Wu shi nu xing xibie wo hui shuo hanyu .ika nai wo laizi zhunguo.mei guanxi. 😂😂😂zuan xang,hu jia hu wei.

Hehe, I learned to sing the Korean National Anthem before I learned how to say Hello in Korean, lol! And I had to sing it at a public Korean war ceremony in front of many Korean people. Korean people were, as always, very gracious, but I think I was very bad at the pronunciation. A Korean person actually sang the Australian national anthem. She was lots better than me, lol - she could speak English. :-))

Korean or any language for that matter, I remember back in the day being so obsessed with English that I listened to a song a lot of times just using the booklet that comes with a CD. Everytime I look back I realized that it's the same thing I'm doing with Korean (and Japanese, because of Twice) but since this time the script is different I rely on my ears because romanization makes it harder for me.

So true. I can sing Goodbye by Park Hyo Shin in Korean and several BTS songs. I also can sing some Japanese songs. While I do have a very basic vocabulary of Korean words (hello, thank you, excuse me, my name is, and curse words etc..), do not try a conversation in either language with me.

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At the age of 8! That’s so specific😂but oddly accurate

Exactly! His English is sooo good, I'm always so impressed

@@charismarie6612 “That’s so specific😂but oddly accurate” Haha, yeah, seven or eight. Well, earlier than that and he probably wouldn’t have an accent at all; later than that (10, 11 or 12) and he could still speak almost “natively” but possibly (probably but not necessarily) with more of an accent.

You are so right. I think that’s pretty much valid to any immigrants. To me, Hyun Woo’s accent sounds like someone who immigrated at the age of 8-9 and speaks Korean with parents at home. I find that normally one won’t have much accent if they immigrated before 8. The best is that he actually has never lived in America before. Some people are just born with language talent.

We use English with each other like you see in the video, unless we're around someone else who prefers Korean in which case we use Korean.

@@GoBillyKorean Any particular reason for that, or it just happen that way from the start? :)

@@wowJhil I just use whatever language is easier for whoever I'm with. It depends on the person. Many of my friends prefer using English for various reasons, and others I've never even heard them speak a word of English before.

@@GoBillyKorean This has always fascinated me. When I first came to Korea (5 years ago), everyone spoke English to me, because my Korean was basically limited to "Hello/Goodbye and crudely introducing myself, lol), although I was always trying to speak Korean at my level, whatever that was at the time. I'm STILL sadly upper beginner, of course, but I feel like I'm finally starting to acquire some tiny aspects of intermediate level now - I can understand at almost an intermediate level some video dialogues that I listen to over and over again, but not much real conversation, because I can only hear that once, lol. But now I find that a lot of Korean people convert to Korean with me, intermittently, when they lack the English words. So we kind of sometimes speak a mixture of Korean and English - sometimes they know the English word we need and sometimes I know the Korean word we need. It feels kind of like a job promotion in some ways, and I assume that as my Korean gets better (my listening has specifically improved recently, thank goodness!!) I will get to converse more and more in Korean, I hope. 🙂 It feels kind of like an innate language negotiation thing that automatically happens between two people, and they end up using whichever language or mix works between them at any given time. Does that sound accurate?

@@fransmith3255 Yes, the more Korean you learn the more people may want to switch to Korean with you when they don't know what to say. It can be more relaxing to some people if they know that you can already speak Korean, if they're not confident in their English. But also in general, once you can have full Korean conversations you'll simply meet people who don't want anything to do with English.

"You sound worse" LOLOLOLOLZ

Your comment is on point!!! I speak English and Spanish as well. I have been learning Korean for just a little over a year. Your statement, " I could almost feel my brain changing as I learned to do it "describes what I feel as well. Best to you on your language journey!

I read a good tip the other day, of using the Speech function of Papago to practice talking. You basically would say what you want to say and Papago transcribes it back to you. If it transcribed it back correctly, you know your pronunciation is probably really good, if not...well just keep on practising ❤ That way you can practice without fear of embarrassing yourself 😊

It matters a lot *how* you're studying. Just watching TV shows won't help make you fluent unless you're doing a lot of studying alongside of that so your brain has something to compare it to. Other things you can try are increasing how much practice you're doing, by finding some online Korean friends to talk with.

Definitely not. Just search KZfaq-either this channel or TTMIK. Billy and Hyunwoo have been in a lot of videos before this one.

yeah, there are several collab videos.

I figured it out by asking my 64 year old mom. It’s called 희망사항 by 변진섭 and it came out in 1989.

Here’s the link to the song kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNqUis6Hyre8f5s.html

This song is so fun! I learned a lot of vocabulary to describe my perfect woman. Ideally someone who can cook 김치볶음밥

because giyeok just like ㅈ, ㄷ and ㅂ change their sound depending on where they are. when they are at the beginning they are more soft. in the middle they are more tough.

ㅂ, ㅈ, ㄷ, ㄱ are voiceless (like p, ch, t, k but without airpuffs) at the beginning of a word but voiced (like b, j, d, g) between vowels

고빌리 뱀파이어설ㅎㅎㅎ

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rth6lc2Tq8-me58.html for reference lol

Was he rude

Absolutely not. He's a great guy.

Honestly never would never imagine a Murica’ guy like you being interested in other cultures. That’s interesting

@@graciekattan6618 I'm not sure what kind of insult you ment that to be, but I deffinitely took it as one. You added nothing to the discussion, all you managed to do was make yourself look stupid. Good job.

It's the Eluktronics MAX-15.

I don't think I'm any smarter than the average person. You don't have to be super smart to learn Korean. Anyone can learn it fluently with just time and practice :-)

@@GoBillyKorean thanks billy your teh best korean teacher your livestreams and videos are super useful for me.

Not this video, but a different video.

Right now I'm not in Korea. I'm in Korea about 3-4 months of every year, and I'm going back again soon :-)

Humiliating myself.

@@GoBillyKorean You're a brave soul. I couldn't pull a video from yesterday and not be cripplingly embarrassed.