Grading Twice’s Korean | Sana & Momo

[@JDH9626]

As a korean I respect people who learn korean bcz i know it is hard to learn 화이팅!!!ㅎㅎ

[@chocolatebanana8375]

Thanks for being kind

[@JDH9626]

@@maryambahakim2125 😊

[@JDH9626]

@@chocolatebanana8375 😊👍👍

[@kkalmatchoom761]

No, its hard at first before start learning but then it's easy, it's my opinion,

[@chocolatebanana8375]

@@kkalmatchoom761 yeah but after learning 한글 and some basics it's not hard anymore

[@ToAllthegoodThings]

Sana actively tries to improve her Korean even today. When she’s aware of a pronunciation mistake or when she finds a word she doesn’t know she’ll be fixing those pronunciation mistakes by next time and she’ll be using those words too. Momo has improved her vocabulary a lot!!! But she’s not as careful with her pronunciation.. as most foreigners. Like you said, it’s harder to have a native- like accent when you learn a language at an older age and both Sana and Momo started to learn Korean at 16. (Mina at 17 I think? And tzuyu 13)

[@chyngyzsupuev]

I feel like most of the people would think that it's enough when they get to the high proficiency level ,but the fact that Sana tries to improve her Korean even more says a lot about her 😊

[@arry9640]

Sana also know how to speak in accent

[@sjeoendiowksbsjsel]

I love Sana's cheese Kimbap😁sana

[@jacksonwangspapillong4217]

Hhhhhhhhhhjjojojojojo🙏🏻jo🙏🏻jo🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 ijjooknooo oo o k koo

[@kougamishinya6566]

Possibly also the fact that they had to practice speaking as soon as they got to Korea, and speaking too much early on reinforces some bad habits which could be avoided if there is a "silent period" of just gaining understanding and hearing the diff between all the sounds for example the double consonants. If you can't fully hear the difference it is very difficult to produce it yourself.

[@am.ivanova]

Sana is actually often (affectionately) called "native Korean Sana" in variety shows and such cause she speaks very confidently and seems to know words & expressions (and thinks of them on the spot) that even the Korean Twice members don't think of.

[@lunarkayla3177]

When you said that something Momo does well is that she's good at naturally using idioms, it reminded me of that one knowing bros episode where she says "Momo got dumped for another woman" and Heechul is like "??? Where did you learn that expression" haha This video is so cool!!

[@faustinuskaryadi6610]

Technically you can do word to word translation from Japanese to Korean, and sometimes it work also for idioms.

[@thechannelitrollwith1645]

Sana's just a great speaker in general. She has that natural quick, fluid speech no matter the language and if you hear her speak in the Nizi Project finale she sounds like an actual professional Japanese MC/anchor. I looked up from my game I was playing to see if they hired some Japanese entertainer to MC the show but it was just her lol. So it's pretty great seeing her thrive in Korean. It's only going to continue to get better as her vocabulary and fluency catch up to her speaking ability. EDIT: idk if you cover it but before I forget, you're pulling clips from all over the last 5 years or so. I'm sure there's some obvious improvements in vocabulary and overall fluency in that time, so just keep that in mind in future analyses if you don't touch on it at some point.

[@jezz6002]

Sana speaks korean so well that koreans call her Kim Sana, since she sounds like a native speaker

[@PokeTwilight]

Kim Sana is also a nickname she gave herself too and she deserves it! 😆😆

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@PokeTwilight 金 사나

[@lunarlino]

Kim ✨Sana✨

[@amin5879]

Her Korean is very good, but in my opinion she is not enough to be called a native speaker

[@sabrinag9610]

@@amin5879 I'm curious to know as to why you think that :) I am not learning Korean, but Italian, but even I like watching these videos just for the curiosity (even inspiration). I've always heard Sana is the better speaker of Twice, and presumably other K-pop foreign idols. Other Koreans or non-Koreans who are fans could say the same, but I wouldn't really be one to know all of the nuances of course. At least from a surface level, Sana is a better speaker than the others (Mina, Momo and Tzuyu). All ears.

[@37enzo]

we damn near probably turned him into a once

[@GoBillyKorean]

Close!

[@nikcam76cn]

he said

[@nikcam76cn]

@@GoBillyKorean 치즈

[@nikcam76cn]

No 머리

[@azertytores]

I think (G) I-dle foreigners line could actually be really interesting to analyze, I mean they're young, Minnie is Thai, Yuqi is from mainland China and Suhua is Taiwanese, so it's quite diverse in addition, the mistakes and cute particularities should sound really differently from one member to the other ^^ Edit: Thanks for all the likes, I really hope he will take this request in consideration ^^'

[@바보Queen]

i hope he finds more recent clips of shuhua compared to back then.. it would be interesting.. i think minnie is probably the best

[@alesaliz]

I really want to see this! yuqi is known for speaking korean very well, so I'd like to see what mistakes can be found in her korean

[@바보Queen]

@@alesaliz yuqi seems to have the best pronunciation but minnie destroys her in almost every korean word game

[@kimmyseon46]

Shuhua has a pretty noticeable accent even when singing

[@바보Queen]

@@kimmyseon46 i don't speak korean so i can't tell.. so it be awesome if he analyzed it

[@ThatsPrettySchmitty]

I love seeing the non-native Korean celebrities speaking Korean. They make so many cute mistakes or phrases and it makes me appreciate my own special way of speaking Korean as well! The foreign boys in NCT are pretty fun if you're looking for it!

[@engi8011]

I agree with the video about the NCT foreign boys, especially Yuta, Mark and Johnny!

[@emixox8404]

cute mistakes? um.

[@ThatsPrettySchmitty]

@@emixox8404 Yep! I think there are some pretty cute mistakes that anyone learning another language makes :)

[@janly2441]

"sana says it as 'eondeoni' which is really cute" i mean that girl is the epitome of cuteness

[@doublemoon7720]

The way that Billy has fallen for Sana's cuteness and Momo's adorable pronunciation 😌 Can't wait for the Mina and Tzuyu analysis video!

[@cherylschaeffer7832]

You should definitely do more of these videos. They are very enjoyable and educational. Hopefully it will help all of us to avoid the same mistakes. And you seem to be enjoying doing these videos, so even more reason for you to do more.

[@chocolatebanana8375]

👍

[@luquinhas7898]

I really want to see a his reaction to Tzuyu`s korean, and her saying 지겨웠어요(I was bored) instead of 즐거웠어요(I enjoyed) ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@natalia-pz4cb]

4:50 billy having a life crisis in the middle of the video hahah but really though, these videos are fun !! and they're actually rather beneficial, it makes me tune into my pronunciation more :) i'm excited to see you critique some idols that are native english speakers so i can tune into problems that i, as an english speaker, have when i speak korean !!

[@rosieisbored]

I really admire momo & sana for learning Korean through speaking, it’s something that is really hard for me so I really depend on learning the writing and reading when I first learn a new language

[@Nifuruc]

Of course you have to do Mina and Tzuyu now ^^ Btw... There is an "ng" sound in Japanese - in fact there is only "ng" sounds at the end of words that don't end with a vowel because the only consonant that can be used without a vowel is the ん n which is pronounced ng (just like the korean 응)... So 鞄 kaban is pronounced kabang just like the korean 가방 ^^

[@brettfafata3017]

If anyone is interested in the phonetics behind this, the Japanese final "n" sound is the uvular nasal [ɴ]. This sound sound not exist in Korean and is subsisted by the similar sounding velar nasal [ŋ].

[@Nifuruc]

@@brettfafata3017 I'm a linguist so I know ^^ I didn't want to make it sound more complicated than it is but you're absolutely right!

[@brettfafata3017]

@@Nifuruc I didn't doubt you I just love to use IPA any chance I get lol

[@Nifuruc]

@@brettfafata3017 I know that feeling XD

[@미아모레사나]

@@Nifuruc That depends on where the “ん” is. Sometimes it depends on the speaker too. For example, 看板 is pronounced as _kanban_ , _kamban_ , or _kambang_ . You wouldn’t hear any Japanese pronounce it as _kangbang_ though 🙂

[@rheaballani]

honestly billy, your books and videos have helped me so much (especially with pronunciation) that I would argue that you are a perfect Korean speaker! thank you!

[@mantin9844]

Fun fact : today's Sana's birthday, happy birthday to sana!

[@gray2865]

Please do Tzuyu! She has a lot of cute pronunciation mistakes too 😆

[@shutdahellup69420]

Yaaaaaaas

[@shutdahellup69420]

@@SoRa-re1yd lol

[@user-uc7ui8lx9f]

It was very boring 😂

[@user-uc7ui8lx9f]

@Tory Sprout i misquoted but skip to 35:43 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaO2lqyja6tlkLM

[@danimanabat5791]

@@user-uc7ui8lx9f LMAOOOO THAT TZUYU SCENE WAS VERY FUNNY TBH

[@hotlagirl]

I actually love watching Jessi get better at Korean as she does more reality shows(even though she has been living there a long time). Maybe you could show us as English speakers how to fix or get better at speaking Korean like Jessi does. By speaking and making mistakes.

[@micco35]

True! But it is worth noting that Jessi has been in Korea for 17 years now, still would be very interesting

[@KatimaMulilo]

Yeah, Jessi, Amber, or Eric Nam would all be good grading subjects.

[@santokki50609]

Yea, Some pure blooded korean who was born or lived abroad and came back to Korea without any fluency really struggles.

[@MingukFilms]

YES! She reads Korean perfectly too! There are some "end of the year" shows in which she hosts... search for "Sana hosting gayo" or something, these shows have "Gayo" in the name, and she's reading those things they read when presenting shows and she's perfect at that.

[@DizzehxxMitizzeh42]

From my understanding, Japanese does technically have "consonant doubling," at least insofar as how it's expressed in Romaji, but I think their "double" consonants (which are denoted by the use of before the consonant being emphasized in Hiragana and in Katakana) are still "softer" than Korean ones, and it really affects length more than intensity.

[@findahyun]

analyzing (g)idle foreign members would be a really interesting video!!! there are three and i think they’re all at slightly different levels

[@샨리위노나]

Imagine watching Sana for analyzing her pronunciations but fell in love instead😂

[@sarahf.9347]

I remember once seeing a tumblr post a long time ago of a korean explaining the way bts members spoke. like how each member chooses their words, their tone and organized their sentences in a way that was telling about their age, their intellect and just how it matched to their personality in general. I'd love to see you do a video like this, where you could grab their (or other idols) casual videos and tell us what type of feeling it transmits to fluent/ative speakers. I hope this makes some sense 😅😅

[@Meegoreng100]

He probably needs to be native or young(to know lingo) at least to do that.. its like when people talk using Twitter terms or not. Simple

[@fireflieer2422]

Ohh that's so interesting! Kinda wish I could read that post now

[@niharasheed]

Woah I kinda wanna see that post now

[@jowjaaa4963]

anyone have a link? i tried looking and the closest i got was a few decent quora posts

[@internationalseagull7216]

Does anyone have link?

[@jcravenclaw]

Do Tzuyu and Mina too plsss.

[@user-uc7ui8lx9f]

You should see momo trying to count the syllables in 트둥이 😂

[@awesomeeqme]

Lmao “EHH?!”

[@user-uc7ui8lx9f]

@@awesomeeqme "트 두 응 이 ehhh!?" 😂

[@AngxHoff]

XD

[@imperialchaos8143]

This is so fun as a kpop fan, but also quite enlightening! Even though I’m nowhere near the girls’ level of Korean, this pronunciation analysis really helped me correct some mistakes I had no idea I was making

[@erikudeji9124]

"Cheer up baby! Cheer up baby!" Epic

[@xapaoff]

Momo & Sana really try their best, i honestly thought that for native Japanese speakers Korean was easier than for Americans or Europeans but it isn’t, im really trying to learn it (Im Belgian) but its kind of hard so i really admire other people who aren’t native Korean speakers when they talk korean and they really motivate me to learn to speak, wirte and read it. Sana and Momo are a big example for me and i really enjoyed you reacting to their speaking. :)

[@jcravenclaw]

In Portuguese we have accents to change syllable pronunciation: "오" is ô and "어" is ó

[@njitram2000]

In Dutch is the same letter o but it depends on whether it is followed by 1 or 2 consonants (or is at the end of a word). If you know the basics of a few European languages, you can map all the Korean sounds. For me that's Dutch, French and English/American (for the distinction between 애 and 에)

[@insertnamehere4833]

In Turkish the 으 sound exists, also the Korean and Turkish grammar are very similar

[@njitram2000]

@@insertnamehere4833 Good point. There is no sound in the Western European languages that corresponds with 으. There are a few that come close but the flat line represents the shape of the mouth and it took me a long time to figure out how to do that properly :D

[@ichliebebaeumeweilbaum]

To me the German Ü is similar to 으, Ä to 애 (And E is 에) Not 100% but kinda similar

[@gabrielmoreirabr]

Are you Brazilian or Portuguese? Just curious

[@ShallowSleeper0129]

thank you for the videos Billy! As a student sometimes learning the language seems impossible and that everyone just "got it" but me, but seeing you point out mistakes albeit very small that non native celebrities make and improve makes me feel better with learning, everyone makes mistakes! We're all forever learning and improving 감사합니다! ♥

[@nayeonintern3481]

Thanks for this, it's very interesting 👍 That's why Sana's nickname is Kim Sana😄 and even Twice's korean members are envious of her penmanship😂 I wish you reacted to some recent Momo vids too (like you did for Sana's vids) because I think her korean got a bit better over the last 3-4 yrs.

[@Mizhelle]

Makes sense why a native Japanese speaker would make the mistake 치〜즈. The Japanese equivalent is チーズ (chiizu), which has a long vowel. As a Japanese speaker with hardly any Korean skills, I find Sana and Momo amazing! A lot of the words are similar but I find Korean pronunciation so difficult!

[@rebeccaerazo825]

I’m not sure how I ended up here but I’m glad I did. “No Sana, no life”

[@bridget4212]

Firstly, love the pics in the background. Secondly, I hope to be so good at Korean one day that people have to nitpick to find errors. Maybe a few decades from now...

[@supechube_k]

the amount of fanboying here is amazing😍 i sense a new once coming along

[@wellhereiam179]

very happy with how respectful you were, especially since you aren’t a native Korean speaker. I would love to see a video like this on Stray Kid’s Felix and NCT’s Lucas

[@supechube_k]

i really want you to do a vid where your viewers submit their korean videos and you review them

[@minjuun2476]

Momo saying "my brain isn't working" is a whole ass mood

[@caramelissa3711]

It's time to bring this back 😌 JYPE's girl group NiziU just debuted in Korea, and they are all Japanese. It would be fun to see you analyze their Korean (they've been learning for 3 years)

[@ariadnagomez8761]

thank you so much for the video!!! Sana is by far the best at korean of the four of them, but they all have improved a lot. please do mina and tzuyu next!!!

[@sonya5395]

the nitpicking is kinda helpful for me learning though hahahaha, don't feel too bad. the not understanding the korean until after sana has read something is so interesting omg

[@LeilaleilaZ]

Wait, Sana isn't Korean? I could've sworn she was (don't rly know that much about Twice, sorry) But she seems super confident in her korean!

[@spy6205]

Sana, Momo and Mina are all Japanese. Tzuyu is Taiwanese. All the other members of Twice are native Koreans. Hope that helps! :)

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@spy6205 ないす

[@Xxiroo]

Yall when he said “I wish momo was my korean teacher even though I would learn much” is cause he is fluent already. She probably can’t teach him any words he doesn’t know XD

[@GoBillyKorean]

I meant that I'd probably just be distracted by her cuteness and not learn Korean :P

[@Xxiroo]

Learn Korean with GO! Billy Korean That works too😂😂

[@KatimaMulilo]

Some of the most hilarious Twice content is Momo cracking either Nayeon, Jihyo, or Dahyun up with her misunderstanding of Korean.

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@KatimaMulilo 카ち마 ムリ로

[@nataleeflores3487]

Using TWICE as a gateway to learning anything is praiseworthy. Also, I am the language nerd/Twice stan who googled for a video like this. Your trilingual insights are a full on flex tbh. Respect!

[@seanfogerty6075]

no one escapes sana without developing a crush on her. i'm gay but i would drop everything for her lmao

[@MikeTheDopeToast]

Here are my suggestions: Mina and Tzuyu for sure, and I would like you to grade Stray Kids Bang Chan and Felix.

[@nguyengirl7684]

in some past clips sana has said she was motivated to learn korean fast because she's quite sociable and didn't like feeling left out/alone when she couldn't understand the other trainees. So it's probably true that she mainly learned through speaking and listening, rather than reading or doing textbook worksheets. She also recommended fans to learn through watching variety shows so i bet she probably learned through that too

[@olasega2207]

Lmao sana is more confident speaking Korean then me speaking English, like you tell me to explain my essay to my teacher I get my words mixed up and I never say anything I want😤😭

[@withniara5151]

Thanks for making this 👀. Its nice to see someone analyze foreigner speaking or reading in korea. So i can lear the difference, between among people

[@alliahrose2878]

Momo is really cute without knowing it. Sana is really impressive.

[@JoJonesMUA]

Ahhh!! So excited you’ve continued this series!

[@bambuu_]

Sana's sound pretty natural compared to most foreign idols, you can tell she worked really hard on it. Yuqi and Minnie from G-Idle are also pretty good!

[@msmornig]

thank you for this!! i've always been interested in the korean of foreign idols because although they are very familiar with the language and sound so, there must be some differences! this is so interesting ahhh

[@roseisagee]

omg this is the first video i have watched out of this series of you grading idols and their korean and this was so cute and informational at the same time. i love twice lol and this made me smile. can’t wait to see more!!!

[@katiekawaii]

Always been so jealous of Sana's Korean skills 😭 Girl is smart and clearly works her ass off. Props.

[@botakd6612]

Thanks Billy! These clips actually help a lot to learn Korean, especially with pronunciation of certain letters. Look forward to more videos!

[@Jjangbunbun]

SANAAAAA💖 cutest kween

[@marija5831]

I love watching these videos! It helps me a lot with my pronunciation and I learn new words. Thank you Billy 🤗 It would be fun to see a video about Jackson (Got7) and Lay (Exo) sometime in the future if/when you have time 😁 Sending love from Serbia ❤

[@artisticanimedreamerchohui1029]

Omg Jacksons would be so hilarious lol nd i frickin love Lay

[@marija5831]

@@artisticanimedreamerchohui1029 I know, right? 😆 Love them both to pieces

[@jcravenclaw]

Sana is a sweet princess and the world doesn't deserve her. Momo is a fierce and strong woman and the world doesn't deserve her. Thanks for this

[@Kfri4486]

This is really cool! I even ended up catching some new words. It’d be interesting to have, as a special episode, a review of your Korean, Billy, by a native Korean teacher. Thanks for your teachings. Keep it up!

[@Staciabailey14]

TWICE's foreign line gives me so much hope as Korean learner. They often explain their learning styles on vlive and encourage new learners to keep going. Each member has a unique way of speaking so it's easy to tell who is who even through vlive chat.

[@user-gv5xq5lb9t]

stray kids' australian line please!!!

[@MrCommentor2]

don't they have korean parents? i'd suspect they grew up with the language anyway. i'm not a big stay so idk but i'm just guessing

[@user-gv5xq5lb9t]

@@MrCommentor2 they do but since they're bilingual i'd like to see how billy rates their korean! especially with felix, he started learning it around the age sana + momo did too without knowing the language before!

[@MrCommentor2]

@@user-gv5xq5lb9t oh okay, i see what you mean. could be interesting then.

[@itzcyxratv5364]

@@MrCommentor2 Chan grew up with it. Felix didn’t he had to learn when he moved to korea

[@artisticanimedreamerchohui1029]

Everyone saying do Tzuyu and Mina too. Yaw clearly didnt watch the video yet💀

[@samlee6152]

If there is one thing I'd critique about Sana's Korean, it's that she tends to speak in a way that makes her words a little slurred-sounding, rather than clear and distinct. But this is the case only some of the time. All in all, she's probably the best Korean speaker out of all foreign idols. Yuqi might be a close second.

[@frognr2]

These videos are so fun!! Itd be also super interesting tomaybe venture into boygroups. Especially NCT/WAYV, since theyre so diverse and sometimes mix multiple languages together. Some of them also havent been long in korea at all!! For example the new member shotaro, or their chinese unit WAYV, that would be so cool to see!

[@jiroooo748]

Sana's nickname isn't Kim Sana for no reason 😂 Hi Billy, thank you for doing a video about Sana, she inspired me to learn Korean. I hope I can be half as good as her. 😭❤️

[@knittingfrenzy18]

I'd recommend Renjun from NCT! As a Chinese member of the youngest subunit, he started learning Korean pretty young so he usually hears a lot of compliments that he speaks really well. I wonder what you would think! For most foreign idols that I personally follow, I can usually hear a small difference in accent but Renjun sounds pretty good.

[@nightingale4786]

oh i really loved this! twice's foreign line is very cute! would also love a video on gidle's foreign line as well bc two of the members are considered to be good enough to be native except for missing a few words/some accents while the other one is still learning and makes cute mistakes

[@nuesita]

nct Japanese/Chinese line next pls 🥺 also, yuta is also Japanese and has a very nice handwriting ^^ how about him and Kun next?

[@kumatea356]

yes i would love to see that ✋

[@miriamlevenson9430]

sana honestly has the best second language speaking skills of anyone i’ve ever seen

[@kpop-tdoong6978]

Sana is not a MC for no reason and Sana have flavors in all of her word she even show her feeling in each word she say

[@linds7788]

I really love these celebrity grading videos! Thanks for this!

[@jasminotoco4746]

When you speak english, is so clear, that me learning english, can understand all words

[@gwiyomikim5988]

I’m a native English speaker and I think the same as you. His English speaking voice and pronunciation are very clear and precise. I think the same can be said for his Korean as well. Good luck🤗

[@jasminotoco4746]

@@gwiyomikim5988 thank youu

[@PokeTwilight]

I’m not surprised Sana speaks Korean really well. You can see how she worked really hard. When TWICE first debuted, she still tried her best to speak in Korean even though her Korean skills wasn’t as good as it is now. Because of how opened she was to making mistakes, her Korean skills really improved a lot. And also, Sana is a really good active learner. She can easily pick up phrases when she listens to others communicating. E.g When Tzuyu communicates with her parents, she was able to pick up a few mandarin phrases just from hearing Tzuyu speak. And from a native Mandarin speaker perspective, she got her tone right, which is really difficult even for a Japanese or a Korean to get the tone right.

[@vita123abc]

Hi Billy, after you do the Tzuyu and Mina video, I think you should do Dita and Léa, the Indonesian and Japanese members of new Rookie Of The Year girl group Secret Number. They're both interesting cases because Dita is the very first Indonesian kpop girl group idol and Léa even though she's just debuted, is actually has been around the industry even longer than most Twice members. Dita's Korean has been improving by leaps and bounds lately and Léa's Korean has always been commented as really fluent by other people. I think a critique video for both of them would be really interesting. Thanks 🙏🏼

[@boringajeossi2465]

Lea's Korean is better than Denise Korean (who is Americ-Korea), and she's learning just from drama (high kick).

[@ThiagoAlmeida-O-Jovem]

I see signs that Billy is becoming a Once (Twice fandom name)😂😂😂 Also, for someone that is struggling with hangul, i found this video encouraging. Seeing how Sana became so good and Momo improved over the years is good to a begginer being confident.

[@giuarima]

Can you do a series on NCT's foreign members? There are so many of them LOL. Yuta, Kun, Ten, Winwin, Lucas, Xiaojun, Hendery, Renjun, Yangyang, Shotaro and Chenle.

[@Riaaonline]

Every time I speak Korean it’s like my voice and personality changes Idk why 😅

[@spacemono5419]

Its so interesting how people’s personalities change based on their language they are speaking, ive seen that happen to a lot of people I wonder why. Maybe its the levee of comfort you have in the language or how you see native speakers speak it or think of the language that affects it! So cool!

[@MsFated]

You watching too many dramas or vlives and trying to emulate that

[@Riaaonline]

@@MsFated I don’t really watch neither 💀

[@moonlightbae2879]

@@MsFated nah, that's normal. i don't speak korean, but i speak english and i feel like a whole different person when i speak it.

[@MC-ko2mx]

It's code switching in action. I feel like a different person when I speak different languages.

[@juju002]

This was so fun to watch! Please do more rating videos about Twice's members pronunciation in the future too

[@wnss8465]

This channel makes learning korean such an interesting thing

[@draculona4477]

10:56 You should teach us how to write like in a good handwriting in korean!

[@vxnilla3466]

Please do Jun, The8, and Joshua from the group called SEVENTEEN. Jun and The8 are the Chinese members while Joshua is a pure Korean but who lives and born in LA who doesn’t know korean at all before joining the company. They only learned speaking korean while they’re still in their trainee years, and even though it’s been years i still find some cute mistakes and pronunciation from them. I’m not saying it’s bad though i just would like to see how Teacher Billy analyze their pronunciation, grammars, etc. stuffs ^^

[@miyuyamaguchi3464]

enjoyed your video and watching 懐かしい clips of sana and momo! I think especially momo has improved a lot since then!

[@zhenday]

Thank you a lot! You helped me to understand the difference between double consonants and strong consonants!

[@constanteeiasf9809]

한국어 능력 평가는 이 분이 보통 한국인들보다 잘하실듯 ㅋㅋ 한국어와 영어를 배울 수 있는 좋은 채널이네요.

[@Mickie1198]

As an esl teacher, reading and writing are the most complex things to teach in most languages. When you immerse yourself in another language it becomes easier to understand and speak the language daily because it becomes your life. But reading and writing is much more difficult!!

[@TheMinhyoShin]

Billy, you should analyze NCT they have A LOT of foreign members

[@jenniet6323]

all the nct vs korean language vids lmao

[@im-rookie5830]

Grade G-idle shuhua's korean speaking please. she has a compilation in youtube struggling speaking in korean. she always pronounce yeoreobun as yeobbun.

[@dontplaywitharmyitsdangero3981]

I find Sana impressive but all of them are so cool, I've learned four languages others than mine easily but I find korean pronunciation hard that it makes me give up easily so I learn to understand more but not for talking

[@larahgeanne]

I hope you review got7 next! Their rapline are all foreigner (Thai, American, Chinese) it would be very interesting to watch

[@njitram2000]

I have been learning Korean completely by myself with no one to talk to so I spent a long time making sure I have the pronunciation correct. This nitpicking has confirmed that I did it right, thanks :D

[@NSXPCConnection]

Intro: 0:00 Sana: 1:22 Momo: 11:00

[@irisk6035]

This series is so much fun I hope you keep doing it!!! I would love to see you analyze NCT

[@sean7891233]

Thank you Billy for the excellent and informative video. Thanks to your expert sharing, I have now decided to give up studying Korean 😂😂😂

[@findahyun]

i just found this channel from the other video but these have actually been really interesting i like these videos!

[@bee-jb7rl]

the word 단위 is super interesting because in japanese, the word for "unit" is "単位（たんい）(tanni)" pronounced similarly to the korean word!! a lot of japanese and korean words have the same/similar pronounciations so it's really interesting and it helps me learn new vocabulary easier as a native japanese speaker haha you should look into felix from stray kids too! he's also from jype, he's a bit newer to korean but he is korean australian. (started learning in 2017 i think?) maybe bang chan too, also from stray kids and is an aussie! (he came to korea in 2010 but i'm pretty sure he spoke korean at home in aus)

[@KirkKiyosadaTome]

As always, love these vids, Billy! As someone who learned Japanese as a child and is only recently learning Korean, I'm glad that you pointed out the specific differences between the languages. I'm also hoping that you'll someday pick Japanese up again, as you'll find that it's grammatically nearly 1:1 to Korean. In fact, once I realized how similar they were, I started mentally translating from Japanese rather than English, which I believe is speeding my path along to thinking natively in Korean without having to translate it first. Thanks, Billy! 고마워요!

[@GoBillyKorean]

I used to do that when I was first learning Korean - I'd sometimes think of things in Korean in terms of Japanese. However, this method doesn't work as perfectly as you might think. I actually made a video about that topic here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zpzbkot3a7OahK8

[@KirkKiyosadaTome]

@@GoBillyKorean Really insightful reasoning on your linked vid. Thanks for the response!

[@bee-jb7rl]

@@KirkKiyosadaTome i'm learning korean right now as a japanese and english speaker, and i started doing that too!! it's so much easier sometimes! (sorry for jumping into the convo...)

[@KirkKiyosadaTome]

@@bee-jb7rl Appreciate the confirmation! It clicked on like a lightbulb for me; I'm glad others have experienced this, too 😄

[@Juritakahashifan]

Wow this is really interesting. They have learned the language well 😊. It could be interesting to see you look into Rocket Punch's Takahashi Juri. She is Japanese too and has been learning Korean from 2018, so it hasn't been that long. She also started the language learning in her adulthood 🤔.