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Season 2 is being written.
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A few letters from earlier days. Ten seconds each.
Hangul stacks letters into a block. Three letters, one syllable, one word.
The final ㄷ is unreleased. Don't pop it like an English 't'.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
Which sound does ㄷ make at the end?
ㅇ has two faces. Silent at the start, [ŋ] at the bottom.
Reading the first ㅇ as [o] is the most common mistake.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
What sound does ㅇ make at the START of a block?
ㄹ is neither English r nor l. Tap the tongue tip once, lightly.
English speakers over-roll ㄹ. It's closer to the soft Spanish r.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㄹ is closest to which sound?
Add 해 to a noun and it becomes a sentence. 사랑 plus 해.
ㅐ and ㅔ have all but merged. Both are close to [e].
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
사랑 + 해 means?
ㅊ is ㅈ with a puff of air. Hold your palm up and you'll feel it.
Mixing up ㅈ and ㅊ often produces a different word.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
Which one has the puff of air?
Add a puff of air to ㄷ and you get ㅌ. The same rule as ㅊ in 김치.
The final ㄱ is unreleased too, just like ㄷ. The sound stops in the throat.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㅌ is which letter, plus a puff of air?
You just read a word you already knew. ㅋ is ㄱ plus air; ㅍ is ㅂ plus air.
Don't round your lips on ㅓ. The spelling 'eo' misleads — it's closer to the u in 'cup'.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㅍ is which letter, plus a puff of air?
ㅡ is made with flat lips and the tongue pulled back. Loanwords are full of it.
Reading ㅡ as ㅜ gives a different word. Never round your lips.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
What do your lips do for ㅡ?
One extra short stroke adds a 'y' sound. ㅗ→ㅛ, ㅏ→ㅑ. The system starts to show.
Both blocks open with ㅇ, and both are silent — exactly as in 안녕.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
What does the extra short stroke add?
Add a stroke to ㅜ and you get ㅠ. That is all ten basic vowels. Season 1 done.
우유 has no consonant sound at all — four letters, all vowels and silent ㅇ.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㅠ is ㅜ plus what?
Doubling a letter makes it tense. Two ㅂ give you ㅃ.
Telling ㅂ, ㅍ and ㅃ apart is the hardest thing here. ㅃ has no puff — the throat is tight.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
How is ㅃ made?
At the bottom, even ㅊ becomes a ㄷ sound. 꽃 is read [kkot].
As a final, ㅅ ㅆ ㅈ ㅊ ㅌ all sound like ㄷ. This is where spelling and sound first part ways.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
What does a final ㅊ sound like?
Two ㄷ make ㄸ. Tongue in place, throat tight, then release.
After a final ㄹ, the following ㄱ stays clear. 딸-기, two distinct beats.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㄸ is which letter, doubled?
Two ㅅ make ㅆ. Sharper hiss, shorter burst.
사요 and 싸요 mean different things. Slur the tense sound and you say something else.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
What separates 싸요 from 사요?
That is all five tense letters: ㄲ ㄸ ㅃ ㅆ ㅉ. One rule — double the letter.
찌개 is not 치개. ㅉ has no puff of air; ㅊ does.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
What rule makes the five tense letters?
Add a vertical line to ㅓ and you get ㅔ; to ㅕ, ㅖ. The short stroke still means 'y'.
ㅐ and ㅔ sound nearly identical today. Don't try to hear the difference — learn the spelling per word.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
In ㅖ, what makes the 'y'?
Write ㅗ and ㅏ side by side and you get ㅘ. Compound vowels are exactly what they look like.
Don't break ㅘ into two beats. It glides in one.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㅘ is which two vowels?
ㅗ plus ㅐ gives ㅙ. Both blocks here open with the silent ㅇ.
ㅙ, ㅚ and ㅞ sound nearly the same today. Memorising the spelling per word is faster.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㅙ is which two vowels?
ㅗ+ㅣ is ㅚ, ㅡ+ㅣ is ㅢ. The last two vowels of the set.
의 shifts between [ui], [i] and [e] depending on position. In 회의 the second block is close to [i].
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㅢ is which two vowels?
ㅜ+ㅣ is ㅟ, ㅜ+ㅓ is ㅝ. End of Season 2 — there is almost nothing left you cannot read.
Don't stretch 쉬워요 into [su-i-wo-yo]. Three beats: 쉬 · 워 · 요.
Answer correctly and the next card opens.
ㅝ is which two vowels?
यो भाषा अहिले समीक्षा गरिएको छैन।
कोरियाको चारहरू र व्याख्याहरू यन्त्रद्वारा अनुवाद गरिएको छ र यसलाई एक मूल भाषाकर्ताले जाँच गरिएको छैन। केहि विचित्र भएको छ र केहि भूल छ। कोरियाको स्वयं अपरिवर्तित छ।
यदि तपाईं एक भूल अनुवाद फेला पार्नु भएको छ भने हामीलाई जानकारी दिनुहोस्। यो यसरी ठीक भएको छ।