[Hangeul] Pronunciation change 3

This pronunciation change is about ‘ㅎ’.  In Korean, there are lots of changes with this letter ‘ㅎ’. When ‘ㅎ’ meets ‘ㅅ’, the pronunciation changes to ‘ㅆ’.  And when ‘ㅎ’ meets ‘ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅂ,ㅈ’, the pronunciations change to ‘ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅍ,ㅊ’ .

 

1. ㅎ(final consonant) + ㅅ => ㅆ

 

2. ㅎ(final consonant) + ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅂ,ㅈ => ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅍ,ㅊ

 

3. ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅂ,ㅈ(final consonant) + ㅎ =>ㅋ,ㅌ,ㅍ,ㅊ

e.g)

You can listen to the pronunciation here.

 

[Hangeul] Pronunciation change 2

In previous pronunciation change post, I said there are more changes, right?  Here is the second one.

When final consonants ㄱ(ㄲ,ㅋ),ㄷ(ㅌ,ㅅ,ㅆ,ㅈ,ㅊ),ㅂ(ㅍ) meet ‘ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅂ,ㅅ,ㅈ‘,
‘ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅂ,ㅅ,ㅈ’ sound change to ‘ㄲ,ㄸ,ㅃ,ㅆ,ㅉ‘.

 

For example,

 

You can also listen to the pronunciation here.

If you don’t know how to read final consonants, you can click here to learn.

 

 

[Hangeul] Pronunciation changes 1

의 : [의], [이], [에]

 

‘의’ is very tricky one.

(1) [의] – When ‘의’ is in the first letter, we read this as the original sound [의].
e.g) 의사, 의자

(2) [이] – When it takes place at the second letter, we read this as [이].
e,g) 회의, 주의

(3) [에] – When it means ‘of’ in English which takes place between two nouns, we read this as [에].         e.g) 선생님의 딸[선생님에 딸 -> 선생니메 딸], 컵의 모양[컵에 모양 -> 커베 모양

 

You can listen to the pronunciation here.

[Voca] Korean vocabulary 1

The vocabulary with ㄴ, ㅁ, ㄹ.  You can repeat after me!

Th Vocabulary in the video>>

아이	children
오이	cucumber
너무	too
어머니	mother
나무	tree
노래	song
나라	country
누나	older sister or older woman for a man
머리	head
오리	duck
우리	we, our, us