I'm seriously so thankful for all the positive feedback and the help with correcting things that you guys have all graciously given me. Thank you so much! 감사합니다! TL사랑해!
This is part... 5 of my hangul lesson... blog... series thing. If you don't know any hangul yet and still want to learn, you should check out my earlier blogs before reading this one! If you're already caught up, let's jump into it!
If you didn't get them all, make sure you go back and review! It's very frustrating to try and read something but you don't know that one letter, and if you misread it it changes the whole word. :o
Let's get into the new letters! This whole lesson is going to be what I like to refer to as "additions" or "add-ons" as well as a few vowels. You'll get what I'm talking about when we get into it. :D
ㄱ -> ㅋ First up is ㅋ. The letter that is being "added-on" from is ㄱ or g. If you can tell, there's an extra line in the middle. ㅋ makes the k, and also kind of looks like a backwards k. Since the ㄱ also makes the k sounds sometimes, this one is pretty easy to remember. ^^ This is also used by Koreans to LOL, ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ, to mean the kekekeke sound
This one's not a reactor or a tech lab, just a vowel. :D ㅓ makes the eo sound. Don't get confused with the other vowels as they also look similar. (ㅏ and ㅓ. Just make sure you know one really well, and the other will come naturally. I learned 아 ah first.)
ㅈ -> ㅊ And on to another add-on. The "base" letter is going to be ㅈ or j. Now the new letter is ㅊ and it makes the ch sound. This one is also pretty easy to remember as long as you have ㅈ down, because the sounds are similar.
een-cheon NOT chan Make sure you know the difference! Incheon, the second biggest city in South Korea. ^^ I want to visit! Incheon also sponsored GSL if I'm not mistaken.
ㄷ -> ㅌ Yay more letters. Our base is going to be ㄷ or d, and we'll add on a middle line to make ㅌ, which makes the t sound. It looks exactly like an E, but can change a little when put next to certain vowels. 티히 Teehee, easy right?
ㅂ -> ㅍ The next "base" letter we'll be using is ㅂ or b. It's not as simple as the other add-ons to visualize, but they're quite similar. ㅍ makes the p sound. ㅍ is often used to substitute for F sounds as there are no Fs in Korean.
peu-roh-toh-seu or Protoss. My race. <3 Don't hate ㅋㅋㅋ
And we'll close with another vowel. ㅜ makes the oo sounds. It also looks similar to the ㅗ (oh) vowel, so be careful and try to also get one that you know really well, and the other one will come naturally.
Review time! I know there's a lot, but it'll really help when you start putting everything together. Plus I think as you're learning you need more practice the more letters you know. It helps with the memorization. :D
So, as I looked through my little notepad which keeps track of the letters I did already, and which need to be completed... You guys should all feel a little accomplished by now if you knew 0 hangul when you started. Check it out, these are all the letters you know: + Show Spoiler [Wows] +
ㅈㅣㅏㅎㅇㄴㅗㄹㄱㅁㅅㅐㅂㄷㅡㅔㅋㅌㅊㅍㅜㅓ Congrats, you're almost done!
Not quite yet! My Study Abroad advisor e-mailed me and said that the Korea University acceptance package came in, and so he's going to mail that to me. I'm assuming when I get it I'm gonna blog about it cuz I'm gonna be so fxcking excited to go with all their materials with pictures of Korea and all kinds of other hype. Till then, my plane ticket is still not purchased. I guess I'll just have to ladder till then so I can hopefully make bronze league in Korea. ㅈㅈ. PM me if you wanna play customs, or such. ^^ I'm still learning Korean, my understanding of it is so basic right now, so my goal is to be able to start and carry a conversation when I get there. I should be in Korea in late August. So let me know where all you Koreans are and how I can get a hold of you so we can hang out! 고고씽!
Again, please correct me if I made a silly mistake or typo! You guys are awesome! <3 I hope you guys are looking forward to my next lesson! Please leave questions and comments. :D 화이팅!
and may I add a very important sc unit, the scout? 라탙타타타타타타타 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ :D
I'm seriously starting to read single words/expressions as fast as english, I know what the word is before reading the end of it : )) still don't know the meaning of like 99% of them but some day
thanks again for your blog, helps a lot ! I am looking forward to go live in korea for a while, i'm planing on going this winter. if i do get in Seoul and you're there i'll buy you some drink with great pleasure sir !
Thanks for your amazing work! I can tell that you put a lot of time and effort into these blogs, with all the examples and little quizzes. Even though I've been taking first year Korean at uni, I definitely still enjoyed this! Keep up the good work.
By the way, I think it would be helpful to put [Part 5] or [Lesson 5] or something in the title so people can tell it's a new one and not just a bump or something. I dunno, just a suggestion ^^
On May 19 2011 16:42 onlinerobbe wrote: <3 this one was one of the best for me at least
and may I add a very important sc unit, the scout? 라탙타타타타타타타 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ :D
I'm seriously starting to read single words/expressions as fast as english, I know what the word is before reading the end of it : )) still don't know the meaning of like 99% of them but some day
That sounds like my progress so far. I can read everything. but I have no idea what they mean. T.T Still learning, but I'm glad you're picking up on Hangul. It's impressive to people who don't know how easy it is. ^^
On May 19 2011 16:42 Marou wrote: thanks again for your blog, helps a lot ! I am looking forward to go live in korea for a while, i'm planing on going this winter. if i do get in Seoul and you're there i'll buy you some drink with great pleasure sir !
For sure! I wonder if I'll still be in Korea when you come around. Feel free to PM me if you know when and where you'll be!
On May 19 2011 17:51 amethyst wrote: Thanks for your amazing work! I can tell that you put a lot of time and effort into these blogs, with all the examples and little quizzes. Even though I've been taking first year Korean at uni, I definitely still enjoyed this! Keep up the good work.
By the way, I think it would be helpful to put [Part 5] or [Lesson 5] or something in the title so people can tell it's a new one and not just a bump or something. I dunno, just a suggestion ^^
THANK YOU. It does take me a while to organize everything in my head, plan out the letters, and then get my format down. The examples take the longest cuz most of the examples I think of have letters that haven't been learned yet, which will be less of a problem as we get more lessons done. ^^ But yeah, the lessons take at least a couple hours each, but I really enjoy writing them. I'm also a perfectionist, so it has to be as close to perfect as possible before I post it, but even then there's mistakes everywhere.
Maybe I'll try doing that, or have a mod label each of the lessons. But I don't really want to start doing that now, since all the others have been kind of the same. Thanks for the suggestion though!
I'll be in Pohang when you arrive, so if you want to take a little bus trip down south (be at least a three hour drive) I'll be around. Or you can take the KTX to GyungJu and get there in about an hour and then it's a 25 minute bus ride to my little hamlet by the sea.
Also, I'd like to mention for those who don't know, the ㄹ character does not actually make an R sound, as in radio. 라디오 would actually be pronounced 'la-dee-o (long O as in 'owe' but without the -we sound to close it out). Korean doesn't actually have an R sound anywhere in it's alphabet. Consequently, this is one of the hardest sounds for them to make when they learn English. If you want an exercise in futility and madness, try teaching a classroom full of students of just about any age how to say 'roll', 'ruler' or 'learn'.
Given that, I've never understood the inclination to transliterate the Korean ㄹ into an R sound when writing it in English. Just something to keep in mind. A common occurrence of this Korean/English oddity is in the spelling of Norae Bang. A Norae Bang (노래방) is a Korean karaoke place and it's pronounced in Korean as No-Lay Bahng. But always when it's spelled in English, it's written with the R as I did.
Man I love of these things so much. I started knowing 0 hangul and now I got all the questions right. Well I didn't get 저글링 right. I thought the last glyph was leong instead of ling. >_<
I actually had that wrong because of english, even tho I'm german and we pronounce it basically the same as the koreans, so I should have just try it with my own language as the "base"
ps: with "basically the same" I mean at least the a and the o .. cause, we do have the letter R
On May 20 2011 05:03 Chill wrote: Some of them are loaded questions
English people pronounce radio like "ray-dee-oh" (래이디오) Koreans pronounce radio like "rah-dee-oh" (라디오)
No way you could get that right unless you'd heard it pronounced in Korean!
The way you presented it makes it really easy to learn for people. Congrats on putting a good package together for people to learn from.
supid noob question (also i don't know how to write these chars properly, so i just copy/pasta ㅋㅋ):
with 래이, wouldn't it be like ra-y-dee-oh? so, shouldn't the ㅣ be within the first block thingy? or is it not allowed to have two vowels next to each other in one?
/edit: whoaaa also, i just tried to speak the text on a tiny soju bottle my dad brought with him from korea, and i actually noticed that the last two block thingys spell soju :D yay!
On May 20 2011 05:03 Chill wrote: Some of them are loaded questions
English people pronounce radio like "ray-dee-oh" (래이디오) Koreans pronounce radio like "rah-dee-oh" (라디오)
No way you could get that right unless you'd heard it pronounced in Korean!
The way you presented it makes it really easy to learn for people. Congrats on putting a good package together for people to learn from.
supid noob question (also i don't know how to write these chars properly, so i just copy/pasta ㅋㅋ):
with 래이, wouldn't it be like ra-y-dee-oh? so, shouldn't the ㅣ be within the first block thingy? or is it not allowed to have two vowels next to each other in one?
/edit: whoaaa also, i just tried to speak the text on a tiny soju bottle my dad brought with him from korea, and i actually noticed that the last two block thingys spell soju :D yay!
ㅇ is silent, so what I wrote is ray-ee-dee-oh.
You can't write 라ㅣ디오 because every Korean syllable must start with a consonant. ㅇ is the silent consonant.
You may think ray-dee-oh = 래디오, but the truth is that's still rah-dee-oh... kind of. Koreans use ㅔ/ㅐ+이 to make the 'ay' sound, because without the extra 이 it just makes the 'ah' sound... kind of.
I can't explain it perfectly, some Korean person back me up / explain it better.
^ beat me to it I am pretty sure you mustn't do that, the ㅇ has to be in between and so the new block starts (?) luckily there are enough people here to correct/confirm this
go to Control Panel (Systemsteuerung) -> regions and languages?... (Regionen und Sprachen)->Keyboards/Languages? (Tastaturen und Sprachen)-> and click on "change Keyboards" (Tastaturen aendern) there you install the korean keyboard layout, only check 2 boxes in the list, do not check "show more (mehr zeigen)"
after that you press Alt+Shift, now you see on the bottom right
this is pretty much the english keyboard layout, so "qwerty" now you can press "Alt Gr" or click on the "A" with your mouse, suddenly you see this:
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Only mistake is Zergling is spelt 저글링 not 저그링
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