what i was learning today~ korean consonants + vowels (lesson 1)
Today - 23 May 2014
i did my first proper lesson of Korean and i learnt all about the vowel and consonant.
In Korean the consonant is always pronounced in combination with a wovel, and there are 3 typed types of consonant-
Plain consonants - ㄱ,ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ,ㅅ,ㅇ,ㅈ
Aspirated consonants - ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅍ,ㅊ,ㅎ
Glottalized consonants - ㄲ,ㄸ,ㅃ,ㅆ,ㅉ
Hangul consists of 40 letters. It has 21 vowels and 19 consonants; among these 40 letters, 24 are the basic letters while the other 16 are compounds formed from the basic letters.
(From this i was able to remember that -
2 types of wovel vowel
3 types of consonant)
When you write a vowel which does not have syllable consonant, you must write the consonant 'ㅇ'. In this case, 'ㅇ' is a null consonant which i now know indicates the absence of a syllable consonant (the ones you pronounce)
There is are also 2 types of vowel-
Simple vowel - ㅏ,ㅓ,ㅗ,ㅜ,ㅡ,ㅣ,ㅐ,ㅔ
Diphthongs - ㅑ,ㅕ,ㅛ,ㅠ,ㅖ,ㅒ,ㅘ,ㅙ,ㅝ,ㅞ,ㅚ,ㅟ,ㅢ
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Today i focused on sounding out the consonants when put together with the simple vowel "ㅏ"
this is what i did -
가 까
나 싸
다 빠
라 찌
마 끼
바
사
아
자
All looking good! I think the mistakes I corrected were mostly likely typos, rather than anything else - don't forget that 'I' is always capitalised in English though :)