Asian-americans speaking in their mother-tongue (Lucy Liu, Ming-na Wen, Daniel Dae Kim etc.) 

Lmao. His korean is just catastrophic. Im sure he is aware of it

For a person who dont even speaks korean i know its awful. Haha

he sounds just like a korean but with a weird satoori😂😂

Agree lol. It sound awkward hahaha

dont even understand any korean...but i watched too many korean shows to know that his korean is sooooo bad

My native language is Spanish, but because I live in America I speak English the most, so now my Spanish sounds funny. That’s what happens when you don’t practice as much.

That's because they're Americans.

It's not about whether they're Americans.. it's about how often they practice the said language. Fluency is defined by that.. not ethnicity or nationality. I would think most people with some common sense would know that.

It works both ways. Spanish was my friends 1st language but her family moved to America when she was young & they never practiced so she can't speak it anymore. My other friend, English was his 1st language but he's been living in Korea for 10 years & now he's forgotten a lot of English words. He even starts pronouncing things with a broken accent because he's so used to hearing it that way it becomes natural to him.

Guambry exactly! My first language is Spanish but my once my parents learned they stopped speaking it, didn’t even teach my brother and now I understand it perfectly by drug back and forth between languages sometimes.

Click bait n views

to try and attract perverted men and get more views

@Joe Costner Lucy Liu is 50 years old at the moment.

I noticed that too!! Sexist. Women are more likely to be sexualized I guess

Oh, so you noticed? I think you were supposed to.

Baka!

In japanese

S. Young ancestral tongue.

English is their first language, their native language is the language of their race

Fuck off. Leave them be.

Not when you actually speak Cantonese. In that case it's a cringefest.

Fuzzymoon Beam yeapp😉

When i watched this all i could think about was Harry Shum Jr

@@evangelostse2477 At least he knows it. I'm sure he's still learning. How is what you're saying any different than an American making fun of an immigrant for not speaking English 100% correctly. Ignorant

John Baca chill your fucking tits, don’t call others an ignorant. Their comment wasn’t even all that serious calm tf down

Yes, I used to think that cultural difference in beauty appreciation was bs because I'd never seen a clear example of it, but to me it is mind-blowing that most Chinese people wouldn't think she's beautiful, to me (and everyone I know) she's like astonishingly pretty!

Lucy Liu was never considered pretty. She rose to stardom because of her amazing acting, exotic but very convincing, in Payback, when she played a very insignificant supporting role but stole the whole show.

@@wularry1298 in the us? lucy liu is a thousand percent a beauty icon

@@Nat-eb4lw Most American do not think she is beautiful either. Maxim 100 hottest woman in 2003 (when she was on peak of her popularity) didn't have her, but Kelly Hu was there. Lucy Liu is powerful and fetish and is extremely attractive to a particular group of men but no every one.

As a Mandarin speaker, I don't think Lucy Liu's Mandarin is anywhere near good, unfotunately. Really love her acting though

you must be another I cant speak Korean anchor lmfao

Still got time to learn

But I think he speaks perfect Korean

@@MsHantubelau he's got an accent for sure. His enunciation is tacked with the phrasing of english words

Brazilian here, same

Mother tongue just means first language learned. It doesn't mean proficiency level in a language. I was born H.K but moved to the U.S when I was 8. I only knew Chinese then and had to go through 3 years of ESL. But now, I speak English way better than I can speak Chinese. In fact my Chinese is at best at a 3rd grade level and I speak it with an American accent. Does that mean my mother tongue is not Chinese anymore? No, it still is. Because that was what I learned first in childhood.

​@@maplenerd22 Yes, I understand that -- but many of these Asian-American actors were born and raised in the US so English is their mother tongue language --

@@xxxxmimi - No they weren't. Half of them were born overseas but came over at a young age. Also born in America doesn't mean that's the first language they learned is English. For most first generation Asian American, the first language they learn is the language they learn from their immigrant parents. Sure they pick up English once they go school, just like how I picked up English when I had to go to school, the first language (mother tongue) is from their parents. The phrase "mother tongue" literally means the language taught from your mother.

Really? Thought their Chinese was pretty good. Can’t speak for the rest of the actors

I was gonna say. I'm a pretty defective Spanish heritage speaker and i had to study my ass off for a year and a half just to get to a solid C1 (advanced fluency, close to native, but not a native level). People who don't speak other languages (or even people who speak a heritage language) tend to think that heritage speakers have a better ability in their less dominant language for some reason. There's more that goes into being a native speaker than simply speaking a language in the home. Natives are also *educated* in their tongue, much like lots of us took English for years, only to be able to write college essays near our 20s, it's complicated.

he sounds like when white actors learn the pronunciation of korean in english romanization. like he's never actually spoken the language. which could be the case so its fine. but it is pretty bad

I’m half Korean and my Korean sounds better then his 😬

@@duckiechen1321 Well, in fairness after the last decade of Hallyu it is only now that Korean productions employ singers and actors who do speak a foreign language. I'm not talking about accent, I do very well tolerate a thick accent with grammatical correctness, but possibly the worst attempt I've ever heard two people speaking French was in All about my wife from 2013, I direly needed subtitles to figure out the language spoken. This is because even though to a degree SK has realized they produce for the international market for years they still winged it with morphed expressions. Much like Hungarian, Korean is also a forcibly assimiliating language that transforms foreign words into domestic ones until they lose all meaning.

@@akosbarati2239 I dont understand..... you're saying to be fair koreans have spoken bad french/english/etc too..? oooor....

His Korean is simply memorized. Some of them doesn't even make sense.

@@geronimo4621 ikr!

wHae nA gUaZiZuNu hAmBoKaLsUgA uPsEo?

ㅋㅋㅋ 재밌기만한뎅

Not a korean, so I can't exactly tell what's wrong. I just thought it sounded like Korean with a Japanese accent. What do I know?

@@danieldaekim5263 lmao

That's not his son....lol

William is not his son. He's Sam Hammington's son, a friend of Steven.

lol I'm Pinoy and live in the Philippines but even I have trouble with Tagalog and Bisaya coz family didn't bother trying to speak to me in anything other than English.

Girl same. My parents speak Tagalog and Ilonggo. I can understand some but not a lot.

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Isn’t it JiJi not GiGi? Coming from ojiisan not ogiisan

祐恭 coming from an English teacher of six years this is very wrong. The sounds of J both in English and Japanese are the same so are the sounds of G and G in English and Japanese

祐恭 but I understand where you are getting at Ji does sound like “G” but this is the letter, not the phonetic. We don’t relate spelling to sounds of letters, we relate it to the singular phonetic sound of each letter, not each kana/gana (two letter sounds in Japanese) Otherwise it would be GG not Gigi. They’re both very different

祐恭 you’re welcome! 不用谢

@@tommynguyen3519 gigi could be spelled to ぎぎ, jiji is じじ　hence jiji is good i thought During the plot both young man and his grandfather said jiji-i. That is awkward. Jiji-i is to call an aged man when you meant to abuse him. クソじじい for an common word. If it was ji-i-ji instead, ah they must be so close like calling him Papa.

rast nin I'm not even korean but I even hear that it isn't that great either

I know right. it's pretty bad.. Lol I was telling my parents while they were watching it.

awwdeezy it's the samw with daniel henney...? I think that's his name. Their korean is not that good tho

Yeah. False advertising on the video title. Korean is not his mother tongue: His mother was Korean. lol

rast nin I'm not even Korean and I felt like his Korean was ugh loll. There's this movie called " weekend with the family" boiiii the mom's Korean, I was like Staaappp

cqer And she sounds almost native. Perfect accent.

She sounds far from native, but it's a better accent than the last 50 asian-american actors' chinese combined.

She did in Ally McBeal

Brant Liu because her mother tongue is not english, she couldnt speak eng till 5

What’s the name of the movie?

yeah...and I was waiting for Filipinos, Vietnamese, etc...

dani loong Pakistan is South Asia not the middle east

Asian is only Japanese, Chinese, Korean. The others are Southeast Asian. Indians are NOT asian, they are Caucasian.

@@normanbraslow7902 So. Asian means someone from the continent of Asia. What you're saying is East Asia.

@@normanbraslow7902 STUPIDITY level 99999😂 From Israel to Syria,Kazakhs,Mongol,Japan,Philippines,Indonesia,Timor Leste,Maldives,Middle East they are all Asian.

Yes but he not use to spicy food 🤣

I second that. Ming-na Wen ok for me too

@@weetak Mingna's pretty good, simple words though.

@@longjiangzhao2548 yes. Maybe she has chosen to just say those simple few words. Hard to go wrong.. haha.

Lucy Liu spoke Mandarin at home with her parents and siblings growing up. She also has a batchelor's degree in Asian languages.

@@lionlyons 高手

It sounded like he was reading off a romaji transcript of the lines in Japanese.

Ya

true

Ummm not Japanese tone only Japanese tone was the girl.

な～！

Kate Hu That may be right but most Asian-Americans grew up using their 'heritage' languages at home with their families.

English would still be their native language because it is the dominant langusge of the country where they were raised and the language their schooling was in. Most asian Americans do not speak their parents language to the same level of proficiency as people raised in that country. For example the gut from lost spoke Korean with an American accent for the first few seasons. I could tell because I was actually living in Korea when lost first started airing and I could hear the difference. I also knew many Korean Americans that csme over to learn how to speak the language fluently because, before then, they would always mix english in with the Korean to make up for gaps in their knowledge. So English is actually their native language even if they spoke their parents language first.

melodramatic7904 Native language is synonymous to mother tongue (first language). These Asian-Americans who grew up learning two languages at the same time regardless of their proficiency in one of them are called simultaneous bilinguals. You can say that their native languages are both the language spoken at home and the language spoken outside (in this case, English).

Kate Hu No. Your native language is the one you're taught at home

That is a common misconception. Let me give you two examples as to why native language does NOT equal you first language and neither does your mother tongue. I know two people one born to Koreans and one born to latinos. Both spoke Korean and Spanish first, respectively. The Korean person was raised in Canada and the Spanish person was raised in the usa. However, in both cases educators told their parents that they would be confused if they spoke Korean or Spanish at home and English at school and so both set of parents stopped speaking in Korean or Spanish. By the time I met them, neither friend spoke or understood one word of Korean or Spanish, only English. By your (plural) definition. Korean or Spanish would still be considered their mother tongue or native language. You see how those definitions don't work? Your mother tongue or native language is your (general) default language. That means it can change in small children the way it did with my friends. It also means English is the native language for most asian Americans. People who truly have two native languages like Hilary Utada (English/Japanese) are extremely rare because most people never become proficient enough in the minority language for it to be considered native. Btw, I have seen that japanese do seem to have a system to create people who truly have two native language. They set up Saturday Japanese schools. So they go to their regular school during the week and then go to a school where all the educators speak only Japanese on Saturdays. Then most parents force those children to attend university in Japan. Anyone who went through this would truly have two native languages. However, most don't Like I said, most Korean Americans I know had to go to Korea in order to learn how to speak Korean at a native level. The same for most of my Chinese, Spanish, Italian, and any other friends who grew up speaking one language at home and another at school . English ended up being their native language because that is the language they default to when speaking. That is the language they use to fill in the gaps in their knowledge of their parents language. What they spoke at home is called kitchen spanish/Korean/chinese.

Literally all of my relatives on both sides speak Spanish and somehow through pure osmosis I was suppose to pick it up as a kid, never being spoken to in anything other than English.

Try not to judge too harshly... I used to think that too, but as it turns out, there are other factors. Chief among them is assimilation, intentional or forced.

@@saintbrush4398 but do you speak Spanish? I have two co-workers and their situations are like you. one of them barely speak Spanish and he said he got laughed at every time he go to Mexico to visit grandparents and relatives. The other girl speaks a just fine for everyday stuff and she can watch Spanish tv. But according to her, she said her relatives can tell she has American accent or something.

Also kids pretending not to speak it to "fit in" with locals.

Recently talked to a coworker who is Cuban who's parents didn't teach him Spanish because "they didn't want me to be bullied and teased at school". They never talked Spanish at home. Doesn't make sense to me.

key bitch, you thirsty

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Yep. Too bad Negan killed him 😒

Boy if she said he’s cute and u say She thirsty thank bitch IM FUCKING DEHYDRATED BECAUSE HE IS HOT AF

key I agree. Steven is sexy. Love

What do you call them instead? Just curious

We call them おじいちゃん Ojichan

@@user-le1qj1gi2i oh...ty!

Really? I spend childhood in niigata, and i used to call next door grama and grandpa to jiji(ジジ) and baba(ババ). Was it okay cause they werent related to me? Im little bit confused. Well they were like actual granparents to me. They almost raised me. I still miss them a lot to after i came back korea like 20years ago. I still remember and call them jiji and baba. Can you correct me?

@@lizjyh Hey Yoonha! I think it’s ok because じじ is deferent from じじい (I know it’s confusing lol). I hear じーじ or ばーば a lot and they are just cute ways to say grandpa and grandma in Japanese. However じじい and ばばあ sound insulting to me.

If you CAN STILL use that language, that is. regardless what language your parents talked to you when you're a toddler, if you CAN'T use that language in a decent capacity, you CAN'T call it your mother tongue, as there's a certain fluency requirement to the term. it just becomes a language that you learned to a certain degree & has almost forgotten entirely.

Or maybe mother tongue. Your language at home.

@@FalconWindblader It doesn't matter if you lost the ability to speak it. It doesn't matter if you never spoke it. It doesn't change the fact that it is your mother-tongue. If you lost the ability to speak your first language, is it not your first language? If I spoke German for the first 8 yrs of my life and swapped to Mandarin, then lost most of my knowledge of the language, is it no longer the first language I spoke? Assume my parents were German, did it somehow magically become a language my mother didn't speak simply because I forgot most of the language? Who made these rules that you can or cant use these terms unless you retain a certain fluency? The only time fluency applies is if you are applying for a job and the question asks this with the purpose to see if you know more than one language. It's an indirect question, which is why many employers have changed the nature of those questions by simply asking if a person is bilingual and what is their preferred language/ most fluent language. This term is a synonym to first language or native language, but they are different terms for a reason. None of these terms REQUIRE fluency, they IMPLY fluency. "Mother Tongue" is the term that implies fluency the least of all 3. Now you may have an OPINION that says otherwise, but ppl no longer fluent in their mother tounge, can still address the language as such and wouldn't be wrong, though YOU may find it misleading.

@@cimsim597 If you wanna keep to a dictionary definition that apparently no longer applies to reality, be my guest. You can go out & try to tell others that your mother tongue, your first language being German, make NO explanations or whatsoever, & see if anyone, even JUST ONE, who doesn't think right away that you're capable of speaking German at least conversationally. Who made the rules huh? SOCIETY did.

@@FalconWindblader The explanation is literally the word. My MOTHER'S language and the language of her ethnic/regional/etc background is [insert language] so it is my MOTHER-TONGUE. The first language I spoke to communicate with ppl was [insert language] so it is my FIRST LANGUAGE. Pretty straightforward. While most ppl tend to be fluent in these languages, it is not ALWAYS THE CASE. It clearly applies to reality, I, the maker of this video, all the ppl who liked my comment, along with all that had no problem in understanding the point in title of this video. You just have a different OPINION that you are entitled to. But this will remain a FACT until this definition changes to specify fluency. I, along with many others, have NOT understood a mother tongue to be a language you MUST and STILL be fluent in. Read some books or watch some movies... There is a trope where ppl learn/relearn their mother tongue on their journey to self realization/acceptance. Your opinion on the definition is recognized by some, but MOST ppl follow the dictionary on this one. So others are not WRONG.

ikr?

His japanese is horrible!!

True! My friend has a better accent than him and she's not even Japanese, it's her third language

it is likely his second language, so--of course--it isn't as good as someone who was raised speaking it. But you KNEW that.

Hahaha

I was so annoyed by it 😭

The american accent is extremely evident in Daniel's korean & he has said that his korean isn't very fluent so he needed to do some brushing up. These are asian-americans, if you expect them to speak their mother-tongue fluently, you'll be expecting too much. Ki Hong Lee & Jeremy Lin are probably the most fluent in their mother-tongue among the people in this video.

MimiXtinaChelleKRow My impression was that the video was about how these people are amazing because they can speak these other languages. I know Steven Yeon doesn't consider himself to be fluent but at least he can passably speak in quite a few situations. Daniel just simply doesn't speak Korean. He studied the lines for the show and that was the extent of his knowledge, at least at that time. I know this for a fact, and that he had a language coach, and later a pronunciation coach on set to help him. I have studied Korean for 8 years and speak Korean at an intermediate level. I know he's really bad at it from my own ear, and when I've seen Korean people watching him speak Korean, they think it's unintelligable too. I just didn't want anyone to think his Korean was decent when he is beginner at best. I like Daniel, and I cheer for him and was really upset about the Hawaii 5-0 pay situation. Just want to make sure he's painted in a truthful light.

Asian americans. If born in the US, then their mother tongue is english.

Yeah, it wasn't natural Korean. He kinda sounded like google translate.

Neither does he have a Busan accent. He just has a foreign Korean accent.

周moro that's exactly what he said

What show was that?

Yah I thought too lmao

@@c.anguiano3124 Days of our Lives, Weekdays on NBC LOL!

Watashi wa gei desu.

Jun G Schiffer because their Japanese is really bad except the lady.

It's because the young guy and gramps used "sayonara" at the end of their conversation.

because they weren't speaking fluently, they both had an accent, .... and bad acting of course lol

pronunciation is just bad. particularly, it is the flow that sounds so awkward

Because it's a soapie lololol

I was born in and had lived in GyeongSangDo for 20 years but his prononciation sounds quiet clumsy . His accent is more like North Korea. I think he may lived in korea for very short period.

I think he cannot speak any Korean without practice...

I believe Daniel dae Kim had to have refreshing lessons in Korean with Yunjin Kim before filming lost

he actually didn't speak standard Korean until filming Lost. in the documentary he says how he had to spend hours learning it.

Daniel Dae Kim could mispronounce the word "frustrated" and I would still think he is one of the most handsome men, ever.

I'm sorry but that wasn't his son😅 It was the other mans son (the foreign/aussie one with him).

Steven's Korean still sounds pretty natural. I'm sure his only problem is limited vocab, but his accent is great.

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If you know about DDK you know in his interveiws he stated he came to USA when he was 5 and due to bullying he really learnt how to.speak english and never really spoke korean after that. I am polish on both sides but was born and raised in Australia and when i speak polish to proper poles who dont know me they dont beleive i am a pole too until i say my name is Łysakowski then they kinda beleive me

화랑 The struggle of being raised in a different country with a completely different language and culture than yours is REAL! I was raised in Australia too and my younger siblings have forgotten our native tongue but I fortunately speak it (thanks to a militant Mum haha). People back in my country of birth/origin just assume that kids that were raised in English-speaking countries can’t speak their mother tongue so they ALWAYS get shocked when I speak to them fluently in my mother tongue. It also doesn’t help that I don’t really look like I am from that country (looks-wise) so when I do speak my mother tongue to someone I’ve never met before, they get double shocked 😂😂

He was born in Busan, but moved to the US when he was a baby.

@S.Young i think you need a dictionary mate

S. Young It doesn’t literally mean his mother’s tongue lol it just means the language he has learned and spoken from his formative early childhood years. It can also mean his first language. Sure he’s Korean and I am sure his parents spoke Korean to him but he made efforts to completely forget Korean and solely speak English at a young age thus his mother tongue/first language is English and not Korean. It’s so unfortunate that he was bullied so bad that he felt the need to completely distance himself from his Korean culture and language but the world is a cruel place and we all find ways to survive. I myself love being multi-lingual and love the fact that I am completely fluent in English (Aussie accent and all lol) despite English not being my 1st or 2nd language. I just wish that he would have had strong role models around him when he was young that would have told him that it’s awesome to speak another language other than English and it’s great to be bi-lingual/multi-lingual.

That’s ridiculous! That scene is hilarious. Stop being offended by everything. It’s called acting, aka it’s not supposed to be real and it’s purposely exaggerated. Do you think it’s also possible for people to switch bodies 🤣

Yeah it was pretty cringe. Her accent was super over the top. She was great in the Joy Luck Club but she took this gig to help pay the bills. Her Chinese is decent but definitely very ABC sounding and not super fluent.

@@saludosalsol u clearly have a horrible sense of humor if u find stuff like that funny 🤣 my mouth didn't even twitch. you want "exaggeration" & overused unfunny jokes, go to a preschool playground :)

julia z. Lol 😂 😂😂

Actually she (her character) doesn’t have any foreign accent at all if you listen to the ‘fortune cookie’ and the ‘she’s crazy’ bits... It’s kind of a common punch line of a typical ‘Asian joke’ that the heavy accent comes on whenever ones want to end a conversation...

I can read 9 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese,Japanese, Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian)i but I only speak 4 of them well (English, Spanish French, and German). Here and there, I know some Greek, Russian, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, African French, and some Jamaican Patois.

IKR! I love "Freaky Friday"! It's hilarious! XD Actually, I think most asian-americans/asian-canadians/asian-australians/asian-british aren't used to speaking their native language. They're definitely more comfortable in english. But I really admire their effort for trying!

Sir. Dave These celebrities are born here though. It's their parents who came over.

Fluid or Fluent

I think many asian-americans/ half asian people are mostly bilingual. Here in hong kong many are trilingual because of mainland china being nearby and hong kong being an international society, although I don't think many people here can speak it too fluently

For the first scene, she has some of the worst accent in Chinese that I have ever heard, and has stressed on the wrong words. I am a Chinese-New Zealander, with most my other friends (not from mainland China) having a much better grasp of the language. Americas education system seems to be over focusing on English and neglecting the importance of bilingualism.

Accented and somewhat awkward, yeah.

Yeah that was bad

another factor is that was an american daytime soap opera. sometimes, the lines that the writers want the actors to say are not natural in normal any conversation. i would still cringe even at the other actors performing in English in other scenes. choice of words, emphasis, syntax, etc It's weird but that is a style of acting in soap opera

@@GenieGin13 Yeah. The son spoke in a very straightforward manner that is the norm here in Europe and America, which totally contrasts with the manner in which japanese people insert superfluous parts into their sentences.

Totally but I attributed it to bad acting

Knightess Dont try so hard to be pc it's annoying.

you must be white.

Knightess Just "ancestral language" will do actually.

Knightess everybody who reads the title knows what the video is about

TheMariemarie16 it’s not self presentation, it’s about accuracy. Mother tongue is incorrect. If you are Asian American your ‘mother tongue’ is English. You could be Asian American and not be able to speak or write any Asian language.

If you can understand Japanese, the scene would be so cringey instead that you might actually puke.

Mindless Girl 143 this was me growing up 😂. Having to translate into something nice

It's clear that someone direct translated that sentence from an English script into Chinese. 疯狂 as used here better describes a situation/behavior than a person. 这个女人疯了 or 这个女人是个疯子 is probably a better translation. Constance Wu's accent is awkward.

Also she speaks Mandarin like it’s her mother tongue

@@SuzanneJen That's the sensational Lucille Soong and yes, having grown up in Beijing, Mandarin is her mother tongue. She definitely looks like she hasn't aged a single day since her appearance on Freaky Friday and it wasn't until recently that I realized she was on Desperate Housewives too. Her reputation definitely precedes her.

@@SuzanneJen Duh cuz it is her mother tongue lmao

IYang Oh! It must be the awkward Chinese lines that she often has to say in the show Fresh Off the Boat that made me think maybe Mandarin wasn’t her first language.

@@SuzanneJen she speaks perfect mandarin in fresh off the boat, her lines are just standard mandarin speaking.

wait...dbsk?!?!?!? do you mean kpop band?😂😂😂

The Mariam ohh i see 😂

😂😂😂😂😂😂

DBSK...were you a Cassiopeian? Somehow it feels so nostalgic.

what show is this?

Actually, that scene was kind of famous in Korea for a while. It was a little americanized so sounded not very natural. Very interesting scene though.

He's actually 31.

Right? You can hear how American Daniel's is

Always thought it was weird that Daniel Dae Kim was supposed to portray a native Korean when his accent is so strong. That clip was super funny though! 😂 Can't remember the actress's name, but the one who played his wife in that series is native and speaks perfect Korean and perfect English. I have hr film "Shiri" but I haven't watched it yet.

kim yunjin l has her in shiri and yesterday and as for daniel dae kim while yes he was born in busan korea he and his family moved to bethlehem, pennsylvania when he was a yr old so he didna grow up really speaking it so he had to relearn it for his role as jin

Born in Costa Rica, his native language is actually Spanish.

Shum is a common surname in Hong Kong... I've never heard of a Korean surname Shum before. Most Koreans are Kim, Park or Lee.

Katherine - actually his native language is Spanish because he is from Costa Rica. That's part of the problem with mis-naming this video. Generally linguists (and I have a Linguistics background) say "mother-tongue" to refer to the language of an ethnic heritage. Native tongue is meant by the "nationality". They even have the same prefix of nat- referring to birth. So as an example, I was born in California, USA and thus my native language is English. I am of Puerto Rican descent, so my mother-tongue is Spanish, which I speak fluently. Any additional language is a foreign language. I speak 2 foreign languages: Italian and Russian. So if someone is born in Korea and ethnically Korean, then Hangul is both their native and mother-tongue.

Noemi P. It's cool that you know about hangul! But it's just the name of our alphabet :) it'd be like saying you speak abc instead of English or Spanish.

me too OMG. His facial features are so Korean.

They've written mother tongue now which I think is more suitable.

"Problematic" is a meaningless word, and the people who use it are stupid and should be ignored on every topic.

@@rihana21x You'd better look up the definition of mother tougue in the dictionary.

scartissuex1 Usually because Americans can't wait to tell you that they're a quarter Irish, quarter German, eighth Polish...or whatever. You never have to guess xD

klalakomacoi Problematic = I'm offended on behalf of other people because I like to feel morally superior, despite there being far more important things to be genuinely upset by in the world.