.
Yes, he's going to English speaking school every day for 7 years but I think it also shows how incredibly powerful the mind is. He was 12! That seems like such a late age to really get into language acquisition but truly him (and Jaehyun NCT) are really interesting cases of how language acquisition functions in children/young kids.
Taec just seems to willing to learn and just giving it his all in anything he puts his mind to it + he is really smart despite the fact that he acts so silly/dumb sometimes in his variety shows or interviews even.
why 12 would be such a late age to learn? plus korean isnt like french or portuguese were you need an extra tongue to get the right accent/tonality in all those vowels.. sure ,if we talked about idioms that have both tonal and grammatical complexity. but compared to other languages that you can learn hangul is actually super logical and therefor easier to catch on.
It's not pre-teens being smarter than I give them credit for (????) its that the way language development works in your brain regardless of what your opinion might be
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Yess thanks for this explanation. I also remember reading about how it is harder for kids to learn a language and be fluent when they're older and also about the accent thing. I also remember reading that it is harder for males than females, too. 12 is definitely late and I was really surprised when I watched the video because I've never heard taec speak so much English at once before lol. And his vocab was quite extensive. He is practically speaking like a native. Going to an English school in Korea definitely helped with that, I'm sure
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Yes, he's going to English speaking school every day for 7 years but I think it also shows how incredibly powerful the mind is. He was 12! That seems like such a late age to really get into language acquisition but truly him (and Jaehyun NCT) are really interesting cases of how language acquisition functions in children/young kids.
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pre-teens are smarter than you give them credits
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