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The Korean alphabet is easy.
Pronunciation is a bitch.
You need to practice with a Korean native to getthe basic consonants and vowels down.
This link here is a great resource which also
includes video and audio for each lip movement.But unless you learn the following rules forhow
you should pronounce two consonants which are
found together, pronunciation will seem muchmore mysterious than it needs to be.
Some of these rules, you may have seen. Some
of them, you have not!
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You have to know that there are only 7
sounds with which a word can end, the others all
resolve to one of the following seven. That is tosay, there are only 7 ending consonant sounds
possible in Korean:
:,,
:,,
:,
::,
:
:
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Those are the most common. there are other sounds, all
of which must resolve themselves down to those seven.
Here are the not so common:
:,
:
=> [
] (see below for the reason for this ):, => [], []
:
:,
::
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Korean doesn't like to mix certainfinal vowels with certain beginning
vowels, so it came up with some
rules to try and make things
"clearer".
these are some of the rules I havelearned or come across:
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(hardening of the sound) also
called ........ this is aboutand and they are grouped together
here. (should they be?)
',' '-
(-)' '- -', ','
','(1) ','.(,.)
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translation:
+ -> + ->
but the and the are still written and
even though they are pronounced asand.
source: www.korean.go.krThe pronunciation is the right side,the
written form is the left side of the following.
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+ ->
+ ->
[]
[]
[]
[]
[]
source:
http://www.indiana.edu/~korean/K101/Pron_
rules.htm l
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+ -->
examples:
[]
[]
[]
+ -->
->
+ --> +
example:=>
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[]the disappearing
[] () []
->
->
->
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[]
[]
[] []
[]
[]
[]
[]
->
+ -> + ->
->
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is the doubling-up of theconsonants depending on the
consonants/vowels which
precede them.
For example, -> and ->
and so on.
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''
., '
-,-',
.
'',
().
,
()
.
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: ?: ?
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(head sound)
When "" or "" comes at the begining of a word it
changes to "" or"o".
Example: ->
->
->
->
this applies to both reading and writing
is an exception to this rule, as it's not written.
But, i don't know how they say RADIO then...
note also that after a '' if there is a as in '', ''
then these are written as '', ''.
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I'd like to clarify when we use some of each of the three
consonant types.
1.(:) + (:)
for example, when or is followed by a consonant, the second
consonant is turned into ( => ), .
()
[] :
.[] : .
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2. sometimes is used for no
particular reason.
''.
(315, you
know)
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mint
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native korean # Posted: 16 Dec 2006 18:22 KST - Edited by: mint
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I'd like to clarify when we use some of each of the three consonant types.
1.(:) + (:)
for example, when or is followed by a consonant, the second consonant is turned into ( => )
, . ()[] : .[] : .
2. sometimes is used for no particular reason.
''.(315, you know)
3., , , , , , , , ().
, '' ''(aspiration,, , , , )(,)
.
I reedited a little this post.Please point out my mistakes in English anytime. Thank you.
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1.
(:) + (:)
means changing sound
the sound changes into another, whatever an is.
for example,
, . (
)
remember is the doubling of the consonant depending on what hadpreceded it.
is a kind of because there is a changing in the sound.
happens when a consonant follows or
[] :
.
[] :
.
here mint gives two examples of: -> and ->
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2.
'
'.
(315, youknow)
there are also times when we use
even when it doesn't have to
happen.
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3., , , ,
, , , , (
).
is just the first consonant,non-doubled.
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mint
Posts: 269
native korean # Posted: 17 Dec 2006 15:52 KSTQuote ... Re-Sideview ... ([i]head sound)
For more information,
(),
or .
.
.
radio rhythm Linux
news New York nickname()Please point out
my mistakes in English anytime. Thank you.
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is pronounced but I don'tknow the rule.
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