No, I thought at Hobi is Jang Hoseok not Chiong/Ciong Huseok, and at Jk ,Jean Jeongkuk not Cheon/ceon chiongguk/ceongguk, at Jimin i thought is Park Jimin not Pak cimin(chimin) and at Jin i thought is Kim Seokjin not Kim Seokchin/Seokcin 🤦 and i am a army for 2 years
My situation was even worse I thought his name was Park and his last name was Jimin and he just decided to use his last name as his stage name I am such a crackhead
Just a little fun fact, “maknae” is actually how it is written in Korean (character by character) but in Korea they use something called consonant assimilation which changes it to “mangnae” to make it easier to pronounce as the sound ng is easier than k :) (btw im learning Korean so that is how I know lol 💜💜)
Kim Namjoon Kim Seokjin Min yoongi Jung hoseok Park Jimin Kim Taehyung Jeon Jungkook Bangtan Sonyeondan I know how to pronounce their names by fan chants lol
@@shirnell1 oh, thanks, also i don't know how we should pronounce Hobi name, Jk name, also "kim" we should pronounce "Gim" "Ghim" "Kghim" or what? Jin and Jimin it's Gin, Gimin, or Cin and Cimin?
@@Marina-mg8ry I think most ppl says Jimin's name right "ji-min" just like Kim, Jin etc. And concerning, Hobi, JK & Jin, I think most ppl say their names right already seeing how the letters are pronounced the same in english translation. Its just for Jimin's name tht most ppl might pronounce it as "pak" instead of "bak" bc of the "p" pronunciation in english. But I think the vid is pretty accurate with how to say their name properly :)
This all makes a lot more sense when you are familiar with the Korean alphabet. I struggled with learning their names when I first became an ARMY because I wanted to pronounce their Korean names correctly, but then I started learning Korean which helped it make more sensr
I am not a fan of BTS but was curious about how to pronounce some Korean names, and this video was super cool. It finally clicked for me why there felt like such a discrepancy between how romanized Korean is written versus how it's pronounced. Also, I am very glad to finally learn how to pronounce "Park" correctly.
I also noticed they call themselves by nicknames: ..."Jimin-aah" "Hoba" "JoenGugaa" "Tae-hyung-shi" ... can you please also make a video how do they exactly pronounce their nicknames in Korean? Many thanks for this one, its great to know 💜
They most of the times add "-ah" or "-ie" at the end of the names so their words slides off smoothly in a sentence. Especially if it ends on a consonant. And the "-ssi" is used for honorifics. They add it so they can still sound formal no matter what's the age of the person you're talking to.
@@listentoday6 Yes it really sounds so cute with "ah" or "ie" at the end, I like it very much when I hear it sometimes, but they say it so quickly, it would be great to hear it a bit slower like in this video. Thank you very much for the explanation when they use it 😉👍
씨 (SSI) is basically like Mrs/Miss it's what you use at the end of someones name when your not close to them so when JK calls Jimin Jimin-ssi he's just trying to be funny and when they say Jiminah its how you way of call out someones name from a distance you don't just yell their be like you would speaking English
Clicked so fast. Saw Korean unnie and BTS! Both are awesome and inspired me to start my own RU-vid channel. Still new. Already knew the names but thanks for the video! :))
My one year anniversary of being an ARMY is coming up soon, and this was one of the first videos I watched when I started stanning BTS! Now I know how to pronounce our kings names perfectly!!! Big thanks to Korean Unnie for helping me!!! Borahae!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
3:58 omg I just realized this is the whole bts chant in order right there lolllll thanks so much for the Pronounciations so us non- Korean armies won't botch it up lol
Korea Now, excellent idea!! And you've given the assignment to the best person for the job, Korean Unnie, Moon So-hyun, who is a great and real teacher! Unnie could make this kind of video about a wide scope of names. Is it important to use a hyphen? What is better, So-hyun or Sohyun? Do people think much about the meaning of their names? Does every name mean something?
If you can read the Korean name correctly, the hyphen is not necessary. It helps to distinguish each single Korean letter. Most Korean people has one letter for last name(김,Kim) and two letters for first name(남준,nam jun or nam joon). Each letter has a different meaning. We write 김남준 in Korean. So hyphen is only used in English. We don't have middle name. But if we write Nam Joon Kim, Than foreigners may think Joon is the middle name. So we put it together like Namjoon Kim. How Kind 😆😋. (I'm not good at English. So please excuse my writing)
@@camelliadandelion Thank you a lot for explaining and for clearing up the doubt! 👍👍 Your English seems great! A question regarding the order, if it's OK - So, in Korean it must be written only as 김남준, not 남준김. But in English we can use both Nam(-)joon Kim and Kim Nam(-)joon, right?
@@danijeld8669 yes, only 김남준 in Korean. But most people use 'Namjoon Kim' in a foreign country 'cos most foreigners don't know that Koreans put the family name first. 'Kim namjoon' also can be used under certain circumstances🙂💜
I'm not Korean myself but I found and watched a video on youtube where they explained the meaning of the names of the BTS' members (ye, I'm an army lol what a surprise). There they said that Koreans really value the meaning of their names and take it really seriously when they have to choose the name of their soon-to-be-born child, since they believe that the meaning of your name will determine the kind of person you will become in the future. You can discover the meaning of a korean name by using hanja (chinese characters). Some names though come directly from the korean language like idk Sarang (사랑= love), Haneul (하늘= sky), Bom (봄= Spring) so Hanja is not needed, some names are western ones but koreanized like 수지 (Suzy). Idk why I got too excited about this lol. There are even people who do "name creators" for a living!! I found it really fascinating. Let's take a look at Jungkook's name (the only name I can remember the meaning of. The others were too difficult for my poor korean skills) means "to be a pillar/tree of the nation". Apparently 정 (Jung) meaning something like pillar/tree and 국 (kook) meaning country. I'll put the link here if I find it. It's really fascinating!!!! My aunt is Korean and during a family gathering we had fun choosing our korean names while trying to keep the roots of our original name. Mine is Kim Se Rin (김세린) lol. "Se" because my name is Sheena so we kept the S. "Rin" comes from my second name "MauReen". "Se" means "generation, age, world" and "Rin" means "female unicorn". Soo I guess it means "the female unicorn of the generation/of the world" (????) LMAO. I've always had a certain obsession with unicorns since my childhood and now that I think about it it's quite fitted lol.
Awesome, I knew it that I have been pronouncing it their name all wrong 😔, thanks I need to now practice 1000 times more than probably I will be ready for the fan chant 😆
I'm new ARMY and I watched this video soooo many times until I could say all their names correctly! Thank you so much, this was by far the most helpful way to learn their names, and I also loved the other little facts about Korea (such as "maknae"!).
I needed this because I was writing an essay about Bts for school and had to read it out loud but I didn't know how to pronouce their names but thankfully now I do!
Thanks a lot. I loved it. I'll see this video a hundred times because for me is like impossible to learn they names. This is perfect. I really appreciate your job.
I taught myself the korean alphabet and how to read the Hangul characters a long time ago. Since then, til now. I never use romanization to help me pronounce korean names or in general korean words. Learning to read the Hangul characters helped me to not use romanization at all. I speak Spanish fluently. It was my first language. And in Spanish we have the same vowel pronunciation like in Hangul. So my Spanish helped me with pronouncing some korean. I don’t rely on that tho cause they are both completely different languages. But it helped with how to pronounce the basic characters. The way she is pronouncing their names. Is exactly the way I’ve been pronouncing their names for a long time now ☺️ I don’t pronounce it any other way because this is what I’m use too pronouncing them like.
