Lesson #1: My very first Korean lesson.
So hey guys, I have finally embarked on my Korean language learning journey! I came into class quite early and there were a couple of students already present in class but soon the classroom was filled up and the lesson finally started. The teacher greeted us by saying 안 녕하세요. But there was no response. She greeted us again. But yet there was silence. So the teacher said that we had to greet her back. So we greeted her back 안녕하세요.
Well i bet most of you have seen this word right?
Yep, during the first lesson, we had learned about simple greetings.
1)안녕하세요
2)만나서 반갑습니다
3)저는 ___ 입니다
So it’s kinda hard for someone to read this without learning how to read but our teacher just taught us how to pronounced these greetings anyway.
She also stressed that we shouldn’t learn how to read korean by using the romanized version and not just just to practised saying it in our head but say it out.
We also learn how the Korean words came about which was really cool. If you guys are interested in finding out, send me a request.
The most important part of our lesson was learning about the vowels and a few consonants.
So we started with these 5:
ㅏ ㅓ ㅗ ㅜ ㅡㅣ
Well these does not look like korean words of course, we do need to start from the basics!
I’m trying my best to teach you how to pronounced these vowels to do show me some understanding.
Please watch the video to learn now to pronounced the following words that i will be teaching.
ㅏ= ah
ㅓ= or
ㅗ= o
ㅜ = ou
ㅡ= eugh
ㅣ= ee
Then the teacher showed us 4 more vowels:
ㅑ ㅕ ㅛ ㅠ
Noticed anything similar to vowels we learnt earlier?
If not, its actually the extra line present on the previous vowels.
for example, ㅏ vs ㅑ.
so the extra line is pronounced like a Y.
Thus,
ㅑ= yah
ㅕ= yor
ㅛ= yo
ㅠ= you
So that’s all the vowels we learnt that day so to make these vowels into proper words, you need to add a ㅇ to it.
For example: 아 야 어 여 우 유 오 요 이 으
Then we leaned 3 consonants:
ㅁㄴㄹ
So each consonant have a certain sound like ㅁ= m ㄴ=n ㄹ= r/l
So i think korean is like phonetics you just combine the letters to make a sound. So in the case of ㅁㄴㄹ, if we add it to the vowels, we have:
마먀머며모묘무뮤
나냐너녀노뇨누뉴
라랴러려로료루류
Well, i do not know what these words mean but it’s just to learn the pronounciation.
We learned some vocabulary too!
So hope you have learnt something today and remember to watch the video to learn how to pronounce!
#korean #1 #vowels #consonants
Well i bet most of you have seen this word right?
Yep, during the first lesson, we had learned about simple greetings.
1)안녕하세요
2)만나서 반갑습니다
3)저는 ___ 입니다
So it’s kinda hard for someone to read this without learning how to read but our teacher just taught us how to pronounced these greetings anyway.
She also stressed that we shouldn’t learn how to read korean by using the romanized version and not just just to practised saying it in our head but say it out.
We also learn how the Korean words came about which was really cool. If you guys are interested in finding out, send me a request.
The most important part of our lesson was learning about the vowels and a few consonants.
So we started with these 5:
ㅏ ㅓ ㅗ ㅜ ㅡㅣ
Well these does not look like korean words of course, we do need to start from the basics!
I’m trying my best to teach you how to pronounced these vowels to do show me some understanding.
Please watch the video to learn now to pronounced the following words that i will be teaching.
ㅏ= ah
ㅓ= or
ㅗ= o
ㅜ = ou
ㅡ= eugh
ㅣ= ee
Then the teacher showed us 4 more vowels:
ㅑ ㅕ ㅛ ㅠ
Noticed anything similar to vowels we learnt earlier?
If not, its actually the extra line present on the previous vowels.
for example, ㅏ vs ㅑ.
so the extra line is pronounced like a Y.
Thus,
ㅑ= yah
ㅕ= yor
ㅛ= yo
ㅠ= you
So that’s all the vowels we learnt that day so to make these vowels into proper words, you need to add a ㅇ to it.
For example: 아 야 어 여 우 유 오 요 이 으
Then we leaned 3 consonants:
ㅁㄴㄹ
So each consonant have a certain sound like ㅁ= m ㄴ=n ㄹ= r/l
So i think korean is like phonetics you just combine the letters to make a sound. So in the case of ㅁㄴㄹ, if we add it to the vowels, we have:
마먀머며모묘무뮤
나냐너녀노뇨누뉴
라랴러려로료루류
Well, i do not know what these words mean but it’s just to learn the pronounciation.
We learned some vocabulary too!
So hope you have learnt something today and remember to watch the video to learn how to pronounce!
