# Posted: 15 Nov 2006 11:31 KST - Edited by: jcs
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Korean Vowels and Consonants 한글의 자모
Hangeul 한글, the Korean alphabet consists of forty letters. Listen to them here and practice first, then come back and read this.
then, click here to practic all the hangul with learning basic vocabulary
Here is also another practice site which is interactive and has sound.
then, come back here and read the academic stuff.
Twenty-one of these represent vowels (including thirteen diphthongs), and nineteen represent consonants. Twenty-four are basic, while the others are compounds of the basic letters.
I love the fact that it doesn’t treat me like an absolute idiot that couldn’t spend the hour it took to learn 한글, so there’s not a bit of romanization (thank GOD~!!).
source: Let"s Learn Korean blogs
So, is learning hangul the korean writing system really that easy?
To answer, let"s first look at how it looks (the korean names which you don"t need to know for them are also listed):| ㄱ(기 역) | ㄴ(니 은) | ㄷ(디 귿) | ㄹ(리 을) | ㅁ(미음) | | ㅂ(비 읍) | ㅅ(시 옷) | ㅇ(이 응) | ㅈ(지 읒) | ㅊ(치 읓) |
| ㅋ(키 읔) | ㅌ(티 읕) | ㅍ(피 읖) | ㅎ(히 읗) | | | ㅏ(아) | ㅑ(야) | ㅓ(어) | ㅕ(여) | ㅗ(오) | | ㅛ(요) | ㅜ(우) | ㅠ(유) | ㅡ(으) | ㅣ(이 ) |
The names for 된소리 which means a doubling of the consonants are as follows:
ㄲ(쌍기역) ㄸ(쌍디귿) ㅃ(쌍비읍) ㅆ(쌍시옷) ㅉ(쌍지읒)
breakdown into vowels and consonants
There are 21 Vowels in korean that"s called 모음(홀소리)
ㅏ ㅓ ㅗ ㅜ ㅡ ㅣ ㅐ ㅔ
ㅑ ㅕ ㅛ ㅠ ㅒ ㅖ
ㅘ ㅙ ㅝ ㅞ ㅚ ㅟ ㅢ
Here is a flash file for practicing these vowels and their pronunciations
there are 19 Consonants. 닿소리 is what they call their consonants. They are divided into 3 kinds:
1) The basic ones are called 예사소리
ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ ㄹ ㅁ ㅂ ㅅ ㅇ ㅈ ㅎ
2) Then there are ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ are called 거센소리 (thanks mint!)
ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ
When you make those sounds you exhale or puff like when you make the P sound in English.
3) and the combination ones are called 된소리
ㄲ ㄸ ㅃ ㅆ ㅉ
Now, you have to practice. The best site I know of for hangul learning is right here.
Here is a pronunciation guide to adjoining consonants
Here is a writing guide like stroke direction that kind of stuff.
Here is a pronunciation guide with sound clips and even videos which show the lip positions when you go and make the sounds
Don"t worry, as a foreigner, the pronunciation of those will take you a lifetime. some people say they can hear the difference, but many Korean people themselves can"t so don"t lose any sleep!
So, my conclusion, is that the alphabet is easy. It"s hard to pronounce correctly. However, it"s not hard to remember which is the p sound and which is the d sound and which vowel is A sound and which is i sound generally pretty easily. However, you have to practice reading with a korean to learn the pronunciation, and I could never imagine a foreigner saying Korean pronunciation is easy
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