Lesson 2
Welcome back! This is the 2nd lesson of
"Learn to read, write and pronounce Korean". In the previous lesson,
you already learned 4 letters: ㅂ,
ㅏ, ㄴ and O. In this lesson, you will learn 4
new ones and combined with the ones you learned earlier they will open up quite
a few Korean words to you.
The first new letter is Mieum:
ㅁ
This is pronounced just like a regular
English m. Be careful not to confuse its appearance with 'O', which has rounded
corners rather than straight.
As an exercise, try to read the following
Korean words that contain the letter Mieum..
마나마 capital
city of Bahrain
ma-na-ma
안남 name of Vietnam before it became
'Vietnam'
an-nam
암만 capital
city of Jordan
am-man
Are the As boring you yet? It's time to
learn another vowel.
ㅣ
This is the vowel i. It is pronounced
like the ee in meet. The Korean letter looks much like the English letter I, so
it's easy to remember. It also looks like the Korean letter for a, except that
the dash to the right is missing. You will notice that a lot of Korean vowels
are formed on the basis of one or two vertical lines with dashes attached to
them, so memorise them well and don't get confused.
Practise reading:
나미비아 country
in Africa
na-mi-bi-a
빈 capital city of Austria
Vienna (Wien)
Now for a very important letter that will
unlock lots of words to you: Rieul
ㄹ
This letter is pronounced like r or l,
typically somewhere in between in true Asian fashion. This is Rieul. According
to the official Korean romanisation system, it is always transliterated as l.
Here are lots of words to practise with:
바바라 personal name
ba-ba-ra
이란 country
that has been in the news much lately
i-ran
리마 capital of Peru
li-ma
마닐라 capital of the Philippines
ma-nil-la
말리 country in Africa
mal-li
릴 big city in France
lil lille
마일 distance measurement
ma-il mile
리비아 country
on the North coast of Africa
li-bi-a libya
The last letter for this lesson shall be
Giyeok:
ㄱ
This letter is pronounced like g or k.
Listen to Giyeok. Be careful not to confuse it with ㄴ. When this letter is combined with a
vowel such as a or i, it changes shape slightly. See the syllable gi for
instance: 기.
Words for practise:
가나 country in Western Africa
ga-na Ghana
기니 another
country in Western Africa
gi-ni guena
리가 capital
of Latvia
ri-ga
알바니아 country
in the Balkans
al-ba-ni-a
가이아나 country
in South America
ga-i-a-na Guyana
감비아 country
almost enclosed by Senegal
gam-bi-a
Did you have any major difficulty reading
the practise words for this lesson? No? Very good! You have now learned 8
Korean letters already and the rest won't be difficult either. Feel free to
continue with the next lesson.
Source:
www.learnlangs.com
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