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 Rhiannon Brooksbank, 19, is so dedicated to mastering Korean that she recently had her unusually short tongue lengthened so she could improve her pronunciation, The Telegraph reported.

《逐日电讯》专访，19 岁的年纪的Rhiannon Brooksbank非常努力的想学好韩语，于是近期做手术把自己比凡人短的舌头增长了来进步自己的发音水平。

Learning to speak a foreign language requires painstaking practice, and if that doesn't work, it might be time to for minor, yet painful oral surgery.

学英语需要勤加训练，可是呢,努力训练仍旧收效甚微的话，那么你可能需要做一个小小的口部手术了，即使会有些疼。

Brooksbank took up Korean two years ago and quickly became obsessed. Despite her best efforts, her accent failed to develop. Her dentist advised that the problem might be coming from her thicker-than-average lingual frenulum.

Brooksbank两年前开始学习韩语，并非常快痴迷上了韩语。尽管她花了非常大精力来学习，可是呢,白话水平仍是上不去。她的牙医说白话水平上不去的原因可能是她的舌系带比一般人的要厚。

After consulting with her parents and language tutor, Brooksbank to undergo a simple operation known as a lingual frenectomy, which involves making an incision in the skin where the tongue is attached. Rhiannon's tongue is now 1 cm longer, and she can pronounce words that she couldn't before the surgery.

在与爸爸妈妈与语言教师协商之后，Brooksbank做了一个舌系带切除术——在舌头与皮肤接触处做一个切口。现在Rhiannon的舌头比之前要长1厘米，手术前不能发的音也能发出来了。

Brooksbank-Jones told the Telegraph more about the procedure's results:

Brooksbank-Jones向《逐日电讯》描述手术成效时说：

'I'd been learning Korean for about two years, and my speaking level is now high, but I was really struggling with particular sounds. My pronunciation was very 'foreign', but now I can speak with a native Korean accent. The surgical procedure was my only option. It's not like you can stretch your tongue otherwise. I just decided enough was enough. For me it was an important thing, because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and if I can't do it perfectly, it really irritates me."

“我已经学了2年韩语了，我现在的白话水平也到一定水平了，可是呢,以前某些音我要非常努力去发也发不好。这种情况导致我的白话非常‘外国’，可是呢,现在我的口音就非常隧道了。”手术是我独一的抉择，只能用这种办法。重要是由于我是个完美主义者，没法完美的发音对我来说是个非常严峻的题目，简直让我抓狂。”