the way you are giving felix compliments makes me happy. he's still insecure about his korean, so seeing someone like you who has studied for years complimenting him makes me happy. thank you.

Imagine going to Korea, knowing nothing but English, having to learn another language with a different alphabet, training and practicing day and night... AND THE STRESS TOO??? The stress of the survival show would have made everyone lost their Korean 😭 However, I'm really proud of Felix and his improvement

chan did speak korean back in australia! he said that they would mix korean and english a lot, and the times we've seen his parents they do speak korean to him and his siblings so he did use it before, he just started using it almost full time once he moved

Bangchan speaking so passionately about a donut 😂

You said " i am not perfect " but As a korean i think your korean skill is better than meㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Ironically, Felix was eliminated because his korean isn't good enough..

Watch BangChan mentioning this video in his next live ahahaha

9:04 “Felix look at you, you’re doing it!” Okay but why did this make me emotional 🥺 I’m so so so incredibly proud of Felix. I can only imagine how scary and stressful it would be to move to a new country at 17 by yourself where you can BARELY speak the language, and you’re not just living your life as a normal kid, but going through intense trainings to jumpstart your career where communication is especially important. I could never. Felix is amazing

hyunjin (another straykids member) always talks about how he likes that felix talks bc felix talks in a formalish way

I think another important thing to add is that Bang Chan writes lyrics which encompasses skills of writing a language which is difficult by itself and even more when it's for music. Chan can read, listen, speak and write Korean the way I think most natives can so I always think that he is a native speaker.

Even until now, 2021, Felix is still insecure about his korean. Seeing someone professional like you complimented him make me feels happy. I can say he improved a lot this year, he did a good job. It’s not easy to learn a new language when he himself is so busy with his schedule as an idol. I’m proud

I know this comment is probably up here but members from NCT and WayV would be really interesting, they are probably the most dominant group in the category of foreign members, especially WayV for Chinese being the main language in the groups’ songs but still singing and communicating in Korean in other videos. Probably more specifically, Ten (I believe he knows 5 languages..?) and Yangyang (I think Korean is the most recent language for him?)

as a stay and an avid Billy's lessons learner, i never expected this crossover, this makes me very happy thank you 🥺

i really like that you pointed out that just because they have korean parents doesn't mean they'll know how to speak korean. this applies to a lot of families from countries that don't speak english. i'm afro-latina and just about everyone in the older generations of my family can speak spanish, but the younger ones (like myself) can't. it's took me a long time to understand that this is okay because growing up, other hispanics wouldn't believe i was hispanic solely because i couldn't speak spanish

i'm here because of stray kids AND because Billy is a great teacher, love it

You don’t understand how LONG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

When Chan was growing up, his parents spoke to him and his siblings in English and Korean around the house. So when he joined JYPE, he was already pretty much fluent if not completely fluent

Bang Chan usually helps Felix with his Korean whenever he doesn’t understand what the members are saying in Korean

1:36 Felix and the other eliminated member, Lee Know, were brought back due to the backlash from fans. In the last episode JYP said that he still saw lots of flaws in some members but relented to hold a public vote to take viewers opinions into account, and they were voted back in with overwhelming majority. I’m really glad the boys all debuted together :)

0:27 *"All I can say is, *DUDUDUDU intensifies*"* I legit laughed out loud.

someone needs to send this to felix ! he’s insecure about his korean and this would totally boost his confidence ^-^

I'm not crying, you're crying. 🥺 I'm so proud of Felix! If you guys are wanting to learn Korean, use him as your inspiration!!

I hadn’t heard Lix’s side by side Korean improvement and it really motivated me (and made me cry lol) ty for this video !! i really really enjoyed it

Actually, Chan did speak Korean back in Australia from what we know. He's talked about it sometimes during his lives and his family has a KZfaq channel in which we often hear them speak Korean. Or at least for the ones I've watched, since I didn't watch everything either. So he probably had good basis when moving to Korea as well! ^^ (which has you say multiple times doesn't erase the effort and progress he's made!) It's also a very interesting analysis regarding Felix's tone! I didn't notice through the years, so it's great to hear the difference with those clips back to back! And the hear the phenomena progress he's made as well!! I remember back in 2017, when they were doing lives and he was mostly watching and listening on the side, focusing on what was said. And now he's taking part fully into group conversations and that's really beautiful 🥰 The video also made me learn some new things regarding the language! (I finally know how to say 2 months as in the time that has passed and not the month.. thanks for that haha, took me 3 years 😅) Always learning a little more everyday~ Thanks a lot for this video!

Also fun fact: Chan actually attended high school in korea when he went there to train. He went to the same high school as Seungmin and was in natural science faculty..so I believe he had been kind of a proficient speaker by then

You are super familiar with Kpop as well. (Even more than me) To be honest I'm watching your videos to study English as a Korean teacher lol.. It's super helpful. You are basically an English teacher and a Korean teacher at the same time.

The most interesting one would be the japanese of izone since they only started learning Korean about 2 years ago and they all started at the same time.

As a language learner myself these boys, especially Felix, are a huge inspiration. I've been learning Russian for about seven years (I'm 18 now) and sometimes I feel bad that I've been studying for so long but still don't feel very fluent. Felix improved so much in such a short time, it makes me hopeful that if I practice enough and stop worrying about mistakes I'll get better :)

NCT has a lot of non-Korean members! Johnny/Mark from USA/Canada, Yuta from Japan, Ten from Thailand would be interesting :)

As an Aussie I'm so proud of Felix and Chris. I confess perhaps my favourite videos are seeing a broad aussie accent come out of those beautiful Korean faces 🤣

I agree with one of the comment which said NCT members, but also Seventeen and Treasure has quite a few foreign members, so I think they would be interesting as well

Seventeen would be really interesting as they have two Chinese members, one member who grew up in America and one who moved to Korea when he was 5 (I know Vernon is fluent btw, i am a carat, I just think it would be interesting to see Billy's reaction, even if he just says that he's a native)

Yaaas I was waiting for this. Nct has the most non Korean members btw (WayV as well)

11:08 this part omg, but it's good to know your voice naturally changes in a different language, I was trying to keep the same natural tone I have in Korean, but it sounds really weird haha... I'll just stop doing that

Can you do Renjun and Chenle of NCT Dream too? They are Chinese but they sometimes joke around saying their Korean is better than the Korean members 😂

I love these series! I suggest GOT7 for the next episode - Mark (USA), Jackson (Hong kong) and Bambam (Thailand)

i am running to our living room to beg my dad to make him buy some donuts

This was such a positive and respectful video - thank you for cheering them on! I hope Felix gets to see this because he has said before that he's still not so confident in his Korean skills, some kind words like this might help boost him see he is doing even better than he thinks :)

It would be really nice, if in some of next episodes you'll talk about Got7's or NCT's foreign members

Thank you so much for doing Felix and Bang Chan!!! As a Stay learning Korean this was super inspiring :)

23:43 I must say tho, we use this sound in Australia as well, perhaps not the exact sound, but an inwards breath through gritted teeth when we're thinking for sure

Please analyze G-Idle's foreign line - Minnie, Yuqi and Shuhua

3y has passed and Felix is now more popular in SK than ever.. So here I am asking for an update maybe? I'm sure his Korean has improved phenomenally since then

I think Jae from Day6 is a good one to analyze!

I would love it if - now in 2023 - you would revisit Felix's and Bang Chan's Korean to see if they've improved since your 2021 video.

Must've been hard to research about stray kids since they have a lot of contents 😆 thank you for this, felix worked very hard learning korean, he couldn't speak korean at all when he first arrived in korea to become a trainee. His member lee know, helped him a lot in learning korean too and the members have talked about how felix studied diligently everyday. Felix is still learning while bangchan is almost a native speaker now.

16:31 Chan is so cute i swear this shows that literally everyone falls for Chan, Billy is just smiling at THE CUTENESS

As a korean learner, i find these videos soooo useful! They show great examples of mistakes any new learner could easily make and it makes me feel more motivated to study this beautiful language

yay ive been waiting for this one :D thanks for making a video on them ^^ i think it would be fun looking at the group NCT as 14 out of 23 members are foreigners / lived in other countries before. with them it's really interesting to see the range in their fluidity in korean because there are some who have been learning korean for almost 10 years and others who only started about 2 years ago.

I’m so proud of felix pleaseee 🤧🤧🤧 you don’t know how heartbreaking it was watching him struggling with life in a new country, not knowing the language, the dance, the techniques, all at 16 years old. Imagine. He does sounds awkward at times, BUT his improvements are amazing. And yes, he IS inspiring 😭😭😭 우리 뽁이 넘 잘했엉 👍🏼👏🏼

I’m a Japanese STAY and working as a Japanese language teacher. Though I don’t understand Korean at all, your analysis was so interesting. Especially about the part of making new personality when people start to learn a new language, I totally agree with you!! FYI, BangChan speaks Japanese with English accent, not with Korean accent. Anyway compared to my poor English, their Korean is good enough to use at work!! I’m so proud of them.

When Chan started eating his donut, I immediately looked at Billy and thought “You want to eat too, right?” 🤣

I’m really glad I watched this video! When you talked about “sounding like a native”, you broke it down really well. I feel like sometimes we obsess over it. We are never going to speak like a native because we aren’t a native. This was super helpful especially when it comes to not just learning grammar but tones and sounds. Thank you so much!!!😌😊🥺

오빠 사랑해요 고마워! 🤣 Thanks for doing them. I’ve been wondering how gold Chan is and how Felix has grown. We appreciate you. 🙇‍♂️

those who learn korean from drama learn those sounds "kkh" and similar sounds even before learning hangul.

Chan actually is a native Korean speaker! He was born in Korea and his family moved to Australia when he was young; he wasn’t born there. He’s said he learned English there when he started going there to school while he already knew Korean. He then moved back to Korea and had the opportunity to “refresh his memory” for some time before joining Stray Kids. Felix’ family has been in Australia for two to three generations at this point. Felix has said he mixed Korean and English a lot, but it’s a given that the Korean in his household was very limited since his family has lived outside of Korea for a while.

(G)-Idle's Yuqi, Minnie and Shuhua next please! You sure going to be amazed with their skills

Chan is fluent in Korean but there are some words that he can’t really pronounce. Like he didn’t know what the Scorpio zodiac sign was in Korean so the members just had to tell him but he does know the word

wow this analysis was sooo complete 😯 even helped me to realize some korean language aspects I didn't know!

I’ve always wanted to know how good Felix’s Korean was bc I knew he only started learning Korean in 2017. I’m glad he’s getting better, I’m so proud. He makes me want to work harder on my Korean, if he can learn Korean in 3 years then so can I😌(if I study hard enough📚😁)

I've been learning korean with you for a while because of SKZ, so excited to see you do this!

omg as a stay and as someone learning Korean through your content, this video really makes me happy !!

11:07 *instant flashbacks to jackson's "AnNyEoNgHaSeYo!"*

Me learning Korean and being so excited to find this channel.

I really enjoyed this video Billy! Here's some of my suggestions~ NCT Mark and Yuta Seventeen Jun and The8

OMG YAYYY i've literally been waiting for this video ㅠㅠ

you should study ni-ki and jake from enhypen ni-ki is japanese and jake is australian with korean parents

I seriously watch your videos from beginning to the end, and that’s rare for me 😂 I don’t realize it until the video is over. I’m a beginner in learning Korean so this is very very informative! Thank you!

Hello! Can you please also do IZ*ONE’s Japanese members, Sakura, Nako, and Hitomi? Prior to coming to Korea for Produce 48, they know little to none of the Korean languange. It’s been a little more than two years already since they debuted so I’m wondering if you can see how much they’ve improved :)

Bang Chan and Felix are awesome!! 🖤🖤🖤 I'm so glad you analyzed them as I'm a total sucker for them and Stray Kids. I'm glad you became a Stay(their fan club name) with your duu duu duu. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thank you! 🥀

During his and Bang Chans interview with Eric Nam, Felix said he pretty much only knew how to count in an Australian accent when he went to Korea. Great job at picking up on that in your assessment 👍

Felix is our hard-working sunshine and Stray Kids would never be the same without him

love to see you complimenting felix’s korean! I’m so amazed by how he basically taught himself a whole language. he’s an inspiration for sure!! also seemed like you were falling for our leader a little!! haha he is so charming and cute (also super talented)! great video! thank you! 💖

OH WOW HI I FOLLOWED BILLY BECAUSE I WAS SO EAGER TO LEARN KOREAN SINCE I DISCOVERED STRAY KIDS HHH NOW HES ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT THEM WOW

You: *Releases this video and mention Stray Kids* Me: I'M COMING!!

you should do a video about sakura, hitomi and nako from izone! they started korean at the same time and they all are japanese!

Would be interesting if you did a video about Got7 members, they are from 3 different countries- USA, Thailand and Hong Kong. They've been a group since 7 years so there is a lot of material showing their improvement

Felix is really relatable to me since I know exactly how it feels to arrive in a new country with near to no language ability (I grew up in Poland but moved to England) and I also know how hard it is especially in formal settings to wrap your head around everything. It took me 7 years to learn the language and accent enough for natives to think I'm a native as well but I still have quite a lot of slip ups here and there. I'm so happy to know that there are other people that I can share that experience with. ♡:)

this video is actually pretty good at explaining! & im glad you said it lightheartedly, they would be happy to see this :)

Felix talking with YG is me in my korean classes at university (which is kinda sad, since I am supposed to be A2/B1 in my 3rd Semester 😅, but learning through online classes and not in person is pretty hard)

I kinda wanna suggest nct but I don't want to overwhelm him cause they have 13 foreign members💀

Poor Felix….he was so new to Korean and its WAY different hearing you or another teacher (who speaks slowly and distinctly) than hearing a native speaker go full throttle in an normal pace. Things can sound completely different 🤣

Thank you for your insight!! Could you please do G-idle? foreign line: Minnie (Thai) Shuhua (Taiwanese) Yuqi (Chinese)

i’m learning korean right now and this video was weirdly so helpful?? like the stuff you mentioned about tone and flow, it really put it in perspective for me. thank you so much!

Omg i was waiting for this video but that was too early wow straykids domination

it would be interesting if you analyzed rosé from blackpink's korean! she was born in new zealand and grew up in australia. she moved to korea at the age of 15/16. although fluent, she sometimes points out how she has a slight accent, some people have pointed it out too. there's also been some cases where she's sort of afraid of using bigger words because she isn't certain if they're the right words. she also has two different personalities when she speaks english and korean. i'd recommend looking at some of her variety show appeareances from 2016/2017 and compare them to some of her more recent appearances.

The fact that this is 3 yrs old, and I've only been studying 6months Youngbok has came so far, being a native is the difference but as a learner and teacher it has came to a better understanding in present times than the year of 2015(I believe) when he started as a trainee I'm not a native but when learning I realized a lot of mistakes natives make but it's more of moderation to put it in short

As an English speaker who’s currently a Korean beginner, Felix is a big inspo

I just started learning korean and I'm so impressed at how good you can speak korean as a foreigner. I want to be that good too ^_^

Omds yess I was hoping for this video!! Great vid as always~

loved this video! it’s been so amazing seeing felix improve over the years! could you do vivi from loona next? she’s the only foreign member of loona

someone pls make a prayer circle for bang chan and felix watch this materpiece omg i love the way this guy grading them . like he have really nice voice of teaching and he even give a good detail ! keep a great job dude

This is such a cool concept of video and very interesting too !!

this is so interesting thanks for making this!!!! been wanting a skz once since you did twice 😂 so glad it’s here!!

I enjoyed this soo much!!!

Like you said, language is a tool for communication and its most important function is to transfer ideas and for people to be understood, so long as you can do that in whatever language, then I would say you can speak that language.

Thank you so much. I have learned a lot and look forward to more reaction Korean language tips. You combined learning with stray kids was awesome.

I am so fascinated by the Korean Language and culture. Felix really gives me hope that I too can speak some Korean one day. Finally found time to start learning the basics, wish me luck!

Hello Billy! I just wanted to say that you are a great teacher and I really enjoyed watching this video. You are really respectful and mindful while pointing out their strengths and weaknesses and you have such a positive aura. Thank you for the video, you deserve the praise! :)

hi billy! love this skz analysis video sm!! the first time i got to know skz, i didn’t even realize that felix went from knowing very little korean to where he is at now, and that always amazes me 😮 i would also like to see you analyze the &TEAM members’ korean 🥹 &TEAM is a 9-member boy group from HYBE’s japanese label! 7/9 of their members are japanese, and one of them is taiwanese!! however, their leader is korean and they have been promoting in japan and korea back to back, most of their staff are also korean so they have been learning korean! i would really appreciate it if you could look into them ❤️❤️