Welcome back, my children.
Today we're gonna be learning K!
Or ㅋ.
K = ㅋ
So in English, K is pronounced like "KAY". It's a very harsh kinda pronunciation unlike Korean.
ㅋ isn't 'soft' but it sure as hell isn't "KAY". It's more like "Kuh" like in "Kuhome over". But it can also be pronounced like "Koh" like in Kohrean.
When pronouncing "Kuh", your mouth should be a little bit open, like you have an underbite or something.
But when pronouncing "Koh", your mouth should be in the form of a whistle of some sort.
The saying for ㅋ is that ㅋ looks a little bit like a Key, right? Key?
ㅋ is never going to be the middle letter.
칵 and 앜 are great examples.
But ㅇ and ㅋ would never go together.
Look. ㅇㅋ.
It doesn't even try to form a word.I recently had a question about ㅇ.
ㅇ is a placeholder. For example, Wrangle. That W is not needed.
But is wrangle was spelled like Rangle. It wouldn't have the same meaning, therefore it would be incorrect.
It's the same thing in Korean.
악 and ㅏㄱ are two completely different things. The latter isn't even considered a word and would just be some accidental chicken scratch. To me, ㅇ is one of the most important letters.
I'm not going to get too into it, but I will be mentioning it briefly until I do the letter.
ㅇ basically just ensures that the placement of the word is correct.
For example, 답 doesn't use ㅇ because there's already a starting letter, so there's no room for ㅇ because, of course, you can't have two starting letters.
But in ㅏㄱ, there isn't a starting letter, so you've got to add one without changing the meaning or the spelling of the word.
악
Pretty easy, right?
If not, I will be making a chapter on it very, very soon, so do NOT worry.
Hab a gud dae!!!
I lobeu joo!
Bai bai!
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