Study Korean Language

ΩLesson 2: Page 9

As I said earlier, in one way, those new letters are very simple, because they are just building on the letters in which you already know. On the other hand, they add confusion because the new letters sound very similar to the previous ones.

All of the new letters can form syllables just like the letters you learned in Lesson 1. For example:

ㄸ = dd
ㅏ = a
ㅇ = ng
ㅏ is vertically aligned, so if we make a syllable we would write: 땅 (ddang)

ㅌ = t
ㅗ = o
ㅇ = ng
ㅗ is horizontally aligned, so if we make a syllable we would write: 통

Hopefully you aren't too confused, because there are still some more letters that you need to know. In the next lesson, you will learn the final letters that you will need to know before studying real words and sentences. I suggest now that you try to make as many "blocks" as possible with the new letters that you learned. Before moving on to the next lesson, you should be able to:

Recognize the new consonants that were taughtBe able to make syllables by putting together formations of vowels and new consonants.