You have now covered all the basic vowels. There are two more things you can learn about vowels, and then you know all vowels and everything about them. And these next two things are simple.
You will see vowels like ㅠ, ㅑ,ㅛ,ㅕ,ㅖ ,ㅒ etc. Notice how instead of one short line, there are two? This means that before the vowel sound, there is a y like sound. I will give two examples.
ㅠ
This sounds like saying “you” in English.
ㅑ
This sounds like saying “Ya” in English. All the teenagers should know it from the song Hey Ya! by Outkast. It played all the time.
All other vowels follow the same pattern.
Next, you will see vowels combined to form a new vowel sound, such as ㅘ, ㅝ, ㅢ, ㅟ.
You just run the vowels together into one sound. The vowel on the left (long horizontal line) comes first.
Here are a couple examples.
ㅘ
This sounds like “wa” in water.
ㅟ
This sounds just like the French “oui”. It is more or less like “wee”.
ㅢ
I have chosen to include this one for a special reason. It works just like the others, except if it comes after a consonant, you only hear ㅣand not the other part. It is just how it sounds when spoken. At the beginning of a syllable, you do run the two together however.
Speaking of mixing these with consonants. Let's just take a look at a couple and it will explain itself on how to write them.
봐
과
의
원
줘
The first consonant is written in the top left. Any consonant that comes after the vowel sound comes at the bottom.
You are now a master at vowels. You also know a few of the consonants in Korean as well. Let's finish up the rest of the consonants.
