🇰🇷 Felix (Stray Kids) vs. Lisa (BLACKPINK): What makes their Korean SO NATURAL

Hey, it's Yeji from Talk To Me In Korean. In today's video, let's talk about the Korean language skills of two super famous K-pop idols: Felix from Stray Kids and Lisa from BlackPink! Felix and Lisa were the most requested idols for this video. As you might already know, both are obviously amazing Korean speakers but after watching this video, you'll understand exactly what contributes to their natural Korean fluency! His Korean sounds incredibly natural. 너무 자연스러워요! I mean, he tends to speak a bit slowly but his grammar, word choice, and intonation, everything is on point! For your reference, Felix is Korean Australian. He was born and raised in Australia and came to Korea in 2017 for his idol training, so he's been living in Korea for 7~8 years now! What's interesting is, Lisa is Thai and has no Korean ethnicity. So, it'll be fascinating to see how their backgrounds influence their Korean! There are two things I want to point out in this clip. Felix said "레시피를 알고 싶다고 해 가지고요." "so-and-so 가지고" "so-and-so 가지고" is a colloquial expression for so-and-so -서(because). So instead of "해서요", you say "해 가지고요." But did you notice something strange? It's written as "해 가지고" but he pronounced it more like "해 가주구요" You'll hear so many natives pronounce 가지고 as 가지구 or even 가주구 like Felix did! It seems like he has this habit of saying "습니다" as "슴다" like 같슴다, 같슴다 instead of 같습니다. 브라우니 레시피인 것 같습니다 vs. 브라우니 레시피인 것 같슴다. Can you hear the difference? And this is also a very common way that native speakers pronounce it, especially when they say 습니다 quickly. And it makes his Korean sound even more natural because it can only be picked up by listening to a lot of native speakers. Now, I'm not saying you have to start saying 같슴다 from today, but I just wanted to point out that these moments, along with his perfect way of speaking, show how immersed he is in Korean! So, Lisa from BlackPink. She came to Korea from Thailand in 2011, so she's been in Korea for 14 years! As you just heard, Lisa has a lot of aegyo and her Korean sounds very cute and lovely! And her lovely Korean suits her cute smile really well, giving off a lovable vibe. And her Korean is so much like a native speaker. At first, I was like "Is this even possible for Lisa to speak Korean this fluently even though Korean is not her first language" But apparently, she came to Korea at the age of 14, you know, at a relatively younger age, and she now speaks 4 languages (Thai, Korean, English, Japanese), so she seems to have taught herself how to learn foreign languages! This part is so cute. She thought the line started with "네", like "yes" but it turned out 네 as in four, 네 권의 사진집, four photobooks. It seems like she relatively has more difficulty in reading compared to speaking! Which one is more difficult for you guys? Speaking or reading written text aloud? In this part, Lisa said 짝은 instead of 작은, 짝은 and 작은. 더 작은 무대에서 했거든요. This is also a very common way that native speakers pronounce 작다. I mean it's not a standard pronunciation, but so many people pronounce it like Lisa did! Another example is 던지다. to throw, 던지다. You'll hear many native speakers pronounce them as 떤지다, 떤지다. I was wondering what Felix's Korean would sound like in a more comfortable setting. This is a really cute vlog where he went all the way to Australia to surprise his younger sister. What a cute 남매, right? And it looks like Felix has used both Korean and English in his household. Felix and his sister are naturally going back and forth between Korean and English. "내가 긴장하면 안 되는데? 내가 놀래키는 건데?" And this one 놀래키다 is also a very natural expression. The standard Korean would be 놀라게 하다 but again, many natives would say 놀래키다 in casual conversations! 놀래키지 마! Don't surprise me! 놀래키지 마~! By the way, I wish I had a brother like Felix… he's so sweet! So natural, 진짜 자연스러워요! If I had to explain the same situation in Korean, I'd have used the exact same expressions that Lisa did As she talks with her band member, Rose, she seems to be more comfortable so her Korean sounds even more natural. Everyone, did you hear what she said before "왜 먹는지 모르겠던 거죠"? Did you get it? Did you get it? She said 긍까 왜 먹는지 모르겠던 거죠. It's 그러니까. 그러니까 왜 먹는지 모르겠던 거죠. If you've watched Korean TV shows or dramas, you'll hear people saying 긍까, or even like 까 to say 그러니까. 그러니까 is too long to enunciate. 긍까 뭐 했어요? 긍까 언제 와요? like this! As both Lisa and Felix are super good at Korean, it's hard to imagine them being clumsy with their Korean. But then, I found this video. This is actually a really famous meme. So even those who are not familiar with K-pop idols are likely to know this meme in Korea. I mean, Felix's pronunciation is super good probably because he already used some Korean with his family, but he couldn't understand basic sentences like 외국에서 왔어? so he had to ask every single question two times. Considering how good his Korean is now, it's intriguing to see him having so much difficulty understanding basic Korean back in 2017! I can tell how much effort he had to put into his Korean to achieve such high fluency in a short period of time. And the same goes for Lisa! It seems like this video is only from a few years ago, but Lisa is having so much more trouble with what's written on her cue card. She eventually gave up reading it! Actually Lisa once mentioned that she could barely say "안녕하세요" when she first came to Korea. When you see Lisa and Felix speaking in Korean without any background information about them, it seems like they have always been fluent in Korean. But if you look closer, you'll see they also had to start somewhere and had trouble along the way. So, even if Korean feels hard for you now, just keep listening and speaking. You'll get better, just like Lisa and Felix did! Keep pushing forward, everyone! So, that's it for today's video. I hope this video was entertaining and useful! And if you have any idols that you want me to talk about in our next video, please let me know in the comments! 감사합니다!

Channel: Talk To Me In Korean

Views: 50,128

Keywords: Learn Korean, TTMIK, Korean, 한국어, Korean lesson, How to learn Korean, easy Korean lesson, free Korean lesson, Korean grammar, Korean language, #KoreanIdols, #Kpop, #Kpopidols, #straykids, #blackpink

Id: ceczGxpn9aI

Length: 9min 23sec (563 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 09 2024