Korean Girls React To 'ESL Memes' That Americans Never Understand

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[@elstagersaurus]

Don't lie, the first words you learn in other languages are "hello how are you" and cuss words

[@astro_girl6]

me with spanish-

[@itsjiminsnonexistentjams1221]

No I just learn “I can’t speak (whatever) thank you” 💀

[@keketeteanddede8781]

i did it for the cuss words

[@gkaze77]

Counter Strike: Global Offensive players "CYKA BLYAT!"

[@lamedrawing2251]

Maybe not- I’m learning French and I do not know the cuss words yet...

[@creamypuffs4265]

"I have no idea what they are saying, But I like it." when I'm listening to Kpop.

[@PongoXBongo]

I said the same thing out loud when that meme came up. 🤣

[@kwalli7]

the way they feel about english is how i feel about korean lol. i like how it sounds but i dont understand

[@jebedia4625]

@@빈젠조 ANA DUL SET

[@TheMasterFro]

"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."

[@jaigee6678]

😂😂😂😂 ...but it DOES have a strong basis in Latin. That's how I learned to understand English... couldn't speak it when I got here, but now...? You can't shut me up! **snicker**

[@nekrataali]

@@jaigee6678 Only half the language has a strong basis in Latin. The other half is actually two more halves, comprised of Proto-Germanic and random things taken from half-Swahili, half-Swiss, and half-Spanish.

[@tk72231968]

MJ, Chacha, Minji, and Heejin should all be proud of their English...they understand and speak a lot more English than I can Korean 👍👌

[@DavidCruickshank]

Them absolutely cackling to ESL memes was incredible. trust us we don't get silent letters either.

[@thelittleprince2058]

Silent letters: exist French: HeLlO, YoU KnoW WHaT It iS

[@AK-jj1qj]

c'est fou, totalement ici

[@e.k5855]

anNyEonGhAsEYooOo

[@esophagus3319]

i had a very hard time learning french. i can write it but never speak it. eventually i gave up xd

[@jackieorange7115]

No one understands the English language less than English speaking people trust me 😂

[@kellinquinnsrealsister]

So sad yet so true

[@charliesangel6745]

Honestly

[@toastysock]

Some people are so fucking lazy. (I'm looking at North America)

[@shelovesjihope5697]

@@toastysock well

[@canijustavoidfanwarspeacefully]

@@toastysock i mean

[@michaelmachupa3854]

English is confusing because it's a hybrid language. For example words like knight, knife and knock are of Dutch origin. In their language I think the pronounce the k sound.

[@phoenixlich]

that's what makes Etymology so interesting for English! So many words borrowed and adapted from other languages. The most Korean I use is when talking about my wife's car. She drives a Hyundai.

[@ladievengeance1577]

Yup and then words like restaurant, etiquette, detour, and a whole bunch of other words are French. I think because France at on point was occupying England and forced their vocabulary on them

[@davidfrischknecht8261]

Also, quite often the pronunciation of words changed but the spelling stayed the same. That's why there are so many silent letters in English words.

[@ItsNessaTho]

Dutch person here! Knight=ridder (but does sound like 'knecht' where we do pronounce the k) knife=mes and knock=kloppen. I don't know if these words are of Dutch origin tbh.

[@Courtneygleach]

Truee

[@the1Blade20]

Sale sail sell cell. A lot of people don’t know the difference between two to too surprisingly. English is wild.

[@Logovanni]

Yeah but Korean has 27 different definitions for the verb “먹다”. They’re all spelled and sound the same.

[@idrawanime0119]

them pronouncing every letter in ‘Knight’ is hilarious 💀💀 it *does* sound like German-

[@PongoXBongo]

Good old Saxon influence.

[@borjesvensson8661]

Is it not the german word knecht?

[@Camile1283]

@@borjesvensson8661 It used to be knighte/knyghte/knyght (spelling depended on time period, region, & source). Definitely came from Old English which sounds somewhat like Old German or Old Norse. Was pronounced like "Ke-nic-ec." Like a good chunk of English, spelling was standardized before the pronunciation was.

[@shalow2]

@@Camile1283 We still use "knægt" (young buy), which could also be something akin to "knejde" in archaic Danish and was an (often) young man that was hired as a farmhand if I remember correctly. Landsknægt is a type of mercenary soldier (Landsknecht german) which is likely where it came into military use. The vikingers too a bunch of "kn" words with them when they invaded England, Knife (Kniv), Knight (Knægt, Knot (Knude), Knuckle (Knokle), Knee (Knæ) are a few of the ones I remember

[@Camile1283]

@@shalow2 Yes! I really wish the US taught history of English language along with grammar and such. Would help a lot of people understand why English is the puzzle that it is to many people.

[@jordyn9407]

not gonna lie learning bad words in dif launguages are easy

[@sheepinwolfclothes3262]

👁️👄👁️

[@mireya5085]

The first step to learning a language:

[@joooooolea]

when i learn languages theyre the first thing i learn 👍

[@jordyn9407]

@@joooooolea fr like pabo i learned that

[@jordyn9407]

@@mireya5085 lmao

[@stuart5178]

Dear God, teaching ESL in Daejeon for 6 years I banned students from saying "I'm fine thank you, and you?"

[@damiendiem]

my 50 year old mom says it, so it must've been taught for 30+ years lol

[@txtthingz9670]

Lol, i even hear MANY idols using it. An example that immediately comes to my hed is Beomgyu from TxT. I think that's the basic thing they learn first lmao 💀

[@adeleennis2255]

I fixed that with my third graders in China. Fine was not allowed. They could be hungry, angry, sleepy, tired, great, or even so-so, but not fine. Then I would ask them why they were feeling that way.

[@nickiminaj0882]

What's wrong with saying that?

[@tink6225]

@@nickiminaj0882 i think it gets annoying lol

[@dajuanyaburton7442]

When she said “Give me some WATA” I lost it

[@audreyolesha2556]

She gaved me Nigerian vibe on this one not gonna lie 😂😂😂

[@user-sl4tw4ol5h]

@@audreyolesha2556 cucumba

[@clexaline5730]

"So many silent letters !" French: -_-

[@Alex-dh2cx]

Where do you think English got it from, it mostly ok until the Normans invaded. Now we have spelling rules to account for words from three different languages.

[@afterblue6597]

"I'm just a human living nowhere" lol that's brilliant

[@Sylaise]

Them: The British and Australian accents are hard to understand! Deep Scottish and Irish English Accents: Heh :)

[@madeinjamaica7025]

And West Indians dont forget us!

[@helloworld738]

Yes my french teacher made us watch videos and try to write down everything they were saying.

[@adeleennis2255]

@@helloworld738 I loved dictation. I was best at that. I once misunderstood a homework assignment in my level 4 French class. I thought the teacher told us to translate a Christmas movie, so I translated every bit of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”. However, she actually told us to summarize it. I still got credit for it since I had done a lot more work than was necessary. Level 4 French was an elective class as our state test was at the end of Level 3 French, so verb conjugation drills and massive vocabulary dumps were no longer a thing. Level 4 was about comprehension and usage, but in interesting ways.

[@Alex-dh2cx]

Southern US in places isn't much better. Lived my whole life here, had an AC guy come out a month ago and I might've understood a third of what he tried to say to me. The lawn guy from Mexico who couldn't speak any English was easier to communicate with.

[@brandonlevy8680]

Watching Heejin say "Knight" had me rolling on the floor laughing. That was hilarious.

[@GavinFox2028]

The girls are back 😂😂

[@krazycoco123]

"Im almost writing a paper in my head" had me cackling 🤣🤣 native speaker here and I still forget how to speak English hahaha

[@empresscrafts689]

"how to English" lol 😂 *I think you're missing a verb there dear* But honestly same, plus common English is even worse that proper English because most of the letters and vowel sounds are disregarded. I still get mad about fountain, mountain and plantain.

[@krazycoco123]

@@empresscrafts689 I always use the phrase "I forget how to English" oops hahaha i should have stated that 🤣 basically I stumble over my words when speaking (most/all of the time hahaha 🤣)

[@empresscrafts689]

@@krazycoco123 I get you fr, sometimes I hate speaking and wish that selective telepathy was a thing already😂

[@MK-hu7zk]

@@empresscrafts689 I’d rather speak than write tho 😭 I spell so badly I can’t even google it

[@empresscrafts689]

@@MK-hu7zk oof not the autocorrect being useless 😭

[@grampamirlin]

I hooe you keep these 4 girls for a long time. I know OSSC has had others, but these 4 girls are internet famous now.. Please keep them.

[@bts_lover8909]

Now I understand how koreans feel when they talk to us Americans🤦🏽‍♀️ I should have known.

[@Courtneygleach]

Fr

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

I'm an American who is currently tutoring someone from China, and I didn't realize that English had 3 "U" sounds (i.e. luck, look, and Luke), two "th" sounds ("eth": ð, and "thorn": Þ) and 2 "L" sounds (dark L and light L). I always memorized these sounds, but never really labeled them before. Also, I learned that in American English, there are a ton of _glottal stops_ (the sound made to replace the "T" in the word "mountain" and "don't"), _flap Ts_ (the "D" sound that replaces the "T" sounds in the words "turtle" and "bottle"), and full-on _omissions of the "T" sound_ in words like "twenty". I take these words for granted because the language is my native tongue, so I'm used to many of the nuances. Sorry to ESL students! English is a very difficult language because it's a hodge-podge of so many other languages, like French and Greek, and those languages have different pronunciation and spelling rules.

[@ace-of-teacups]

I only started learning phonetics and phonology when I became a teacher trainee :( A lot of people don't realize how strange the English language is until they have to teach someone...

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

@@ace-of-teacups Exactly! I took on this tutoring gig thinking it would be easy...but it's so much work on my part 😂

[@7iscoe]

english has 26 vowels sounds thats why

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

@@7iscoe Not just phonemes, but very nuanced consonant sounds too.

[@7iscoe]

@@Kingdom_Of_Dreams also phrasal verbs, and every english preposition

[@sayonda7920]

I'm learning Korean. I think everyone believes that their mother tongue is easy. Korean makes no sense to me, but I will keep trying.

[@mikebutler7237]

lol typo - since- lol sense

[@winniethepooh8353]

@@mikebutler7237 bahaha

[@ranasiaclark8030]

Same

[@MK-hu7zk]

I thought learning my mother tounge’d be easy since I can understand for the most part, but nope I barely know any vocab, the writing system confusing. The only thing having prior knowledge helps is grammar and I can tell if it sounds off but it’s confusing

[@soyothedanny]

yeah only reading is easy. I haven't lived in Korea for a long time, and spacing makes no sense to me now.

[@AshNicRaw]

One thing that makes American English so difficult is accents or slang used in different area of the country.

[@outwest1014]

Used to go to rural Georgia once a year, took 3 days to get my ear tuned to the accent.

[@AshNicRaw]

@@outwest1014 ha ha ha! The southern accents give me trouble and i live in the south!🤣 I find myself shaking my head in agreement pretending i understood!😂

[@adeleennis2255]

My niece’s sperm donor was part Gullah. He was really hard to understand sometimes.

[@Alex-dh2cx]

@@outwest1014 I'm from the South, accents can get pretty hairy down here. I had an easier time muddling through a conversation with a landscaper who can only speak Spanish than I did speaking with my AC guy who was born and raised in the same county as me, technically the same city.

[@lauram1359]

When they started speaking with a British accent, I couldn’t stop laughing 💀

[@bellam3248]

their pronunciation is very good, especially mj and heejin, but i feel this exact way speaking spanish. all that tends to come out is “por favor, ahhh gracias” “bien, más o menos, no sé”

[@peewee139]

as a native english speaker, i get soo confused. it has rules but more exceptions?? why???lol

[@TheMasterFro]

English is the amalgamation of other languages. Grammar and vocabulary were borrowed and mostly stayed the same, but the pronunciation changed.

[@peewee139]

@@TheMasterFro makes sense, still confused as hell but at least there's an excuse lol

[@7iscoe]

@@TheMasterFro mainly french and latin, it’s 60% of its language and the english words are in french spelling

[@pamelaleannefreeland9025]

You all do very well! Most of us Americans only know English (and most not well). I know a little but if Spanish and am trying to learn a few words here and there in Korean. I love watching your videos! So glad I came across this channel! Such good people, you can tell! Love from Jackson, Ohio, USA. 💜💜💜💜💜

[@jaigee6678]

I had to study Latin in order to understand English sentence structure and the "breakdown" of actual words. It was a HUGE help. However, as much as I LOVE the sound of Korean language, there are also Korean characters that sound like other characters, which used to give me TOTAL brain-freeze, but I didn't give up. I still can't speak Korean well, and I know A LOT of "bad" words, 😇😂 but I'm not giving up bc I see progress.

[@mikebutler7237]

Totally relate to the knight spelling my GF from SK got stuck on juice one day which she pronounced as jewicchi is how she sounded out the word i did not connect this till she pointed out a sign she was reading when i figured it out and told her she broke into laughter . She was a treasure

[@GoddessDestinova]

I have only ever spoken English and I found this so funny. Silent letters used to trip me up in first grade and I knew that anyone learning English would be frustrated too.

[@Ok_Friend-il9of]

I was born and raised in America and sometimes I even have trouble speaking it

[@lilonels]

Replayed Minji's "Give me some water" and still laughing- 😝 Loving your accent, from a fellow Brit.

[@BloodofaFool]

I love that this is completely relatable in all languages

[@Charsept]

I'm just over here smiling during the entire video. So wholesome.

[@ariana165]

3:57 That killed me lmaooo. Woman on the right said it so perfectly the second time.

[@MVR91]

This was such a cute video. I love this channel and its content. Idk how you guys dont have a million subs. Love you guys!!!!

[@azucenamartinez2325]

ha! jokes on you, i had to learn english cause i only spoke spanish as a kid 😁

[@iheart.sarah_]

Same🥲

[@jordyn9407]

Im having to learn spanish because of my family from past generations since they are from mexici

[@XCrystiellaX]

Ah, this reminded me of when my friend who was from Vietnam back in high school asked me the difference between "this" and "that." I realized how they are sometimes use interchangeably and the rules aren't really set in stone.

[@gypsyrose3937]

Can they be any more adorable!!?? Love them!!

[@hazel9203]

3:58 not me thinking about Taehyung

[@suginami0]

I guess beach and bitch sound the same to them, but they are completely different vowel sounds to a native English speaker. They are not homonyms.

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

I call it the Asian "i". In English, the "i" will almost always be a soft "i" sound. In Asian countries, it's always going to be a hard "ee" sound. They have to completely retrain their brains when reading the "i" in English, and that takes a lot of effort for them 😂

[@raquelprovencio6108]

LMAO when she said bitch, it sounded so good. She really practicing with that word hahaha

[@alexisd4547]

The one about thinking vs speaking made me laugh because thats relatable for any language, like I can think of a perfect sentence and speak it perfectly in my head in another language but then I try to say it out loud and it sounds like im having a stroke. XD that is why practicing speaking it key.

[@mgpatry3274]

Great video!👍 This was fun to watch!

[@shashank-sama]

At 3:21, all the languages are : English Hindi Bengali (Bangla) Kannada Marathi Tamil Telugu Gujarati Fact - All of these languages are spoken in India. Infact, these are all official languages of India. In total, India has 23 official languages including English.

[@Leonelee-Cosmos]

Ke-Ni-Ge-H-T That’s gonna be stuck in my head for a very..long...time 🙂 Sounds like goodnight though😂

[@lizjoy6828]

I love that they laugh so much. 😊 It is a universal language!

[@maya-wy8ml]

what

[@StrangeGirl484]

English is so difficult, I still suck at spelling sometimes because of the silent letters, the rules, the exceptions to the rules, and English is my mother tongue. There is a video from I Love Lucy (an old American TV Show about Lucy and her husband Ricky -Cuban American) Where Ricky is reading a children's book and mispronounces words. It's a funny bit but demonstrates something that everyone (who is learning or has learned, or will learn) goes through.

[@souda925]

They sound very nice when they speak English! I would love to meet them one day!

[@albaperez6210]

You can communicate! Don't think you can't or you won't be able to. All you really need is to practice speaking it. You know a lot. You just don't realize how much until you use it.

[@ajahneely3876]

If you’re trying to learn Korean, I recommend watching a lot of variety shows. weekly idol and Jessi’s talk show help a lot, especially Jessi because of the way she talks lol

[@Spiritbound2346]

If i wasn’t a native speaker I honestly never would have tried to learn English as a second language

[@oluwamayowaolagbegi3768]

Ke-ni-ge-h-t 2021 new word added to the oxford dictionary 😅😅

[@oluwamayowaolagbegi3768]

@Ina Schneefink lit😅🔥👍🏽

[@mxxxn]

minji & heejin look so chic in their outfits

[@toastysock]

We love you! Lol, keep learning!

[@betamax1091]

Great job ladies! You all speak very well.

[@rohithr1797]

FUN FACT. At 3.20 : All that languages shown are spoken in India . 1. Hindi 2. Bangla 3. Kannada 4. Marathi 5.Tamil 6.Telugu 7.Gujarathi

[@chntlg7362]

3:01 me singing in mamamoo, twice, redvelvet, blackpink, loona, everglow, g-idle, bvndit, gfriend, clc, Iu, chungha, bibi, jessi.

[@LODintheshadows]

"I'm fine thank you, and you". Can confirm that most Koreans know this and say it the same way lol

[@brokenteletooby106]

MJ and Chacha are literally the most best people on this planet

[@kakushka]

Lolol why did Heejin sound 110% fully fluent in English when she said “b*tch,” I’m dying 🤣

[@SoSoKayla]

I'm so thankful to be a native English speaker. It'd be such a pain in the ass to learn it as a second language, it's so unintuitive. So many rules with so many exceptions.

[@Alex-dh2cx]

Contractions are my favorite part of English. I don't have the time to say " you all would have" when I can just say y'all'd've instead. Another fun regional one is y'all'll for "you all will."

[@gerhluharu_]

1:55 the most accurate meme of all time

[@Lieutenant_Dude]

2:36 stop please, you're killing Chacha.

[@robert-antoinedenault5901]

in pretty much all every country part of the commonwealth it is pronounced sal-mon and the k for(knight, knowing, knock ,knob) came from the French initially; the silent ' (as we know it now) is a remnant of Old English, and wasn't at all but pronounced along with the 'n'. Nobody really -nows why or when it but this change is believed to have transpired sometime around the 16th to 17th centuries.

[@grizzay4097]

5:53 The way she laughed. XD

[@thejasetuonoho4973]

This was really fun 😂😂

[@SunshineAMSR]

In the meme where it said “That’d be grate.” Is so funny because even English people struggle with it too.

[@hileif6628]

omg her pronouncing "bitch" with that straight up american "i" sound was SO funny oh my god

[@danadelacruzmartinez374]

I remember going to ESL in school though I already knew english 😂

[@artemis4eva]

You guys are so cute! You made me laugh and smile, Thank you ❤️

[@sunshineramirez7766]

lmaoaoaoa she said bitch with her whole heart 😂😂

[@NijimaSan]

“You kuhhhhhhnigg-ets!” There’s a Monty Python joke in there somewhere, I think. 😄

[@kimbtv3808]

Not her telling her mom to listen to 34+35 🤣🤣🥲 I’ dedddd

[@namelessone5968]

I literally had someone ask me "how are you?", I replied "I'm good" and that person just started laughing hard at me. Probably one of my most unforgettable moment on Tinder.

[@Logovanni]

Weird. That’s normal to say

[@CottidaeSEA]

English is fucked up, not my first language, but I have absolutely no issues with it and I have no clue why. Everything just makes sense to me, even things I encounter for the first time. Even if I just read a word, I can figure out how to pronounce it, even if I've never heard it before, and I don't know why. That's frustrating, to know something, but not knowing why. I should also mention that I've been using English on a daily basis for 20 years, so if anyone wants to know how to get better, just use it daily and read a lot of various texts.

[@a.j.1819]

English has no real rule system most of the time, but I still find it one of the easiest languages like you said. Russian, Arabic and Chinese are the most difficult I think.

[@tendoncobar]

3:20 yes,all of these languages are spoken in India 😁

[@bobcompton5145]

Even though English isn't your, native language, it's getting much better with every video, keep up the good work!!

[@dizzlebizzle8424]

bitch and beach are not words english speakers put together as being identical. that's a korean problem (and possibly other non-native speakers, but most notably i've seen it from koreans).

[@betamax1091]

holy shit the "K N i ght" part was so damn funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@beelzemobabbity]

Since America and American English is still pretty new history wise, there’s a lot of stuff seemingly...thrown in there from other countries.. that and even though there are grammar and spelling rules, there’s always some exceptions , especially in pronunciation.

[@user-ru3zw6lz9h]

"we pronounce Korean the same everywhere" NO YOU DON'T!!!! Satoori hello?????? That sh!t is so confusing XD

[@OmniMK]

Lmfao, we think the same things learning some of these words!

[@doricemichelle3614]

About music is really me,I'm non English speaker (I'm Swahili speaker from Tanzania 🇹🇿)but whatever the language is even if I don't understand but I feel like I understand it when I'm listening,I feel the vibe ,I like Korean,English, Chinese,Spanish e.tc and not even understand a word expect for some easy English songs,but if it's a slow motion song,I feel like it's a sad song and I play them when I'm sad if it's has dancing vibe ,I just play it and dance and sing along with it using my own words which doesn't exist in any language,one of them is my love by Lee he and Saldaga (Korean songs)

[@dorkyderpterio8649]

I teach ESL and I get this from students a lot but hEEEEEEEY it's a stepping stone and immersion is k e y

[@chrissim4115]

When I started learning English, the first words I learned were cuss words they most definitely helped in the process of learning the whole language 💀

[@reeeksss_]

Yaaaasss! Never failed to make me happy 😁

[@michaelmunno]

ahh to be young again, such lovely young ladies. I love your spirit, energy and positive attitude! 아, 다시 젊어졌으면 좋겠습니다. 사랑스러운 젊은 숙녀 여러분. 나는 당신의 정신, 에너지 및 긍정적 인 태도를 사랑합니다!

[@pitbullseatkids2682]

Ive never had trouble with things like their they're and there, but I always mess up a lot and alot.

[@lailabarr2561]

You guys should react to the Super Bowl commercials/half time performance

[@yewonstwomoms2542]

as a native English speaker, 1:34 is a worldwide feeling

[@GeographRick]

I'm the same with KPop and Jrock. I don't understand what I'm hearing, but I like it.

[@kyrat6079]

The one about silent letters was me learning french 😂

[@Camile1283]

Part of the problem with English is that the spelling was standardized before the pronunciation was. So, by the time everyone stopped pronouncing the K in Knight, they had already set the spelling as k-n-i-g-h-t and didn't feel inclined to change it. A lot of other words we borrowed/stole from other languages and then mangled.

[@7iscoe]

only about 6% of words been coined to be in english, most of english words are from getting conquered or new stuff has been found in fields of academics, literature, etc… english is a germanic/latin language by the terms

[@Rachel-ux9zk]

For me, all of these except in Korean - that one about the sentence in my head versus what comes out...never related more to anything 😅

[@primal1585]

I love how they accepted their viewers are native English speaking folks

[@Courtneygleach]

Fr

[@ohmygodjihyo9328]

4:01 that was said too personal