Niha, a Sri Lankan Australian was being brought up in multilingual environments both at home and school. He spoke Tamil with his parents, English at school, and Korean with a couple of his Korean friends and through K-dramas.
He also points out another key reason that he is has been able to learn Korean readily must arise from the similarity between Korean and Tamil in terms of phonemic system, namely, pronunciation.
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