Learn Korean (eng) (grammar & voc)

The "Alphabet"

Okay so first of all I'll teach you how to read..it is really important to you to know how do the letters sound and if they are vowels or consonants , I'll explain the rules of writting in the next "lesson", for now just try to memorize them
so LET'S GO!!

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Vowels

ㅏ - a like the "a" in the word "father"
ㅓ - eo like the "aw" in the word "saw"
ㅗ - o like the "o" in the word "home"
ㅜ - u like the "oo" in the word "moon"
ㅡ - eu like the "u" in the word "put"
ㅣ - i like the "ee" in the word "meet"
ㅑ - ya
ㅕ - yeo
ㅛ - yo
ㅠ - yu
ㅔ - e like the "e" in the word "set"
ㅐ - ae like the "a" in the word "hand"
ㅘ - wa
ㅝ - wo
ㅟ - wi
ㅢ - ui
ㅖ- ye
ㅒ - yae
ㅚ - oe like the "we" in the word "wet"
ㅙ - wae
ㅞ - we

the vowels that don't have the explanation of 'how to read' you read as you would read of it was English or for example in "ㅕ" you read the y + eo (with the 'saw' sound). The same for the other ones like : ㅛ,ㅠ,ㅖ, ㅒ, ㅙ

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Consonants

ㄱ - g / k  
ㄴ - n
ㄷ - d / t    - (t usually for numbers)
ㄹ - r / l     -  i actually don't know how to explain it, it's like a sound between r and l, like saying r but l at the same time
ㅁ - m
ㅂ - b /p
ㅅ - s
ㅈ - j
ㅊ - ch     (really similar to j)
ㅋ - k       (a little stronger than "ㄱ")
ㅌ - t       (stroger)
ㅍ - p      (also stonger)
ㅎ - h
ㄲ - kk         (similar to ㄱ but it is forced at the beginning)
ㄸ - tt          (similar to ㄷ but it is more forced in the beginning)
ㅃ - pp        (similar to ㅂ but it's more forced at the beginning)
ㅆ - ss        (same as the others)
ㅉ - jj         (same as the others )
ㅇ - ng    at the end of a syllable (ex: 방 ((bang))
        silent at the beggining of a syllable (ex:    안 ((an)) it has no sound)

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this might sound confusing right now...I'll explain it next.....