October 17, 2011

Hangul Part 2

Here are the rest of the consonants

(ng) ㅇ is very common, and simple. When ㅇ is at the beginning of a syllable it has no sound at all, it is silent, it is like a place holder since syllables must start with a consonant, when you need a sound at the beginning of syllable but that sound is only in vowels then you use this character to use as a place holder. When at the end of a syllable it is pronounced as a light 'ng', like the 'ng' in 'Nothing', 'Waiting' and 'running'. The 'g' in 'ng' is light and almost unheard, almost. ex: 안녕(An-nyeong)(meaning: Hello(informal), Good-bye(informal)), 고양이(ko-yang-ee)(meaning: Cat), 영국(Young-guk)(meaning: England)


(j/ch) has light 'j' sound when in between vowels. When at the beginning of a syllable it is often heard as a 'ch' sound. at the end of a syllable it sounds just like the characters ㅅ and ㄷ, meaning at the end of a syllable it is like a soft 'd' or 't' sound. ex: 중국(Chong-guk)(meaning: China)


(ch) this character as a 'cha' sound, always a 'cha' sound, it never changes unlike the character ㅈ. ex: 축하합니다(chaog-ha-ham-ni-da)(meaning: Congratulations(Very formal))


(k) this character sounds like 'kha', almost like the character ㄱ but more of a 'k' sound. ex: 캐나다(Kha-na-da)(meaning: Canada)


(t) sounds like 't', almost like the character ㄷ. ex: 태국(tae-guk)(meaning: Thailand)


(p) sounds like 'p', almost like the character ㅂ, but with more air. ex: 필리핀(Pil-li-pin)(meaning: Filipino)


(h) sounds like a 'h', when at the end of a syllable that has the characters ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, and ㅈ the character ㅎ is usually not heared, and the characters ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, and ㅈ with sound more like the characters ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, and ㅊ but with more air. ex: 한국(Han-guk)(meaning: Korea), 한국어(Han-guk-eo)(meaning: Korean(language. ex: when putting a site in korean it will say 한국어 instead of 'Korean'), 한국 사람(Han-guk sa-ram)(meaning: Korean. ex: When koreans introduce themself and say they are korean they say '저는 한국 사람입니다(Jeo-nun han-guk sa-ram-im-ni-da)')

That is all for consonants, hope it helped.
Next are vowels.

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