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Vowels and Consonants: How to Write and Pronounce 101

안년,에밀리 here with the official first lesson of Emily's Hangul School 101.

At first, you might think the alphabet and pronunciation system is a piece of cake to memorize, but think again. Before getting into the lesson, don't say I didn't warn you about your brain getting tangled as this work continues on.

Here goes......

Consonants

한글 has 11 basic consonants, including the so-called fake consonant ㅇ. The pronunciation for each consonant sounds similar when you pronounce it in English.

Note: Unlike English, the letter F and Z don't exist in this system, so F is pronounced as P and Z are pronounced as J.

The letters that are underlined and in bold are how you should pronounce it in Korean as you would in English.

ㄱ as in gun
ㄴ as in need
ㄷ as in door
*ㄹ r/l
ㅁ as in moon
ㅂ as in bear
ㅅ as in sad
ㅈ as in joy
ㅍ as in park
ㅎ as in hear

*You might notice many Korean lessons might teach you to pronounce ㄹ as in run. Unfortunately, they are wrong to pronounce ㄹ neither way.

How to correctly pronounce ㄹ

1. Your tongue should touch the ceiling of your mouth, instead of the back of your front teeth.
2. Move your tongue downwards as you pronounce ㄹ like in the word love.
3. Congratulations! You did it!

The Fake Consonant ㅇ

Unlike English and other languages, Hangul has a consonant that doesn't make any sound at all. English words mostly start with a vowel, like apple. This system, however, is designed to support a consonant, so you must add a fake consonant ㅇbefore a vowel.

Let's say you want to write BAAAA in Korean. It should be written like this: 바아아아, not 바ㅏㅏㅏ.

Consonants that consists of more than one stroke

When a consonant is written with more than one stroke based on basic consonants, the pronunciation comes out stronger.

ㅋ as in cake
ㅌ as in talk
ㅍ as in pass
ㅊ as in change

Basic Vowels

Vowels in this alphabetic system are quite confusing since the writing looks so similar to each other. I will try my best to make it as easy as I can for my dear lovelies to understand, so please bear with me.

ㅣas in tree
ㅏas in father
ㅑas in see ya
ㅓas in up
ㅕas in yup
ㅡ as in station *no vowel*
ㅗ as in open
ㅛ as in yogurt
ㅜ as in root
ㅠ as in youth

끝 of Vowels and Consonants: How to Write and Pronounce 101

I hope this first lesson isn't as complicated as you have thought. Feel free to post any questions on my works.

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The next lesson will be "Vowels 101: How to Differentiate Vowels".