Felix even tried to hide his name when he first came to korea, but the other jyp trainees discovered quickly because his entire name was written somewhere and they where like "WHO IS THAT"
Clicked into this video thinking "How is this video 23 minutes?!" Love how you really broke this down and brought up the differences between the English and Korean speaking mannerisms.
For me the easiest way to know how to actually pronounce a Korean name in a Korean manner is checking how their names are written in hangul. Like with Hyunjin, for example. In English it's Hwang Hyunjin, but in hangul it's spelled as Hwang Hyeon-jin, so I'd pronounced it as that.
I think that these pronunciation problems are especially common among native English speakers, because in many other languages the pronunciation of the various vowels is the same for everyone, like "a=a e=e i=i".
👍 I'm French, so I'm facing different issues with pronunciation, but your way of teaching makes everything clear. (And please never teach Hyunjin how to pronounce lasagna, his way of saying it is so cute🫠)
9:40 I’m also realizing while looking at the page that the hanja for the 이 family name, at least in Lee Know’s case, is 李, which in mandarin chinese is actually pronounced “lǐ” (written in pinyin), so that could also play a role in how “이” has ended up romanized/translated as “Lee”
Brit here - there’s no difference between how we’d pronounce No and Know :-) And the way we say the a in Han, bang and chang isn’t quite as far from the Korean as it is in American English but it’s good to hear it broken down.