Hi guys, I'm reading this book called Than Dong Dat Viet
which means Vietnamese genius from Vietnamese prodigy.
And I heard from the producers today we're going to have a Vietnamese prodigy to come to our studio.
His name is called the Google Boy, the Google Guy.
I wonder what talent can you really have with Google
Are you excited to find out?
I'm excited too
So let's see what this guy's talent is so that he's called the Google boy.
Let's go
If you've watched some of our shows on VTV, you might have heard of two shows
Viet Nam's Brainiest kid as well as The Road to Olympia.
Now if you've watched both those shows, you probably have heard a boy called the Google Boy
Let's have a chat with him and see what his journey is
and what advice he has to share with all of us
Hi Minh, how is it going?
Nice, thank you. How are you?
I'm good
You really learned how to read at a young age at 16 and a half months old?
Yes, I was told that by my parents
Did you ever feel special growing up?
At a young age I did do a little bit special and due to that I tried to separate myself from my friends, my classmates
But as I grow, I realized that I'm just a normal boy as other people
Therefore I try to be more outgoing and try to communicate and to open more with my classmates
People call you the Google Boy, do you identify with that term?
There are a lot of Google boys around the world and I don't think that I can be identified with that term
I also don't think that I'm suitable for that term
Because Google like a big sea of knowledge and information.
I am like a tiny drop of water in that ocean.
I don't think that I am very suitable for the term the Google boy
People named you the Google boy it's because you have a vast collection of knowledge
Where do you get all of this knowledge from?
I get my knowledge mostly by studying at school
but I also read books and search the internet for information during my free time
and I also watch TV shows and watch news to find out what happens around the world
Do you think this is something that's you doing it or your parents that are the ones that are pushing you?
What do you think are the reasons for your good work and study habits?
Both of those had affected me to build my study habits
At a young age I was a lazy boy so my parents tried to make me study harder
but when I became more mature I realized the importance of study and learning for my future
So I started to study more
How much time actually do you spend studying per day?
If you ask me about the time I spent for studying
I will say only about one to three hours.
But you asked me when I'm not learning, I will say most of my day
It seems to me that you spend a lot of your youth learning
because I think you mentioned something that's extremely important: learning is different from studying, right?
And learning is constantly learning
So you spent a lot of your time your youth learning and studying
Now that you're a young adult, how do you envision yourself continuing to learn or continuing to study?
One thing that I have to continue to study and to learn is social skill
Because I spend a lot of time studying and learning like on the book, learning knowledge
But I did not spend much time on developing my social skill
I'm now in grade 12 and I'm 17 years old
So I'm starting to become an adult
and social skills are very important for any adults
So I have to try to develop my social skill so that I can be more successful
When it comes to social skills, I think I love the fact that you're so honest about all the things that you need to develop
because a lot of the times people deem you as this genius as, this prodigy, as this person who can answer any question
But at the same time we're all human beings and we all have our insecurities and we all have certain things that we need to work on
and I'm very happy that you're able to share all this with our audience
Now can you give our audience a couple of tips?
and this can be tips on how to study better, tips on how to learn better
About tips for studying better, I just have one word
Focus
If you can focus on your study, you will achieve a lot of good work and about learning you don't have to learn hard
Because learning is not just about on the book
it's about getting new skills and new knowledge from every source else
So I think that the most important is you have to be informed about everything that happens around you
This will help you get knowledge even when you don't recognize that you did get it
But sometimes it will pop out and you will be able to use it for good use
Now you're one of those people that stuck out to me as a person who is quite fluent, English is not an easy language.
how did you learn English?
I started to know about English from my study at school
At first I was very bad at English
but after a about two or three years learning at school with very low score at English
One of my relatives who worked for an international organization
and had a very good English skill decided to spend her time to train for me
After the training with her, I can say that I am much better at English
From that time to now, I have study English harder because I also recognized the importance of English in the world
I know you did share with me that you're super interested to be a chemical researcher in the future
and I'm sure English is gonna be something that's gonna help you a lot
I think it's great it's been a great conversation.
Now if you were to basically want me to ask you any question, what will you want me to ask you?
I don't think that I want to answer any more question
Okay if we don't want to ask any more questions and it's the perfect time for us to actually go onto the next section
where you'll get a chance to be faced off with a couple of challenges
So guys IELTS Challenge coming right up next
This is our face off challenge
and we're gonna start off with a very simple challenge
It's called the indifference game and the purpose of the indifference game is for me to ask you ten questions
and you're not allowed to answer to the question
You have to answer it differently
Clear?
Yeah.
Let's start.
okay Minh, are you ready?
I'm ready
What's your favourite color?
Fish.
How many pyramids are there in Egypt?
Black.
Well you're fast, you're good.
What do you do in your free time?
Five.
You slow down there.
When did you start to study English?
10 o'clock.
That's wrong, that's answering to the question.
Which country do you want to travel to?
No.
Which song do you usually sing?
No.
Do you like Michael Jackson?
Oh, you answer to the question.
It's quite counterintuitive, isn't it?
okay let's go move on to the next question. How old is your father?
Great.
What does APEC mean? APEC.
Five.
I think you know the thing yes/no questions you suffer the most of it.
Yeah I'm stumble wait they have no question.
Do you think that was a difficult exercise for you?
It's a difficult exercise because it's hard to think differently from what you hear.
Okay but there's one thing that I'm super curious about as well and I want to kind of ask you.
I want to kind of test out your googling skills, your Google knowledge skills.
Is that okay?
I think this okay.
Okay so what's Viet Nam's land area?
331.210 kilometers square.
Is this correct?
What is the sixth member of Pi?
Like the sixth number or the sixth decimal number?
The six decimal number.
Two.
Sixth - decimal number of Pi is two?
What about the tenth decimal number?
Nine.
The tenth decimal number of Pi is nine?
You are absolutely correct.
Did you do calculation or did you just pull up your memory?
I just try to pull it out from my memory.
I'm scared now.
Okay what year was the Mona Lisa painted?
Based on my knowledge and what I have read I think that the Mona Lisa was paint by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century.
This is crazy.
He's correct.
I want that ability as well.
Okay so his tip is to focus and to practice and practice and practice.
All right thanks so much for coming onto the show.
We had a lot of fun talking to you.
And I'm so glad that we had a chance to meet.
I think you'll do amazing things in the future.
Thank you.
All right guys next up is the expert section.
So let's move on to the IELTS expert.