nooooppee!! also, dont be knocked off by other ‘carats’ that tease/ridicule you for not knowing fanchants! theres a lot of em these days. just sing along whenever you can!!

No, i never did and im a veteran carat. I know maybe one or two. But its no big dea if you don’t know. Some carats didn’t even do the fan chant and we just sang along, at least when I went.

Don’t stress just go and enjoy yourself.

fanchants arent as big a thing in the west, so no need to memorise! and there's a helpful post here for other first-timer concert tips! (esp for what to expect at an svt concent lol)

Oh LOL what are those mean Carats going to do, drag you to kpop jail? Don’t be silly, remember to enjoy the music in a way that makes YOU happy

i'm a fairly new carat but a long time kpop fan and i've never learned a fanchant. it's a korean tradition and it's fun, but as long as you're having fun, it's not required!

Recently, a lot of groups have been releasing a video of them performing the fan-chants pretty soon after the song is dropped. It's pretty cute. Monsta X - https://youtu.be/U1kXVyZG1gk Stray Kids - https://youtu.be/JX6NlILRPmE Seventeen - https://youtu.be/g_VW9mozh6I ect ect

In addition to groups publishing the fanchants on official sites/fan cafes and groups recording themselves doing the fanchants and uploading to Youtube, the fans themselves usually practice the fanchants while waiting outside the music show venue before pre-recording especially during the comeback week. I have experienced this myself where the fan manager encouraged us to practice before pre-recording.

sometimes yes, sometimes no. sometimes fans themselves will come up with the fanchant if the company/group doesn't so they learn it collectively wherever they gather.

In my experience with SHINee/SM the transcription of the fanchants (the song lyrics + the fanchants in a bright colour to differentiate them) is simply posted on their website and fans figure it out from there.

Most non-SM group probably post them on their fancafes. There may be different methods used by different groups/companies - I think I've heard of some newer groups posting videos teaching their fans.

In general, fanchants are designed to be easy to learn and to sound 'right' in the song. If you're in a crowd of fans who've learned the fanchants, it's pretty easy to follow along even if you practiced and/or are hearing them for the first time.

Bighit posts BTS fanchants on fancafe minutes after the release of the song/album

I will be using this one from Twitter. The newer releases have videos on Youtube.

I saw a video that before the show they will play the chants like this: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSAsPR4gN/ :) It's my first suju concert too so Im very excited!

I second /u/prime5119, you gotta learn Hangul. it's so much different than the romanization.

I watch lyric videos (covering the romanization part) at the slowest speed and even then I usually have to go line-for-line.

Listening to the song often and watching YouTube lyric videos and then giving it my best shot. Honestly though, whether or not a song is in my native languages, I usually end up only memorizing the chorus and/or key lines and humming the rest. If I know a song by heart, it happened naturally.

i listen to the song enough times that my mouth makes around about the same sound ��‍♀️

i learn the english words and the rest of the song goes "da da da da daaaa"

Colorcoded to understand the meaning and learn to read hangul.

It's really hard for kpop fans because we have to simultaneously be Main vocal Lead vocal Sub Vocal Adlib Rapper at the same time. If you're blessed in appearance you can be visual also but one thing for sure all of us are our own center.

That is learning Korean. You are asking how to learn Korean without learning Korean

I will add that the reason that the lyrics get translated as a whole sentence is because Korean grammar order is different than English grammar order. So if translated word by word, the order will seem very strange to an English speaker. Also there are implied words, and little to no use of pronouns. So I love you in English is 3 words and two pronouns. In Korean it’s one word. 싸랑해 (sarang hey) just the verb because the pronouns are implied. In English you might say “I went to school today with my friend”. But in Korean the word order would be more like. Today to school with my friend (implied I) went.

So what others are telling you is correct. You can’t shortcut it the way you’re imagining. You just have to learn it. But it really isn’t as hard as you think. If you have interest then just try. Learn the letters (Hangul) first… this really does only take an hour or so.

honestly, it sounds like you just want to learn korean. Learning a new language can be intimidating, but if you’re thinking about things like grammar then it’s essentially just wanting to learn the language. I may be biased, but korean really isn’t that difficult; you can learn the alphabet in like an hour. after that is just takes practice to sight read. it will be very difficult to be able to learn to translate even simple songs if you’re using romanization because of the way korean is conjugated and the syllable breakdown that cannot very accurately be reflected in romanization. a lot of words change their spelling depending on the tense or particle, which will be even more complicated to decipher in the roman alphabet. Korean is also phonetic and depends heavily on cadence and syllables so your pronunciation will likely not be very good or understandable if you’re using romanizations. if you watch k dramas or look at the translations to a lot of kpop songs, you should learn a bit of vocabulary and some sentence structure/grammar automatically. If you don’t want to formally learn korean, the best thing is to be curious and look up translations word by word if necessary and listen to a lot of spoken koreans That being said, the translations in videos or dramas usually aren’t direct translations, they just try and convey the same meaning across languages. i don’t think there’s an easy way or shortcut to learn, it does take work and there’s no one site or program that i know of that’ll translate things step by step accurately.

well honestly Korean is quite simple 😅 it's very logical, grammar and hangul are not hard. Just pay a little attention and use duolingo to make your practice easy. there are also a lot of bloggers who share some knowledge about Korean

Honestly, learning songs or anything with ROMANIZED words is a big mistake and so difficult. Since there are so many ways to romanise the language and half the time it doesn't sound how it's written. For that, you want to actually learn hangul. It is quite easy to learn and suggest giving it a try if you want!

Seventeen. My personal favourite is of Sumicha/Getting Closer.

https://acesse.one/RnI7N

For btob: Only one for me has melody split so half do the chorus rap and half do the vocals. Missing You has a fan chant that I can't listen to the song without hearing. Minhyuk' solo Tonight (with Melody) is writen to be performed with Melody singing. Pray (I'll be your man) is the first fan chant that they did a video for I think.

This is exo mma 2016 "monster fanchants" which is soo good, exols outrap Sehun and Chanyeol and i think you can also find idols reaction compilations to EXO's fanchants on youtube

EXO’s Growl. I saw Monsta X perform it at a fanmeet and you could literally hear on the videos Monbebes get tripped up halfway through chanting the EXO members’ names

g.o.d's Lies. Literally any crowd who hears this song live knows to sing the second voice in every line of the chorus, and also to shout "G! O! D! JJANG!" at the top of their lungs when the beat drops just before the big high note of the bridge. This is g.o.d performing it in 2023, a whole 23 years after the song was released. This is a performance of it by random people in I Can Hear Your Voice in 2016. 1:12 for the iconic chant. This one is a performance for SBS Gayo Daejun 2009 by g.o.d's Kim Taewoo, K.Will, 2PM's Junsu, and SHINee's Jonghyun. 1:06 for the chant. And this one is SHINee singing the song acapella back in 2016 with full second voice and fanchants.

I like UN Village fanchant the most! Its easy and makes the most sense

i love the call me baby fanchant. The part where everyone goes "E, X, O, LISTEN, WE, ARE, EX, O" so darn sick.

Kind of a basic choice I know, but I really like Obsession's fanchant. It suits the villain concept a lot, when fans are shouting the "I want you, I want you" in the beginning of the song. 

Growl's Exo K and Exo M. Brings back the nostalgia.

Absolutely the Mars fanchant created by Kyungsoo!!! It's super fun and cute, most notably the samgyeopsal line 😊

"Will be with you, Doh Kyungsoo!" "Best in the universe, Doh Kyungsoo!" "I can't forget you!" "Tonight's dinner is samgyeopsal!"

I'm half-korean and (mostly) fluent and I can't even sing most of the lyrics lol. Do not stress about it people reading this!!!

I've started learning the Korean alphabet, so I can phonetically read Korean kind of now.

It's perfectly fine. Even Andrew Choi, the Korean American singer for Jinu, made a mistake in a Korean line in the official recording version of Soda Pop lol.

I love how the template also features Thanos, who's played by T.O.P., a famous K-pop singer/rapper in his own right :). I wonder if he might actually do a cameo appearance in a sequel. Would be hilarious to see the "alternate Thanos" where he doesn't become a washout and remains a popular rockstar who occasionally crosses paths with Huntrix lol. Even funnier, both he and Rumi also have purple hair xD.

And yep, I agree with your point! ^^

Forgot to empathize "this weekend". lol

Learning from context is the absolute best way to make words and grammar points stick. I don't use songs for now, but these days I've been mining words from platforms like Ridibooks and Lezhin (for manhwa) and, although there are some that take longer to stick, I've been remembering most of them fairly easy.

I do the same with manhwa panels. As you said, it is very time consuming, but it works way better for me than graded readers, because it's what entertains me and motivates me the most. One page of a manhwa takes me between 3-6 hours (learning new vocab and, in particular, grammar points), but by the end I have a good grasp of everything I studied and weeks later I'm still able to remember and recognize them if I see them again in other panels.

I mostly use Anki cards with type-in answers. Writing the words makes them stick even better for me.

You have such perfect timing! I'm about to learn conjugation and vocabulary after learning the alphabet so this is really helpful, thank you!