BABYMONSTER - Rora and Pharita (Lost in MPK Reaction)

[@jbiehl8478]

Pharita went to an international school in Thailand. That's why she's fluent in English, albeit with a Thai accent. She only learned Korean upon arriving there as a trainee.

[@Nack.D.Trevano]

Does she have a Thai accent? Nah not at all, Thai accent is not like that.

[@jbiehl8478]

@@Nack.D.Trevano I gathered it from the Last Evaluation Behind The Scene part 1. She was reading her birthday message to Ahyeon in English. Her English was very good, but there was a slight, and I emphasize a slight accent. She being Thai, I automatically called it a Thai accent. Again, albeit a very slight one.

[@jbiehl8478]

Pharita is very talented. Her problem is she's too much of an introvert and she was once a runway model. Models are trained to keep a cold and expressionless look. So when she's not focused, she'll revert back to her model stare and that takes away from her performance. She's improved a lot. She's been posting a lot on social media and you can see how much livelier her dances have been. Right now, many are sleeping on her, primarily because of how great the other members are. She's kind of like Jisoo who in the beginning was very much in the shadows of the other members. But we see how much Jisoo is loved right now, so I hope the same for Pharita.

[@NoelMcGinnis]

Most countries in Asia teach English in school. Not as an elective, but a mandatory course. How good they get at it just depends on how much they use it. All seven members speak English, to varying degrees. Pharita is one of the best at it.

[@hikun3831]

Yeah but mostly South Korea, Japan and other Asian countries are not that fluent in English. Well they teach English but most of them cannot speak of it.

[@NoelMcGinnis]

@@hikun3831 They also teach it in Thailand and Taiwan in elementary school. Many parts of China as well. They aren’t fluent simply because they seldom have a chance to use it and we forget quickly. I lived in Korea for years and spoke it fairly well, but I have forgotten most of it from lack of use. I still remember some, but only the common phrases and things I hear frequently on shows. Now I speak more Tagalog from being married to a Filipina for so many years.

[@풀썬-g5s]

​@@hikun3831 I'm korean and I can speak english pretty well. My friends too. Students who studied hard can speak english comfortably in asia too. It depends on person.

[@renehoyvik]

The biggest disadvantage most people living elsewhere when it comes to learning English, is that they are mostly taught by people who don't speak it fluently. So while most people now understand and write English perfectly, most speak with a local accent. Also not using it regularly will often cause your accent do degrade even if you once spoke it fluently. I went to private school when i lived abroad in my teenage years, so back then i had a fluent accent (though more American, not British) but having now lived back in Norway for 18 years my verbal English has degraded severely.

[@Excusas]

RORA ❤ SUCHS A TALENTED GIRL

[@africawai3555]

I think you are the only reactor who takes notes while watching the video, I am really appreciated it. Respect ! They are world class talented, I know it's hard to find your bias. But my favorites are ASA, Pharita and Chiquita. Can't wait their debut ! The foreign trianees take speech class while they are in their training years. Pharita, I remembered she attended international school in Thailand, tats why her English is quite good as well. ( Please correct me if I am wrong )

[@pachii1943]

Pharita my bias❤

[@jbiehl8478]

Lots of countries have international schools, which many young idols have attended before becoming trainees. They're expensive of course. Rora being Korean went to a typical Korean school. Generally speaking, foreign trainees drop out of school entirely and are taught by their agency. To what extent? I guess that would depend on the agency and the age of the idol. Jennie once expressed her regrets in missing out on the high school experience. Likewise with Rose' who skipped out on her last two years.

[@Analogue70]

Chiquita sill study in Thailand school by homeschool base programe.

[@daybyday9227]

Pharita is born in August 26, 2005🇹🇭💖💘 - The winner of street dance junior from IDOL WORLD DANCE CUP in korea - she is MISS POPULAR VOTE(miss teen thailand) - Talent kids & teen 2018 - ASIA JUNIOR FASHION RUNWAY 2018 - Grand prize, Shell international fashion show 2019 in China - Cash asian pacific Art Fest 2019 - Global fashion show 2019

[@jbiehl8478]

Foreign parents are never with the trainees. You hear of many foreign idols discussing their struggles of being away from family during their earl training years. Lisa and Rose' have mentioned it many times.

[@CheezDaBoss]

Here again. Thank you for doing this and allowing me to experience the excitement of meeting these girls again. Rose of Blackpink had said, in one of their interviews, that they lived in the dorms with other trainees and away from home. Jennie expressed that she wished she could have lived at home while training in the YG program( Netflix documentary). Jennie also said that these monthly evaluations were very harsh and filled with criticism( "Being told to your face and having to hold it all together"). Rose said, same Netflix documentary, that "everything I did was wrong"

[@hikun3831]

Most of the foreign trainees are actually homeschooled well incase for YGE, for example Chiquita & Pharita, but their teacher is from thailand.

[@AuliaAnastasia]

RORA!!!!

[@renehoyvik]

@ 8:05 : I believe foreign trainees can choose to get private tutoring at YG in their own language so the language barrier doesn't harm their grades, or they can go to Korean Private school near the YG building once they get comfortable with the language. YG mandates their trainees to finish 10th grade so they at least have a basic high-school education. After 10th grade they can choose if they want to complete their high-school diploma or focus on music. YG also offers dorms and private schooling for their Korean trainees, so Rora living with her parents 2 hours away and going to her normal school is probably her parent's choice. Or her own, wanting to stay in school with her friends.

[@yanzkie2781]

Usually in southeast Asia English is a mandatory subject starting in elementary school. And it's depends on the students if they would use it. But most of people either understand or speak basic and can communicate well in English.😎

[@teumon]

Actually they are always accompanied by their manger that acts like their guardians. And yg allows their parents to visit their chilldren anytime.

[@jackdheb7071]

Many Thai's name are in Sansakrit root. So they are written in English of Sansakrit way. millenniums ago those [BH] [PH] [DH] had their own pronunciation but those sounds were lost along the way in timeline. 'Pharita' is one of those and yes ... the pronunciation is [Parita]. You might think it's weird but that way of writing played a huge role in Philology such as [Deva] in english were from [Dheva] in Sansakrit which, in Thai, the pronunciation is [Tewa] or [Elephant] which came from [Erawan] in Sansakrit. In Philology the sound of P-F-V-W-B (and the Indian P sound which not exist in English but you might heard it from Italian) are the same group of sound that can change to one another from area to another during the evolution of languages. ^ ^

[@marksmith8210]

Yea...same as pronouncing Phuket.

[@wiinnnn___]

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