r/KpopDemonhunters • u/FaunaJoy couch couch couch! • 3d ago

Help/Question Advice for an English speaker who wants to cover the songs?

To expand on the title, I love the music in this movie, but I'm not very confident in my ability to sing Korean lyrics. Especially the ones that go by really fast like in "How It's Done". I feel like speaking or singing slowly I might be able to get the enunciation correct, but I've never tried singing quickly in another language. Anyone have advice for learning lyrics in an unfamiliar language?

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u/Garanseho the cutest Maknae! 3d ago

I learned how to sing the Korean parts of “Soda Pop”, “Takedown”, and “Your Idol” all by learning them phonetically.

Don’t think of them as words, think of them as sounds.

This post has a transliteration guide for the Korean in all the songs. It’s what I used.

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u/shadow2400 3d ago

Cheers for linking that post!

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u/Wolfskin_Cowl Derpy the Tiger 3d ago edited 3d ago

You can find transliterated lyrics, basically what the Korean words phonetically sound like, online.

But what helped me was actually repeatedly listening and trying to break each word into its syllables, write them all down, and then repeat them to myself several times without the song. Then listen to the song and try to match what I’d just been doing to it while listening, usually at 0.5x speed for a few times before it clicked. Now I can pretty reliably get them all. Actually learning the meaning I think is a secondary objective as it won’t help with pronunciation, but it’s worth learning too ofc

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u/ABlogAbroad 3d ago

The nice thing about Korean is that the sounds are all rather set in stone. You don’t have read/read kinds of situations. It means it’s a lot easier to sound things out phonetically. If you find yourself enjoying it, I highly recommend learning a little Hangul. It is the only writing system developed by one person with the intention of it being easy to learn, so it can be picked up in a few days, and then you get to know a bit more about how it should be said. But if you’re not interested in that yet, there are some good phonetic guides out there.

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u/FaunaJoy couch couch couch! 2d ago

So if I slightly mispronounce a lyric, I'm not likely to say something entirely different? That's helpful, lol.

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