Make sure you've memorized the sets of letters I've provided before continuing to work through this chapter!
Our Place holder letter, aka NG sound
ㅇ
This letter "ㅇ" can be seen as a "ng" or a place holder.
Here I'll show you:
In the word bang:
방 - the circle at the bottom represents "ng"
(The "circle" at the bottom, as well as all the letters in any alphabet, is known as a character)
In the word an:
안 - the ㅇ character isn't pronounced at all, it's silent and is simply there as a place holder.
I hope you now roughly understand ㅇ *^~^*
The letter ㄲ and ㅋ:
ㄲ or ㅋ
They both sound similar to the normal ㄱ, which is G/K in the English alphabet. They are more forced than the ㄱ we know and is said stronger than ㄱ alone.
The letter P:
Everyone always asks me the same question. How can you tell the difference between B and P in Korean?
I say you should listen to the Korean speaker and see how much force they put onto the B or P to distinguish which one it actually is, it'll help you a lot.
So you should know by now that the letter ㅂ in the Korean alphabet , is P in the English alphabet.
ㅃ, is a more forced way of saying ㅂ, just like ㄱ and ㄲ.
The letter for P in the Korean alphabet is, ㅍ.
The letter ㅅ, is S in English, right?
So ㅆ, is SS in English?
Yeah, so exactly like ㅃ and ㄲ,
ㅆ is more forced than a normal ㅅ.
CH in chat is also a new letter.
It's written like this:
ㅊ
ㄸ in English is, DD, meaning that it's pronounced more strongly than the single ㄷ.
The same goes for ㅈ, and ㅉ. The double ㅉ, is said stronger than the singular ㅈ.
I hope this lesson hasn't confused you too much!
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Please let me know!
~EDITED~
9/28/2017
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