Fascinating! Namjoon also sometimes shifts between accents/dialects when speaking English. When in England or when speaking with James Corden (a US nighttime TV host) his accent goes British. And he sounds a little different when he speaks at the White House versus when he's speaking with Pharrell. It's fascinating. He's like a language sponge/chameleon.

this videos is making ARMYs understand how hard the volunteer translators work. I'm so thankful for them as they're one of the reasons that make this fandom connected to other fans and BTS.

4:15 Even though Namjoon comes across as a bookish intellectual, he's also a very online person. So I'm not surprised that he knows all these slang words. He's very much in tune with his fans 🤣

Namjoon has such an interesting approach to language. I’m constantly amazed by his insights into not just Korean but also English. Like in Seoul when he makes the distinction between one day ‘leaving’ Seoul but always ‘living’ Seoul. Or when he uses a Korean word that sounds similar to another Korean word and fuses both together and translates both into English to create a whole new meaning (flowerwork, bibily hills). He’s such a neologist. Reminds me of how Shakespeare coined new words.

It doesn't surprise me when you said his brain is working over time in the language department because as a lyricist/poet/rapper his brain is so skilled with words/language, he also interprets English for the boys at lightening speed!

This was *fascinating*. As a non-Korean speaker I'm always bummed that there's just some things about the way the boys talk and write their lyrics that I'll never really understand, no matter how much our fan translators try to explain, so this little glimpse gave me so much joy. Thank you so much. And thanks to your subscriber for asking you to do this.

Joonie picks up dialects from EVERYONE it doesn't even matter. I find it adorable even when he speaks with English speakers he picks up their accents too. I always wondered if he knows he does that I love his mind.

Danny Kim of dkdktv tried to translate a letter that RM posted online and you saw his struggle in realtime trying to translate it. He started doing a close translation and then becoming more and more general then just trying to give the overall intent of what he was saying and finally giving up, complaining that Namjoon was just too poetic. Now I have a better understanding of what he meant by that.

As a linguist and an army, this vid is seriously amazing. It’s fascinating to have people’s language broken down and for RM, knowing about his personality and who he is, his language use makes so much sense in the ways you described and explained. I’ve studied many languages including Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Mongolian and started learning Korean around a year ago. Korean is by far my favorite.

Yes love this! We call Namjoon's dialect as NAMTOORI and it's so him. This was insightful and Namjoon is an actual genius so the fact that his writing and speaking is poetic is no surprise to ARMY who live for his speeches and the song lyrics he wrote for BTS's entire discography as the main song writer. We love it and we love him.

Namjoon is the poet philosopher of the group. He's a wellspring of knowledge, incessantly curious, and a gifted wordsmith to boot. I think his mind works in very intriguing ways.

Also yes ARMY translators often have a heard time translating Namjoon because his words are so poetic and meaningful they want to potray it exactly but on the flip side he talks so fast it can sometimes be easy to miss!

Namjoon thinks a lot, he has a beautiful mind.

This is really interesting! Absolutely love it! You'll have to listen to their song "Paldogangsan" where they really explore the different dialects that they all speak! It's one of the songs that when I delved deep into BTS just made me love them more. I'd love to hear your analysis of it!

RMs relationship with language rivals Shakespeare. He weaves vast elemental tapestries of imagery, stories, concepts, moods, tones, sentiments, poetry, puns, triple entendres, and more, all with words. And much of this is clearly such a natural gift, he’s a conduit for communicating otherwise very difficult things. Because he wants people to be active participants in what he’s conveying, vs the very western style of being a passive receiver of words, coming from an authority figure or someone on a screen. Instead of giving you four he gives you two plus two. You have something very rare as a result; agency. He trusts us to arrive where we will.

Namjoon is so poetic even in normal conversations 🥹😍

I loved this, and would love a deep-dive on Namtoori! I hope when you get to Taehyung you'll discuss Taetae language too.

IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS SERIES OMGG the reason i started learning korean is because i wanted to understand bts more, we have amazing translations for everything but the nuances still get lost sometimes, and even tho ive been their fan for years now and know them pretty well it’s a bit disheartening when native korean speakers elaborate on the way they talked at a specific moment and the differences in intonations when speaking and i realise that i may not ever fully understand them and their quirks lol cause there’s only so much a translation can convey so thank you for this series. i love your videos so this is like my two worlds colliding haha

This video really adds value beyond my interest as an ARMY. It added further nuance of understanding about how and when to use 나 and 저. Even beyond BTS, I'll be watching for these kinds of "lessons" that come from reflecting on the word choices of native Korean speakers. Thanks for the effort you're putting in. I'm getting so much value from the money I've allocated to supporting you on Patreon; it's money well invested.

Yes! Part 2 of Namtoori please 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💜

I'm fascinated by how they use polite and casual language kind of freely. I've noticed before that the younger ones don't always say 저 or 요 and wondered if there were situations in which they could get away without it. But maybe it really is just that BTS magic

If you want a song that is pretty much textbook Namjoon language, listen to Spring Day!! It's my favourite song and the lyrics are really really poetic. He is one of the best-spoken people I've seen, and honestly I just love to listen to him talk. Even in English, which isn't his first language, he speaks so beautifully!!

Speaking of dialects, it'll be interesting to check out the BTS song "Paldogangsan"... Satoori song pretty much, speaking of the different regions using all the different Satoori, poking fun but in the end bring people together regardless of their differences. They also have an episode in their show Run BTS guessing satoori meanings. I think while most metropolitan areas (ie. Seoul, and the same syndrome exists in any country, Asian and West also, ie. New York City, Paris) tend to look down to dialects from countrysides (or even simply just not the major Metropolitan areas, like LA vs Texas), RM really has Korean soul (Suga mentioned this in "Let's BTS" show on KBS) and is really into culture, so he's embracing these satoori and various aspects in their Korean culture (of course, also with his members from many different regions), instead of being stuck up or snotty about it like stereotypical city people (again, not just a Korean thing, but world-wide, it's a society thing, I grew up in both Asia and US, it's really a stigma how city people hearing others speaking with country accents, no matter where you are.). Anyways, the point being, RM, 148 IQ, thoughtful and philosophical and well-read (helps in writing skills, their boss Bang-PD also said so when a younger member ask how to write lyrics with more depth and nicer word usage and expression), of course he's such a sophisticated human being. There's a reason why he's THE PRESIDENT... Hahaha...

Thank you for this analysis! Kim Namjoon has such an incredible talent for language. Look at his use of “y’all” in his AMA Artist of the Year acceptance speech last year. Not to mention being well read, e.g., quoting Hamlet (!) during his last speech at the UN (“the future is an undiscovered country” which the UN translators reflected as “unexplored territory”). Oh and he learned enough Spanish to cover Becky G’s part in Chicken Noodle Soup. The examples are endless.

This video gave so much insight to Namjoon's intellect! We all knew he was an incredibly talented poet and speaker, but this just reaffirms it for me! I can't wait to see the other videos in the series thank you for doing this!

This is such an awesome concept because international armys were just discussing how we’ll never experience what native Korean hear when they speak like their intonation, choice of words etc. THANK YOU FOR THIS AND THANK YOU FOR DOING RESEARCH WE APPRECIATE IT 💜💜💜

Korean seems so much like a puzzle. You really can take sections of multiple words and create a whole new one. That's so beautiful. I'm glad you're doing this series. Its fascinating to hear what their speech style really is like. I know RM is a poetic lyricist but it's cool to find out that he brings that poetic edge into his regular speech too. I can't wait to hear about the others.

This was so interesting, Billy! Cant wait for the rest of the series. RM definitely has a poetic style of speaking and writing. Suga is fast too (tongue technology is what he calls it). I watched a video analysis on each BTS member's song writing style and yes, RM's unique rapping style has poetic roots. So interesting that he knows all the latest trendy Korean slang (he's crazy smart though so it shouldnt be such a surprise).

Yay! Go Billy has fallen down the rabbit hole! I’m so excited for more. Namjoon will also adopt dialects in English too. British accent in Britain and US accent in the US. Thanks so much for breaking down their speech. I’ve been learning for about a year now and I love your videos. BTS videos will definitely get me back into learning again!

As an international Army this topic has always intrigued me . However me personally never could differentiate the dialect or accents that members use. This was such an informative video 👏💜 Above all Namjoon's writing made me feel like he is writing a novel in his unique style

Ok these 17 mins flew by…I feel like I could watch this analysis for ever! I literally can’t wait for the rest of the members! I also wish he could do a supplemental translation for every BTS vid out there with these details and nuances lol 💜💜💜

Just when I thought I couldn’t love Namjoon any more than I already do. How can someone be so gifted and excellent. 😍

Namjoon is no doubt a very deep minded person. He is naturally smart person! 💜🙂 I love all of the members uniqueness. They don't simply give an amazing performance, but you can really see they are a group of very smart and talented members! 💜 I love the word play they do with their lyrics!

You know, Namjoon is a genius, right? It's no surprise that he excels at language and speaks in an advanced and refined way.

this is a great video and i learned a lot from it, Billy. i have been so frustrated by not understanding the slang and you taking the time to go through it helped! army knows that namjoon is quite poetic, but the fact that you went through specific grammar and vocabulary as examples is also deeply appreciated. if you would ever be open to analyzing lyrics and helping army understand their poetic nature and meaning, also as a way for us to learn vocabulary - please, please do! understanding bangtan lyrics is what motivated me to learn korean in the first place (and thank you! your channel helped me a lot!). i can't wait for the rest of the series - thanks again.

BTS is the best selling Korean artist* of all time, not only group ☺

I think he is great adapting to language. And regardless of language or dialenct he will use the words that best describes the feeling or thought he wants to get across. Bc he does this with language between English/Korean. He even used Spanish in Home bc “mi casa” was a better choice

Thank you, Billy!! This video series is so interesting. As a language learner, it's always great to have an interest related to the language you are learning. BTS are so inspirational and learning their language to be able to appreciate them more has become a must for me. Also, Namjoon is such a wonderful person and artist, he always shines and stands out at everything he does. Thanks again! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

I was learning Korean (I got to Go Billy lesson 26) but unfortunately irl has put it on pauze but seeing this has really set my interest on fire again, it was very interesting to hear special focus on the way Namjoon speaks & excited for the complete series. Ofcourse we read translations of their songs & know they're amazing lyricists, but to hear about their daily speach, habits and the culture of it all really adds a special layer I didn't know I wanted to hear about. Thank you!

I can't thank you enough for this content ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! So many of us BTS fans that miss out because we can't understand Korean get sad about it

"Why BTS was so big" --->>> "Now I get it!" ...... See! Once you get you get to know them and go beyond the surface of an idol group, you really see how unique and sincere and down to earth they are a HUMAN BEINGS. Yes, good songs, good dancing, good looks, but what kept fans around are them as people, human beings, that made them loved and respected by millions. People who have worked with them (outside of their usual company staff that knows them already) are always amazed at how nice and good and humble of a person they are, considering their super star status. Which just to show you, if entertainment people are surprised how humble they are as super stars, imagine how many stars in entertainment they've encountered that are egotistical, snotty, diva, demanding, etc. Their sincerity and humanity is what really made them standout in this crazy entertainment industry. And common industry people still winder and trying to figure out "how do they do it?" Trying to analyze what's their WINNING formula to have so many loyal fans... umm... being good at your actual job as a MUSICIAN, and be a good person? They really broke what a stereotypical kpop idol is perceived as, and it's exactly what Bang-PD set out to do when he started everything. And personally, I think it's also fate-like that he met RM, bc they had the same ideals, and RM was the vessel, and Bang-PD gave him the platform and guidance. Without their fateful meeting, it might not be what it is today. The 7 member bond is also a result of RM's leadership (but then Jin was also a key factor in their group dynamics, heck, all 7 members brought their own value to the group) really set the tone since trainee periods, minimized some of the typical toxic competition gloom at other agencies (and Jin set the tone at the dorms being makhyung, he was loving and caring in his own way). Ah, sorry, went on a tangent, bc too many sentiments in their history. Haha... bottom line, success story, much?! Ha.

This was fascinating! I was particularly struck by the paradoxical combination of formal grammar constructions and poetic vocabulary with up-to-date youngster slang! But it isn't that surprising when I think about someone just being fascinated by language in all its forms. Probably also why he picks up and plays with dialect. (Also, LOVE the "reactor face" thumbnail! I literally cried laughing!)

If you look at Namjoon's lyrics they're all very poetic as well, he actually said before becoming a rapper he wanted to be a poet and he got into rap because to him writing rap is like writing poetry... So that's maybe why he speaks/writes in a kind of poetic way sometimes

I've started learning Korean because of Namjoon's lyrics. Now I understand it won't be easy 😁

My love for Korean began during the pandemic, when I started to watch Kdramas... the sound of this language is soooo beautiful! (I'm Chilean, but I live in Brazil). That's why I've learned it for almost two years. Nowadays I can understand some words hehehe it's very few, but I feel in heaven when I can understand a sentence! After the Kdramas, I fell in love with BTS and... here I am! I found you thanks to BTS. Thanks for your excellent lecture! Hope to learn more Korean with you... Borahae!! 💜💜💜💜💜

Your explanation is interesting and beautiful and as always BTS is one of a kind~

Amazing job!! You put so much work and research into it! I love this! All A.R.M.Y's will have a good sense of Namjoon's poetic nature and eloquance, but only a fluent Korean speaker will be able to catch all these nuances in his speech. This video is eye opening! Can't wait for the rest of the series!

as someone who has been watching your videos for almost as long as i've been learning korean (more than 2 years now!), & as an army (if my username wasn't indicator enough lol), this video was an absolute treat!! thank you so much for the video; you pointed out some really interesting things, some i knew before, but some i realised just now, & i can't wait for the next parts

I absolutely ADORE listening to Joon speak “Brit” whenever they perform in the UK - using words like “knackered” - words you don’t hear in America. I also love his British accent! He really is a language prodigy. I don’t entirely buy into the legend of his learning English by watching Friends. While the show might have motivated him to learn to speak English, and he probably did learn some conversational English from watching it, Namjoon is first and foremost a scholar and his strong command of English came from thorough language study. But, as previously mentioned in the comments, I love the way he tailors his English to the audience to which he’ll be speaking, for example spicing up his English with certain British slang words to speak to his British audience. I just adore everything about this man 💜💜💜

I started learning Korean because of GOT7 and BTS so I could understand them (I'm failing miserably at this point) so all I could do was laugh when you said you have to be advanced to understand RM. Can't wait to hear how advanced you need to be to understand most of them 🤣 love this series already!!

I hope to become fluent in Korean

As I’m learning Korean,besides the satoori, I noticed that each of the members have a certain way of speaking and thought that was always cool! It makes Korean more interesting to learn; even in English everyone speaks it differently so it’s fun to talk/listen to someone who has a unique way of doing it.

I had inferred from listening to the Bangtans converse that 나 and 저 both meant "I" as a subject, and I had guessed that choosing one or the other had something to do with formality and politeness (I'm a native speaker of American English, but I studied French for many years and my parents were both native speakers of Mandarin, Japanese, and Taiwanese Hokkien) but I had absolutely no idea why they chose one or the other when speaking to each other, since their relationships are long-established and they didn't seem to do it consistently. That's a level of social subtlety that even Bangtan Subs hasn't touched. Thanks for clearing that up! I look forward to seeing what you have to say about Jin, since he's such a character; plus, while he's the oldest, the members consistently joke about him being the "real youngest," which Jimin appeared to express as "막내 막내" in this conversation with RM (who then responded by naming 석진이, instead of 진형): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9Obm8ehx8uYgmQ.html

Thank you for efforts in making this video. Today I learned new thing about RM which I didn't notice before. He is such a genius and unique.

ahhh this was so funny and informative i loved it! Thank you very much 😭💗 ps: just a heads up that while i quite literally bursted out laughing at the "why? because he's weird! (unique)" comment i would advise not to do it with certain members (v) because of a history of mocking and rude comments made against him back in their early days, it's a sore spot for the fandom and now that i like your channel i wouldn't want to see you get attacked for calling him (v) weird or anything like that

It’s about time you fell down the rabbit hole! lol So happy to see you’re FINALLY an ARMY! Loved your in depth explanation of Namjoon’s dialect & look forward to your next 6 dialect vids!! You learned so much about Bangtan in a month! I’m envious of your Korean fluency & think you would make a great foreign actor/translator in Kdramas or as BTS’ personal translator for their comeback 2025! Thank you for doing this!

THANK YOU!!! I felt like I was taking crazy pills cuz I was told over and over you have to use 저 with anyone older regardless of the situation. But when I watch BTS I swear it's like 나 나 나 나 allll day every day. Thank you for de-gaslighting me. I look forward to the rest of the series as well. Especially Jin, since he's a special space-baby crashed landed from another planet and requires further explanation.

Can't wait for the others and thank you to the subscriber who suggested this

Thank you so much for doing this series! As a beginner in the language (and a huge fan of bts 😉) I find this incredibly fascinating! This is something you just can’t get through subtitles and really shows their personalities in a way that people who don’t speak Korean wouldn’t understand! 선생님 감사합니다!

I am sure you know that many of us found you in a quest to learn Korean in order to understand BTS’ lyrics and KDramas better. I started Japanese during the pandemic just to keep myself busy but this Spring, after a fall into the KDrama hole followed by and even bigger fall in to the BTS hole, I am seriously enjoying how much easier (IMO) Korean is than Japanese! I already liked it because, to me, it has similar intonation as English and the writing system was blissfully logical and easy to learn. Your videos are the best!! I have watched them many times. THIS video was the BEST! I was not surprised but I really appreciated how you analyzed Namjoon’s linguistic ‘nature’. He is amazing and seems like such a sponge for knowledge and language. You did not have any clips of his Encyclopedia of Useless Knowledge appearance, but on that show, he speaks slower and super clear. I cannot wait for Jin and his ridiculously funny way that he sometimes scolds the guys. I am sure it must be a ‘Korean thing’. Thank you for this series. I am looking so forward to it.

he's a brilliant man, i love his ✨uniqueness✨

This video was truly interesting and I am looking forward to the series. It is so interesting for people who don‘t know Korean but also for learners to understand just a little bit more about how BTS is perceived by Korean speakers. And it teaches more about their culture too. It’s a great idea and I like how you put it together :)

I still haven't been able to say some of their names right when I think I say them right my friends tell me I still say im wrong lol and I have been a fan of theirs since 2013 or 2016 or 2017 know I listened to them when I was in high school in 2013 im also a 94 baby lol

thank You For making video like this .. Being an Army. It's really interesting way for me to learn vocabulary .💜

This is so interesting! My 10yo is studying korean (intermediate level) and I'm sure she's really appreciate this being an ARMY! Thank you, Billy! 😍💜

i started learning korean because of RM's lyrics - they sound beautiful when translated but i want to understand them in the source language

This was so fun, entertaining and educational. I love it and can't wait to hear your analysis of the other members

I really appreciate your efforts and amount of research/observations you have share with us. RM is very poetic and such a deep thinker, as non-Korean speaker I believe we might have loss the depth of meaning due to translation. He have such a sexy brain and insane vocab, hahaha.

As someone who studies speech communication, im in love woth this series! I just started watching but the wag you describe their speech styles and how you articulated namjoon's articulation!! I love it!

He doesn’t need an English translator he’s fluent in English too🙃also thank you for delving into BTS!! & I think all of them at times talk insanely fast to the point that my brain hurts😵‍💫Korean is one of the hardest languages I’ve ever come across(to me anyways lol)I look forward to seeing more! Welcome to the BTS rabbit hole!💜보라해!🫰🏼

Really interesting! I can't wait for the videos about the other members and I'd love a part 2 about RM as well!!

I'm so glad that you're doing a video series about the BTS members' unique speaking styles.

This is such a cool series! Korean is a beautiful language, and I admire Namjoon’s poetic style of speaking Korean and coming up with new words. Thank you for translating and explaining!

This was so interesting and fun to watch! Thank you for shining a light on an aspect of BTS I haven't been able to really truly understand before - our amazing ARMY translators work hard but are often pressed for time (and tweet space)! Now I definitely understand why they often throw their hands up when Namjoon posts his letters and will say they need to really dedicate time for the translation. As a learner and a Yoongi bias, your comment about how easy Namjoon is to understand [especially compared to Yoongi] made me laugh so hard. I'm looking forward to his episode and all of the others a lot! Thanks again!

This was so fun and interesting, thank you! Please cover all of the different members - thy all have such unique ways of speaking. Also, this really highlights the hard work of ARMY translators who kindly volunteer to interpret and translate BTS on weverse, lives, in interviews etc.

Love this analysis! Also, I find it funny you mentioned translators would probably struggle with him because on Twitter army translators always mention how difficult it is to live translate his lives on weverse, for the exact reasons you mentioned lol

Found you because of this video. Love love the insight you are giving into how language choices and style say so much about a person in Korean. We English only folks lose so much nuance when we read most translations… You offer great insights. Thank you.

I love this video!! I love discussing Namjoon in any context possible... our forever leader, our flowerwork Kim Namjoon❤️

I’m really fascinated by this video- especially by your translation of Namjoon’s extremely poetic writing Because I was just wholly unaware that he was speaking/writing in that way I’d love to hear more about it and about that grandiose, old times sounding version/style of Korean

I feel like it was just the other day that I was trying to explain 보라해 in your comments 😂 I learned so much from this! I'd heard of 남투리 but didn't really understand... It sounds like he's constantly playing with words. I can relate, too - I'm also a writer and sometimes a poet, started writing poetry quite young, and I'm fascinated by language... And I read a whole lot of 19th century literature before I reached double digits. I continued to read absolutely everything I could, but found archaic language fascinating. The end result of this is that when my partner and I were writing an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, I wrote all the dialogue we had to invent. I have a bizarrely huge English vocabulary, full of words no one has used in hundreds of years 😂

I am in heaven right now. I started learning Korean because I wanted to be able to understand BTS without subtitles, and understand their sentiments behind their messaging in Korean. So the fact that you're doing a series on each member is absolutely a dream come true. I have always wondered if anyone else thought Suga was hard to understand, so I'm really excited to watch that episode. As an intermediate learner, Suga tends to be really hard to understand for me. Anyways, excited to see this series!

The reason RM keeps up with this sort of slang is because he wants to communicate with his active fans. Active fans, who are generally the fans on social media and platforms such as Weverse, tend to be younger. Passive fans (their biggest fan group) are generally in their 30's and 40's and not massive users of fan sites, though there are still some on them. Also, Jin is considered the youngest by the other members.

As a Linguistics student, this entire video was of special interest to me. 😍I look forward to the sequential videos!

This was fascinating. If you ever decide to do a full translation of one of those Namjoon writings you quoted, I'd love to see/hear it. I'm always interested in the nuances of the original thought and expression of it before translation.

really fun video!! Excited to see the rest. I wonder if you stumbled upon their song Paldogangsan where they rap about their different dialects? If not, you should definitely check it out, it’s a really fun song :D

Most beautiful human in the whole universe ✨️ 💜 Kim Namjoon 💖

This is really amazing, Billy! Thank you so much! 💜

Oh he’s in deep 😂 I love this! The word interesting doesn’t even cut it. Can’t wait to watch all the other ones!

It's the first time I see one of your videos and wow, this is amazing. As someone who is their fan and can't understand Korean, I've always wanted to know more about the way they talk and express themselves and this video helped me a lot to understand it better. Thank you! Can't wait for your video about Yoongi and Jimin!

Wow Kim Namjoon is really a language genius. Thanks for this .

OMG!!! This video was pure gold hahahaha From the explanation to the new vocab learned here hahaha and that wig just made the video 🤣🤣 can't wait to see the rest and I am definitely sharing this with all of my Korean learner friends. Thanks again Billy!

Oh wow someone finally covering Namtoori.. i speak 3 other languages and am evading learning Korean fluently. I appreciate this episode.

I've been a subscriber of yours for many years, and a fan of BTS for many years. I'm really looking forward to the rest of this series!!

I ENJOYED WATCHING THIS OMG!! 💜😭 I get to understand him more after so many years of stanning bts, because of this explanation. Thank you!💜

Loved this! BTS was the reason I started learning Korean. 💜

Namjoon is a genius and a poet.

i’m so so hyped for this series omg! i’ve been thinking a lot about the differences between all the members’s language and speaking habits and i’ve been craving an analysis like yours! like, i’m a low intermediate speaker, and while i’ve been noticing that i understand most of what jimin says, and a lot of what jin and jk say, but sometimes i can barely figure out what namjoon is even talking ABOUT when he speaks, still i definitely couldn’t analyze this as well. i’m incredibly hyped TT thank you lots

This was really enjoyable. Linguistically I am very similar to RM, not in poetry vocab but I very easily absorb words and speech patterns like dialects, use new self combined words if it feels more fitting than existing words in the moment, I also speak fast but with clear annunciation, and I very often get told I use unusual words. The trailing off topic and back again is a habit I've tried hard to fix because I could tell people found it annoying. A fun story of absorbing dialect. Sweden has many dialects and one time in school we had to go work someplace for 2 weeks to get graded on things like teamwork, how well we take directions, etc. I went pretty far from north to south to take the opportunity to travel. In the middle of week 2 I was sweeping the floor and a customer asked me a question which lead to a conversation and she goes "you have a slight accent, where are you from?" I told her, and she asked the common follow-up question how long I had been there and I said almost 2 weeks and she was flabbergasted. She told me she expected 6 years or something because I spoke in the local dialect. I think if RM lived somewhere like Busan or something for a while I think he would have the same experience within a pretty short time frame. Both he and I learned a lot of English with Friends and it makes it extra enjoyable to learn Korean via Run BTS and interviews now. His mind fascinates me.

5:54 I have totally noticed this, as a higher level beginner learner. Sometimes I can almost follow convos with the other members, but Joon is on another level. I chalk it up to him being an actual intellectual and talking about high concepts that you don't come close to learning as a beginner lol

Wow~ You gave me a lot of Korean information through BTS' conversations. The detailed analysis of RM is particularly impressive. I am a 'Korean' studying English. With Korean content and English explanations, I understand well and it helps me a lot. thank you. 와~ BTS의 대화를 통해서 많은 한국어의 정보를 주셨네요. 특히 RM에 대한 자세한 분석이 인상 깊습니다. 전 영어를 공부하는 '한국인'이에요. 한국어로 된 컨텐츠를 가지고, 영어로 설명을 들으니 잘 이해가 되고 저도 많은 도움이 됩니다. 감사합니다.