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 Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:31 pm
Well, since it is a Kpop guild forum, i thought this would be needed?
I'll offer some help... though my Korean might not be thattt strong.
If you know Korean, you can help out as well! 3nodding
Some basic stuff about Hangul...
Hangul is actually written in the form of phonetics, using an analogy...
An english syllable can be sort of summed up to be a Hangul character.
Characters comprise of several "alphabets", just like how a syllable is comprised of letters.
modified from learnkorean.net vvv
Vowels : -
ㅏ a
ㅑ ya
ㅓ eo [pronounced something like "uhh"]
ㅕ yeo
ㅗ o
ㅛ yo
ㅜ u [pronounced like "ooo"]
ㅠ yu
ㅡ eu
ㅣ i
Consonants : -
ㄱ g / k
ㅋ g' k'
ㄴ n
ㄷ d / t
ㅌ d' / t'
ㄹ r / l
ㅁ m
ㅂ b / p
ㅍ b' / p'
ㅅ s
ㅇ - [or when ending with this component, uses the "ng" sound]
ㅈ j /ch
ㅊ j' /ch'
ㅎ h
Note that " ' " means
the letter is aspirated, i.e a sharp sound.
Double Vowels:
ㅐ ae
ㅒ yae
ㅙ wae
ㅔ e [sounds like 'ere' in "here"]
ㅖ yere
ㅘ wa
ㅝ wo
ㅞ weo
ㅟ weou
ㅢ wei
If you're learning Korean for the first time, you might be exasperated. How do I learn all these so quickly!! Well, my friend who didn't learn Korean natively either taught me some tricks.
First, you look for patterns in the basic vowels.
Pattern #1
ㅏ is "a". But when you add a second stroke to the vowel... it becomes...ㅑ, which is "ya". The difference is the "y" added in front of the sound.
eg. ㅏand ㅑ
Pattern #2
ㅏㅜㅓㅗ
my friend said it reminded her of tetris.
remember that "a" would face to the right, and "eo" would face to the left.
"u" does not want to look like the english character "u", so it points downwards. "o" points upwards as a result.
Pattern #3
ㅡ ㅣ
group "eu" and "i" together. they sound similar. since ㅣ looks like "i", just let it be "i". As a result, the other (eu) would be ㅡ!
Pattern #4
For most of the double vowels, when there is an added ㅗ infront of the other vowel, it probably means to add a "w" sound in front.
eg. ㅏ and ㅘ
Consonants....
You can freely make up your own.
ㅅ looks like a human trying to urinate XD therefore the "sss" sound.
ㄷ looks like a "d" missing its |.
ㅁ looks like a tape over a person's mouth. therefore "mm"
ㄹ looks like a river's meander. roll and roll. "r".
ㅂ looks like your mouth when you pronounce "b".
it's up to you how you want to learn it actually. Just know you need to know how to read before you learn basics proper 3nodding
:]
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:22 am
ooh! thanks for posting this! I've always wanted to learn Korean.
I am going to move this to the off topic sub-forum
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i Y o s h i k o Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:10 am
okay ^^
welcome 3nodding glad to help~~
will update more soon~~
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:18 am
Oooh thanks! ^^
This was really helpful since I've been trying to teach myself Korean for the longest time but didn't know where to start. ^^
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Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:14 am
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:10 pm
What does it mean when ppl do this " ㅋㅋㅋㅋ?"
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 4:02 am
x_____Ushio-chan says:
Thank you so much for this thread. It's very useful. ^^
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:25 am
xX-SGy-Xx What does it mean when ppl do this " ㅋㅋㅋㅋ?" 
Its like laughing. That one makes a like K sound so, like chuckling.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:52 pm
i'll help.
i know korean really wel and fluently
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:33 pm
I have trouble reading and writing it. Its hard to relearn the keyboard too cry 안녕 took too long to type just that.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:36 pm
I've always wanted to learn Korean. Thank you^^. Maybe we should start off a little slower. We should just learn how to speak it then learn how to write it later.
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:34 pm
I've always wanted to learn Korean.
Thanks for posting.^^
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:15 pm
*is new to the guild*
I took a korean course this summer so I know basic words sentences, & questions~ ^^
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:17 am
Yes, maybe we should start with a bunch of vocab words. We should start with greetings, maybe?
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:36 pm
Wow! Thank you so much for posting this! I've been wanting to learn Korean for a while, but there are no classes offered in my area! Could someone post a pronunciation chart? As in, how to say each sound properly. I'm an English language speaker, with some training in Japanese, but my Korean sounds terrible (I think... sweatdrop )
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