英国一名19岁的女生因痴迷韩国文化而苦学韩语，但是因为舌头比一般人短，致使她韩语发音一直不能很地道，为此，她特意通过外科手术将舌头拉长。据悉，这名女生两年前通过同学接触韩国流行文化和电视节目后开始痴迷，苦学两年韩语后已经达到了很高的水平，但是因为舌头天生偏短，她一直不能很好的发出韩语里的L这个音。咨询过语言导师并征得父母同意后，她进行了舌系带切开术，舌头长度由此增加了1厘米，原来不可能发出来的音，现在都能发得很好。目前，她正在等待A-level考试（类似于国内高考）成绩，希望能进入谢菲尔德大学学习韩国研究与工商管理课程，因为这个课程有一年是要去韩国首都首尔的一所大学完成的。

Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones dreams of living and working in South Korea once she finishes university, even though she has never visited the country.

Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones dreams of living and working in South Korea once she finishes university, even though she has never visited the country.

But while taking language lessons, the 19-year-old found that she couldn't pronounce certain crucial sounds in the Korean alphabet.

Her dentist suggested it may be because she was born with a slightly shorter than average tongue, caused by having an unusually thick lingual frenulum - the flap of skin that joins the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth.