Sunday 8 January 2012

Lesson 2 - Creating a Character/Syllable

There's only 5 ways you can form a character, and there's NEVER more than ONE vowel  in a character.
C = Consonant       V = Vowel




Example 닭 (Dalk)                       안(an)                                  녕(nyeong)




Special Consonants:   g/k*    r/l*   ng*  (How to know what letter it is when reading a character) 





Lesson 1 - Learning the Alphabet

Vowels                                                                Consonants  
아 =  a (pronounced as 'ah')                                 ㄱ = g/k *              
어 =  eo (pronounced as 'er')                                ㄴ = n                   
오 =  o (pronounced as 'oh')                                 ㄷ = d                   
우 =  u (pronounced as 'you')                               ㄹ = r/l *                 
으 = eu (pronounced as 'ugh')                              ㅁ = m                    
이 = i (pronounced as 'e')                                     ㅂ = b                   
에 = e (pronounced as 'air')                                  ㅅ = s                        
애 = ae (pronounced as 'air' aswell)                     ㅇ = ng *                  
의 = ui                                                                  ㅈ = j                           
 W + vowels                                                       ㅊ = ch             
와 = wa (pronounced as 'wah')                            ㅋ = k 
왜 = wae (pronounced as 'where')                       ㅌ = t 
워 = wo (pronounced as 'were')                           ㅍ = p  
Y + vowels                                                    ㅎ = h      
야 = ya (pronounced as 'yah')                              ㄲ = gg   
여 = yeo (pronounced as 'yer')                             ㄸ = dd 
요 = yo (pronounced as 'yo')                                ㅃ = bb   
유 = yu (pronounced as 'you')                              ㅆ = ss   
예 = ye (pronounced as 'yeah')                            ㅉ = jj   
얘 = yae(pronounced as 'yeah' aswell)


NOTE: Notice how Y + vowel is just an extra stroke of line? So if you memorise 아 = a .. and you see 야, because there's the extra line, you know straight away there's a 'y' infront of the vowel 
So y + a = ya (y + 아 = 야) 


(There is some vowels missing from the list above BUT they're not common in everyday Korean words that you'll use. Ill add them to later lessons ^^)