Always impressed by ppl who can speak multiple languages and such diverse ones at that ! Must be hard for kids now but hopefully it will come in handy for them later on
I had to speak 3 languages when I was a child, trust me it's not only hard as a child, as an adult now, who speaks 5 languages I always get confused lol
I learnt 5 as a child and those have always been my best languages, I've recently expanded to nine There is a period where you are a child where you learn and remember things exceptionally fast, and what you learn in that period might as well determine what you're best at. It's actually not too hard if you build a habit of practising your languages since you have to immerse yourself in the language(For example, I had Indonesian helpers all my life, a common thing in Hong Kong. That's where I picked up Indonesian)
As some1 who lives where people can easily speak 3 or more languages, I can tell you it has nothing to do with intelligence or skill, just birth circumstances
I feel like most people in Asian, Africa, Australia and Europe know at least two languages. I speak French, Swedish and English and those languages were taught to me as a child
I'm so glad to see that these kids are adapting to school in a completely different country pretty well even though they don't know the main language! It's so heartwarming to see. Also, Dima is such a good boy. Wish him never lose his confidence 화이팅!
@@hugmeplease7775 у них мозг испытывает кислородное голодание изо дня в день. Здоровые клетки мозга превращаются в больные и мертвые. Но если вам нормально так ходить - это ваше полное право. Детей отркровенно жаль.
@@familypoodle1402 На самом деле нет. Нет подтверждений того, что маски вызывают гипоксию, гипоксемию или гиперкапнию, более того, это утверждение было опровергнуто независимыми фактчекерами и ВОЗ. Хирурги, например, длительное время носят маски на работе, но никаких исследованиях о возникновении у них вышеперечисленных состояний или связанных с этим заболеваниях нет, потому что ношение маски не вызывает их. ВОЗ (Всемирная организация здравоохранения) уже достаточно давно опровергла этот бред про кислородное голодание мозга от ношения масок - ношение маски, даже длительное, не вызывает интоксикации углекислым газом или кислородной недостаточности. Зато помогает остановить быстрое распространение коронавируса и других вирусных заболеваний. Не распространяйте, пожалуйста, дезинформацию.
a lot of kids may be made to feel ashamed of their different ethnic backgrounds, but actually they'll soon learn its a blessing. being mixed and growing up with another culture lets you learn a lot and will definitely open a lot of doors for you in the future! i hope these kids carry on to be bright souls! :)
This documentary is very interesting. Different cultures different lives different tongues melted in one pot ♥️ thank you for beaming the spotlight to multicultural families ♥️🙇🏻♀️
o wow! so fun to watch it. I'm myself from Kyrgyzstan and also moved to America at the young age. It was hard to adapt at first and having friends. Plus American schools have some to no Russians, so I had to teach my self English essentials like grammars and words. But these kids have so much support and very nice teachers! Hope everyone can get comfortable in Korea and spread more awareness about other central asian countries like Kyrgyzstan! 🌸 Thank you K-Doc for making video about Russian speaking families (people) 😌
Привет из Бишкека! Как Вам там в Америке живется?😄 Тоже хочу переехать, в идеале в Корею, но не могу найти пути как это сделать… Удачи Вам там и всех благ!❤
Wow another kyrgyz person! Its pretty rare that i see other people from kyrgyzstan on the internet, how is america like? I live in italy and my mom wants to go live in the usa, i'm kinda against it because i can't imagine leaving the place where i was born and also because of the things i heard from it😓
3:10 I notice that the worlds are written in Korean in the 1st column, in English in the 2nd, and in Russian in the 3rd but also with how they're pronounced in Korean so that the classmates can understand each other! The teachers are doing a great job here!
I laughed so hard when I saw the writings on the whiteboard. They definitely came from post-soviet countries 🤣🤣🤣 Вспомнила свои школьные года благодаря этому видео
@@NoopyP In fact, Russian men marry a lot of foreign women, but for some reason my guess was in the opposite direction. Russian Ivan +French Emma=you. Are u living Paris?
Korea has a Koryo-saram special visa program. They extended it to 4th generation. Ethically the right thing to do + can do a small part for population growth.
Isn’t it when you have a grand parent who have a korean passport and you live abroad, you get that visa to enter Korea and live there? It’s the best idea as Korea have low birthrate and will need young workforce. They will assimilate and integrate faster.
@@YouYou-sm8tf grandparents only need to show their birth certificate that says they’re Korean. Unfortunately most of the adult Koryo saram don’t want to learn the language and assimilate and end up working as unskilled laborers in factories
@@nathanmerritt1581 because most of the adults who grew up in post-soviet countries embraced the Russian language and culture so much they feel more Russian than Korean. Most adults go to Korea to make money and send it back home to their families or if they bring their kids with them, they usually don’t plan on staying in Korea forever. Now, the kids who will actually grow up in Korea might change this trend.
@@bibbiya i get you. I am a Turk from Turkey and our Turkic people from Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan and other Turkic countries are the same. They call themselves Russian but never Turk. They work in Turkey and send the money to their country. I am a Korean Language student in college and we have a lot of Turkic students at school that speak Russian constantly. They don't speak Turkic languages so we can't understand them.
I wonder if their teachers understand what is written there. In addition, their Russian translation of the schedule definitely requires a good proofreader.
Looool I wonder, what do those hieroglyphs on the top mean? Those ones that are written with «говно»-shit. Possibly kids don’t really like their teachers as much as they claimed
I am Russian, but I have been living in Spain for the third year. I understand that this is not comparable in complexity to Korean but.. when I came here and went to school, my knowledge of Spanish was so poor that I couldn't write sentences properly. my English was not very good for communication. I understand how difficult it is to study in another country in another language... I'm still not as good as I could be and still don't have any Spanish friends, but I'll get better. gracias por atención.
@@machirim2805 yeah dude this Russian person that has been living in Spain since before the pandemic is solely responsible for their government's actions. a totally unrelated comment where they merely mentioned their nationality is a great time to remind them of what their motherland is doing, regardless of how they feel about it or what they can do about it. or wait. no, no, you are actually totally correct! I suspect you may have accidentally come across Putin's RU-vid account of course he wouldn't register as Putin, so instead he chose a nickname and used a JoJo character as his avatar, you know, to stay anonymous. thankfully, you have now told him to stop bombing Ukraine, so he will definitely reconsider that and will likely stop in a few hours. what would the world do without your comment. you done saved us all.
Ahhh, this episode is so motivating to learn this beautiful language 😊 Keep fighting, guys, you will achieve the language fluency soon! Warm greetings from Kazakhstan ❤
:( As the child of a first-gen immigrant, I feel so bad for the class presidents having to be interpreters at such a young age, but they'll go far in life :)
Ethnically Korean yes but they are overseas Koreans from the former Soviet Union republics (Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, etc.) that moved back to Korea. No doubt they speak Russian. It is no different if Korean Americans or Korean Canadians (also overseas Koreans) moved back to Korea, their first language will be English (possibly French if from Quebec) if their Korean American/Canadian parents never taught them Korean or never spoke Korean themselves.
Uzbeks,Kazakhs,Krygyz etc starting to lose their Turkic language and now most of the population speaks just Russian. I wonder is the ethnic Koreans their speaks a little bit Turkic as well as I notice the kid Altum has a Turkic name(his name means golden)
Hanam?! That is NOW the hometown of the Park siblings(Aciel, Elyseen, Eden Park). Based on what Park Jooho said on one episode of Return of Superman. And I believe the kids' grandparents live in this town also.
I wouldn't be surprised. The parents have always raised their kids well and I'm sure they considered it'd be beneficial for their kids to be around other mixed children. It makes sense to be located near a community like this, where there are foreign-born children or 4th-gen mixed or other circumstance. Naeun is good at switching between languages but her brothers struggled a little more. They were definitely more comfortable with English and German at one point before Korean. But it's all good for them. They'll use Korean in school and in public while at home they practice English, German, and Spanish
Hanam where the Parks live is in Gyeonggi-do near Seoul and this elementary school is in Gwangju metropolitan city where there is a big Koryoin village.
Honestly, I grew up in Singapore so when i moved back to the Philippines it was really hard for me to learn tagalog, I felt judged when I came back because I was in the foreigners class and took grade 3 filipino, my parents never really taught me my language and I lived in Singapore for most of my life, I've lived there for like 2 years and no longer live there anymore, but yeah I didn't have any friends and people would look at me weirdly because of that :/
We have in Germany something like a special class too. We call it intensive Klasse (at my school) I was never there, because I’ve been good at German my entire life. There are many different types of kids who have problems to read and write in German. When they get better at it, the school translates them into regular classes. English is my third language, sorry if I’m bad at picking words and spelling.
I read that years ago many Koryo-saram were not interested in 'becoming Korean' or visiting Korea, but that all changed when Korean TV and K-pop became popular.
@@kalvin1123 Not rich, more of an upper-middle income country, they have similar gdp per capita with Italy since a few years ago (33k usd in 2022), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
Yea alot of soviet koreans moved to northern parts and east europe bc of the war and korea was poor at that time. Alot of koreans in russia or kazakhstan now take pride in being korean because of kpop
Такая уютная школа и атмосфера там невероятно прекрасная и приятная... Я так хочу учиться в подобной школе Но прошу меня простить, Я ПРОСТО ТАК ПРООРАЛАСЬ НА МОМЕНТЕ С ДОСКОЙ ХПВПВ 3:18
My old sneaky link is a Koryo Saram [ethnically Korean but culturally Russian]. He has no connection to his Korean roots aside from ethnically identifying as a Korean 🤷🏻♀️
Ну дети всегда дети, хаха 3:18 For foreigns: at this moment we cleary see some...bad words xD like "shit", "pis eater", "the penis of the beaver" ant etc:D Я думаю, что Дима очень скоро забудет русский язык, он уже говорит с неправильным ударением и немного заторможено, а вот корейский, если судить по звуку, у него очень даже
Something similar happens here where I live. I live in the border of U.S with Mexico and there was a bilingual/English as a second language program with kids from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Philippines, Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba etc.
lol I cannot with the ignorant subtitles. People who were forcefully moved away from their homes and humiliated and/or tortured.... They "migrated"? Wtf. So disrespectful towards the millions who literally died while "migrated" during that period. Their ancestors didn't move for fun. Disgusting how they misrepresent history. (Disclaimer: some of my family also had to "migrate". Read: most of my family who lived during that era were killed, it's a miracle that I even exist.)
When I saw the “Ethnic Koreans” in the title, I expected to see ethnically Korean kids mostly in the video. But turns out the Part 1 shows us ethnically non-Korean kids like Uzbek or Kyrgyz who are genetically Turkic kids. However it’s a beautiful video, with beautiful kids who can speak more than one language. Hope they can speak their mother tongue as well 🥰✨
When I first started school in the US, it was required that I attended ESL classes for about 2-3 years, iirc. I remember being frustrated because apparently I wasn't pronouncing the words "cat" and "kite" correctly, lol. Now, I barely speak my mother tongue unless absolutely necessary and people are surprised I wasn't born here, lol.
if im not mistaken, i read somewhere that he grew up in uzbekistan and probably spent his childhood there and he moved to korea when he was 11 or smth (probably after he graduated from elementry) i could be wrong tho
3:10 Correction: Most Koryo-In didn't "migrate" as this suggests; they were forcibly deported from Russia's Far East to Central Asia during the Stalinist Period for fear of Japanese influence. Many died along the way, and those who survived often struggled in their new environment. There probably are Koreans who willingly migrated to the former Soviet Union,, however the vast majority have ancestors who were forcibly removed against their will.
this reminds me of my elementary school. we had esl(english as second language) classes for kids who didn't speak English well. and they would have that as a class during the school day. it was mostly Spanish speaking kids but there were a couple kids who spoke Somali.
I am ethnically Chinese born in Malaysia and I consider myself a foreigner in China. Same as I consider non Malaysian Chinese as foreigners too. Foreigner is about being from a different country.
Because they are from another country, even if they share ancestry, fundamentally they will still have differences due to different upbringing and environment.
This isn't the weird part that's normal. The strange part is calling ethnically diverse children born and raised in Korea their whole lives a foreigner
A lot of Soviet Koreans are celebritites in sports like Dmytri Bivol a boxing champion who just beat the pound for pound boxing legend Canelo Alverez, then we have the famous Triple G whos considered the greatest middle weight boxer ever and of course Kosta Tsuyu another boxing legend from the late 90s.
Well I like languages now I'm learning English as my second language I'm 20 so I think I'm too late to become polygot with 8 language but I hope I can learning them before I become in my 30 It's so sad that in my country we don't have these vision to learning something not popular from young age but I will try my best
Completely different from the schools I used to go here in my country... I feel like here, the more you grow older, more the classes will look like a prison. I wish I had after-hour classes like them, I wouldn't have minded and probably would've learned much more than I know. The schools just make us memorize the subjects so that we can make a highschool exam and pass to an University, but I don't think any of that was useful. Nobody taught us how to make formal documents, how to do first aid, and stuff like that..
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