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Ah yes, the very delayed second part (lesson) continuing my Hangul for beginners blog.
If you haven't read it yet and want to learn hangul, make sure you read that one first, or you'll be very confused.
Lesson 1: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=216358
Again you aren't going to be fluent after reading this. But you will develop a slightly better understanding of Korean writing/reading.
I'm going to have parts where you can attempt to write them on your own. I won't teach you stroke order, but I find that if you have the chance to try writing yourself, you can memorize things A LOT easier. If you don't have a pen/pencil paper, try to write it your head, or just with a finger on your hand.
Now to review, you should already know a bunch of letters:
ㅈㅣㅏㅎ ㅇ
+ Show Spoiler [If you forgot] +j, ee, ah, h, ng or placeholder
It's kind of hard for me to pick which letters should be learned next, because there's quite of bit of exceptions for the sounds of different letters, but I'll stick to the generalities.
The next letter you'll be able to add to your repertoire is ㄴ
It looks kind of like an L, but don't let that confuse you. It makes the n sound.
So 나 would sound like?
+ Show Spoiler [Check your answer] +
Trying to compliment consonants with vowels, we'll learn some more vowels. :D Yay.
ㅗ looks like a perpendicular symbol, or an upside down T. This makes the oh sound.
Remember that all of our vowels, if used without a consonant next to them, need the ㅇ placeholder next to them. Thus, 오 sounds like
+ Show Spoiler [Check your answer] +Yep, still the same, oh![[image loading]](http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/423710/playmaker_oh_face.jpg)
Another letter! ㄹ looks like an s or a 2. This one ALWAYS confuses me when I'm trying to remember how to write it. I always end up making it backwards, but I've gotten better.
This guy makes the r/l sound. It's kind of a mixture of both. Interestingly enough, if you listen to Korean conversation, sometimes it sounds more like r, and sometimes it sounds more like l.
As I learned it, it was always l.
Thus, 라라 reads as
+ Show Spoiler [Check your answer] +
Pop quiz!
What does this say?
진로
+ Show Spoiler [Check your answer] +![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/thumb/1/17/Jinrobeaniepower.png/200px-Jinrobeaniepower.png) If you don't know who that is... /facepalm jinro
What does this say?
날라
+ Show Spoiler [Check your answer] +nal rah![[image loading]](http://img.dailygame.co.kr/news/200909/attachments/20090910_9b360e41bb94d104729cb7bb7c7e6d74.jpg) It's Nal_ra! (I've been watching too many episodes of Old Boy, sorry!)
Try to write this in Hangul: Oh, no!
+ Show Spoiler [Check your answer] +
Also try to write this: Ring
+ Show Spoiler [Check your answer] +
If you got everything correct, congrats on becoming that much closer to learning hangul!
If not, don't worry, go back, read over and try to memorize things again. It's tough trying to learn hangul in a short span of time. Like all languages, if you don't get one part (esp. in the beginning), the rest will be VERY confusing. So make sure you're getting the basics down!
That's all for lesson 2, lesson 3 will be up in a few days probably.
Again, if I made any silly mistakes or typos, please let me know!
If you wish to be directed to online hangul resources, feel free to post or PM, and me or others will be glad to help you.
화이팅! Hwaiting!
Next lesson: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=219117
 
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Nice tutorial  . Learning Hangul is really important for starcraft fans. After I learned Hangul, I'm now able to read player's names, maps, and whatever hangul I see whenever I watch vods(some texts in the vods that are written in hangul are still english, for example, 써깃브레이거+ Show Spoiler + or 스타리그+ Show Spoiler +). Learning this is really useful. I hope that a lot would read and try to learn this. GJ.
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I read the first one a few days ago and actually remembered!
Thanks for doing these, looking forward to lesson 3!
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These threads are great, I hope you continue to give us lessons :D
I've always wanted to learn Korean and you make it really fun to get started.
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This is amazing. Learning stuff that I tried to learn from other sites and failed miserably. mizU our hero!
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This is awesome!
I read the first part and you teached very well because I immediatly understood the block system. I was able to solve all your exercises.
Thanks for devoting some time to post this, I hope to see more exercises and new letters
Btw, didn't know you could rate blogs lol
gave it a 5 of course
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Wouldn't ㅈ be more of J sound and ㄱbe more of a g sound? I know that ㅈis used for gg but thats only based on the sound of gg which is a j sound like in gentrification rather than grape.
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again 5/5 and again thx I tried to start learning hangul a while ago but somehow didn't
really do it, but you got me started so I already knew all of this ^^ (still looking forward to the next part ofc ^.^)
and yes the ㄹ confuses me too when writing it.
By now I actually remember where most of the letters are on the keyboard 
plus: loved oldboy 강민 화이팅!
was that right...? I hope so, actually did it from memory without looking at tlpd or something
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I've been messing around with Rosetta Stone for learning korean, its great... i've learned alot of words (which ultimately is important in speaking a language) but it skips over teaching you individual symbols and their sounds (you can do this yourself within the program) and this blog is a huge help for me!
There is a huge difference between knowing how to read words and knowing how to construct them. When I read English I read the whole word, but I've been speaking it my entire life, I can tell you the rules of grammar and spelling and understand how to figure out how to spell a word even if I've never heard it before (so i can look up what it means)..... if I can ever get to that point with Hangul, I'll be happy ;p
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On April 29 2011 18:58 StutteR wrote:
Wouldn't ㅈ be more of J sound and ㄱbe more of a g sound? I know that ㅈis used for gg but thats only based on the sound of gg which is a j sound like in gentrification rather than grape.
Now that I think about it, that's true. I have to go back and edit that in the first lesson and the recap of the second one. I think I just felt like gee would be read as jee because I'm an SNSD fan. :3
Thanks for pointing that out.
It's a bit confusing when you bring in the ㄱ though, because it makes the k sound as well. But yeah, I'll change the romanized lesson part in the first blog.
EDIT: I actually just had to change the part where I romanized what 지지 was read as. :D
On April 29 2011 19:00 onlinerobbe wrote:again 5/5 and again thx I tried to start learning hangul a while ago but somehow didn't really do it, but you got me started so I already knew all of this ^^ (still looking forward to the next part ofc ^.^) and yes the ㄹ confuses me too when writing it. By now I actually remember where most of the letters are on the keyboard plus: loved oldboy 강민 화이팅! was that right...? I hope so, actually did it from memory without looking at tlpd or something
Yep, Kang Min, that's correct. :D
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btw.... found an awesome game that you might want to highlight in ur blog.....http://www.aeriagloris.com/LearnKorean/ its a multiple choice game to learn hangul letters and sounds.
You can have 3,4 or 5 options to choose from (click on where it says "X choices") and you can play with a basic, full or vowel only set of letters. Oh and you can switch around hangul and latin (alphabets) so you can have latin as the question and hangul as the answers.
I've already nailed the vowels in under 5 mins. Moved on to the basic set now.
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On April 29 2011 19:40 emythrel wrote:
btw.... found an awesome game that you might want to highlight in ur blog.....http://www.aeriagloris.com/LearnKorean/ its a multiple choice game to learn hangul letters and sounds.
You can have 3,4 or 5 options to choose from (click on where it says "X choices") and you can play with a basic, full or vowel only set of letters. Oh and you can switch around hangul and latin (alphabets) so you can have latin as the question and hangul as the answers.
I've already nailed the vowels in under 5 mins. Moved on to the basic set now.
Pretty cool, actually.
After doing a few basics, I switched to fulls and realized I need to work on my vowels. :3
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I'm studying this stuff overnover again I want to learn hangul so far I'm flawless
And thanks so much dude.
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awesome, just awesome, didn't really think that korean letters are so easy, it's so logical
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you can practice too, when you translate random stuff at google translate (they have an automatic transcription feature for korean, so you can check if you are correct)
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On April 29 2011 19:55 mizU wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2011 19:40 emythrel wrote:
btw.... found an awesome game that you might want to highlight in ur blog.....http://www.aeriagloris.com/LearnKorean/ its a multiple choice game to learn hangul letters and sounds.
You can have 3,4 or 5 options to choose from (click on where it says "X choices") and you can play with a basic, full or vowel only set of letters. Oh and you can switch around hangul and latin (alphabets) so you can have latin as the question and hangul as the answers.
I've already nailed the vowels in under 5 mins. Moved on to the basic set now. Pretty cool, actually. After doing a few basics, I switched to fulls and realized I need to work on my vowels. :3
Hehe, I've now got that game mastered. I also read a very informative guide to the hangul alphabet, but since that is the point of this blog.... I shall leave that to you and not link what I've just used. Literally just learned the entire hangul alphabet in an hour (thank evolution for eidetic memory!), i fired up Rosetta stone and was able to actually read, albeit a bit slow, what I was supposed to be saying. Its actually really cool, because all the little neuances with letter sounds can't really be explained in text... you need to hear it.
Anywho, this blog got me started with reading hangul, and inspired me to do a google search to find a full explaination because i didn't want to have to wait for ur next blog lol. Now I just have to keep practicing regularly.
6/5 for you sir!
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Thank you so much, this is really helpful, I remembered the first lesson and now I know this too!
At first I was kinda confused because I started reading some stuff like in my language. We read as we write, the same letters make the same sounds everywhere. Then I remembered everything should be pronounced in English and I understand everything now.
화이팅! Hwaiting!
The E shaped letter is t, I guess.
화이팅 = h oh ah ee t ee ng
This rocks. :D
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Nal_ra wouldn't be the best choice because it would be pronounced Nalla...
But your lessons are really well written out =] five stars~
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This is so fun, thanks for the lessons. xD
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Calgary25977 Posts
Nice lesson
On ㄹ = R or L, I've empyrically found the following:
If it's the first letter, it's 'R' -> 란 = Ran, 다른 = Da-reun
If it's the last letter, it's 'L' -> 날 = Nal, 달콘하다 = Dal-kon-ha-da
If they are back-to-back, then both change to 'Ls' -> 헬로 = Hel-lo, 필로 = Pil-lo (These aren't actual words, I just made up Konglish
Maybe not 100% accurate, but that should get you through 90% of situations where you wonder if you pronounce it as an R or L.
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