[Music] annyeong hi I'm Billy and in this video series we'll be learning how to read and write hunga hunga is the word for the korean alphabet now you might be afraid to learn hunga or think that it's too difficult because at first glance it might just look like a bunch of circles and sticks kind of like an alien language but once you learn the basics of how it works Hangul is really simple to learn you can actually learn how to read and write it in just a few hours with some practice I should also note that although it might be tempting to just write Korean using the English alphabet instead of learning hunga doing this will really hurt your progress in the language as soon as you begin learning any grammar so learn Hunger Now and you'll thank me later hunga is unique because unlike other writing systems it was created fairly recently in the mid 1400s by the king at the time who was named syndrome before Hangul was created the majority of Korean simply could not read or write their own language so people who were wealthy and educated at the time would instead read and write using the Chinese language because the Korean language didn't have a writing system fortunately for us hunga is an alphabet just like English uses an alphabet so you won't have to memorize thousands of characters like you would if you wanted to read and write Chinese or Japanese instead there are just 24 unique letters that you'll need to know in order to read and write any sound that you want using hunger so let's get started learning our first few letters here's our first letter and it's a consonant what is a consonant hunga just like the English alphabet is made up of consonants and vowels now vowels are the letters AEIOU and sometimes why as you probably learned in school and consonants are just every other letter that's not a vowel in order to make a sound or a syllable in Korean we'll need at least one consonant and one vowel together to write this letter start from the top left and draw it all in one stroke going to the right and then downward you can pause the video to practice writing it yourself writing these letters in the correct order is very important because some letters can actually appear to be different letters if they're stroke order is done incorrectly you'll see examples of this later but for now focus on learning the correct stroke order with each new letter and it'll save you a lot of time later on this letter is pronounced similar to a K or a G in English it's not a strong case ound like in the word kite but it's also not a strong G sound like in the word great it's between a KN a G and a bit softer now since this is just a consonant by itself it doesn't have a sound so in order to give it a sound we'll first need to add a vowel let's go ahead and learn our first vowel and then we'll come back to this letter to hear what it sounds like here's our second letter and it's a vowel to draw it start at the top and draw a single line down then draw a second shorter line to the right practice writing this on your own a few times this letter is pronounced ah ah such as in the words law or car in American English now that we have a vowel we can give our first consonant a sound so let's put them together and create our first syllable in Korean syllables are written arranged into block this is the first type of block that we'll be using C stands for consonant and V stands for vowel and there are six types of blocks that we'll use depending on which vowels we use and how many letters we'll talk about when to use other block types as we learn more letters and once we've learned all 24 letters you'll already know which blocks to use since we've only covered one consonant in one vowel so far we can put the two of them together in this order to make our first sound and here it is just like in English if we take our k or g sound and attach an AA sound we get the sound cop cop notice how it's not cough and it's not gah but it's ha this sound is between a K and a G in English practice it on your own ha ha and one more time ha here's our next letter which is another consonant to draw it start at the top and draw it all in one stroke going down and to the right practice writing it on your own this letter is similar to n such as in the word now in English if we combine it with our vowel ah we can hear that this letter would become na na and one more time na [Music] here's another consonant it's drawn in two pieces first draw a horizontal line going from left to right then draw a second line from the left of the first line and in one stroke go down into the right practice writing it on your own this letter is similar to a tee or a D sound in English but it's not a hard T sound like in the word time and it's not a hard D sound like in the word dog it's between T and D and as a bit softer we can combine this consonant with our vowel ah and hear it sound directly ha ha and once more ha you can already see how it could be difficult to read and write hunger using English letters because already two of our four letters can't even be written correctly using English let's do a bit of practice try reading the following sounds on your own without looking at your notes you can pause the video here here are the answers ha ha ha and again ha ha ha practice these sounds on your own writing each letter individually writing them together and then sounding them out the key to learning hunger quickly is practicing it as much as possible in the next lesson we'll cover more consonants and vowels and we'll learn another important syllable block and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click Subscribe and follow along chrome Tomic doba annyeong and welcome to the second part in this lesson in the last part we introduced the basics of hunga and learned our first three consonants and our first vowel we also covered our first syllable block in this video we'll learn five more consonants and a vowel as well as another syllable block that we can use at the end we'll review them in a practice section so let's get started learning our next six letters here's our next letter which is a consonant to draw it start at the top left and draw a line down then going back to the top left draw one stroke that goes to the right and then down finally make one more horizontal line from the bottom left to the bottom right avoid the temptation to draw this using only one line or it might be mistaken for another letter that will be learning about later practice writing this on your own a few times this letter is similar to M such as in the word mom in English if we combine it with our vowel ah we can hear that this letter would become ma ma and one more time ma [Music] here's another consonant to draw it start at the top left and draw a lying-down then go to the top right and draw a second line down finally draw two horizontal lines from left to right from the middle of the first stroke and from the bottom of the first stroke like this practice writing this on your own a few times this letter is pronounced similar to a P or a B in English but it's not a hard P sound like in the word Park and that's not a hard B sound like in the word ball it's between P and B and is a bit softer we can combine this consonant with our vowel oo and here it's sound directly pah pah and once more ha [Music] here's another continent to draw it start at the top and draw a slightly curved line going down and sideways to the left start again from the top and this time draw a similar line to the right practice writing this on your own a few times this letter is similar to s such as in the word snake in English if we combine it with our vowel ah we can hear that this letter would become ha ha and one more time ah [Music] here's our next letter another continent to draw it make a horizontal line from left to right then draw a slightly curved line going down in sideways to the left just as we did with our last letter draw another similar line to the right practice writing this on your own a few times this letter is similar to a CH or a J sound in English but it's not a hard CH sound like in the word cherry and it's not a hard J sound like in the word job it's between CH and J and it's a bit softer we can combine this consonant with our vowel oo and here it's sound directly tah tah and once more tah here's our last consonant for this part first draw a short line from the top going down then draw a horizontal line from left to right finally draw a circle underneath the horizontal line starting from the top and going counterclockwise practice writing this on your own a few times this letter is similar to H such as in the word hand in English if we combine it with our vowel ah we can hear that this letter would become ha ha and one more time ha here's our second vowel to draw it start at the top and draw a line down then draw a second longer horizontal line from the left to the right practice writing this on your own a few times this letter is pronounced all such as in the word old in English last time we learn how we can use this kind of block with our vowel oo to put our letters together and form a syllable let's first use this same block again and the same vowel ah and practice the letters that we've learned in this part try reading the following syllables on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers ma ha ha ha ha but this kind of block is only used when the vowel is vertical so far we've learned ah and all and of these 2 only ah is a vertical vowel since it goes up and down in order to use our new vowel all we'll need to use a different block that's for horizontal vowels here's that block remember that C stands for consonant and V stands for vowel so let's do a bit more practice here all of the consonants that we've learned so far along with the vowel ol using our new syllable block try reading the following syllables on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers whole goal whole bowl whole soeul tool hole practice these sounds on your own writing each letter individually writing them together and then sounding them out remember that the key to learning hungary quickly is practicing it as much as possible in the next lesson we'll learn a few more letters as well as some new block types that we can use and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click subscribe and follow along chrome Tomic doba annyeong welcome to the third lesson in this series in the last part we learned five additional consonants and one more vowel as well as another syllable block in this video we'll learn two more consonants and two new syllable blocks we'll also do some additional practice using everything that we've learned so far so let's get started here's our first letter which is a consonant to draw it start at the top left and draw a line to the right and then down next draw the second horizontal line below that starting from the left and going to the right finally draw the third line from the start of the second line going down then to the right although it might seem easier to just draw this letter like a backwards s doing so can make the letter look unbalanced it's best to draw this in three strokes instead of one practice writing this on your own a few times this letter sounds like it's between an L and an R in English however it's neither an L or an R instead to pronounce this letter position your tongue as if you were going to say a D sound such as on the word dog but make an L sound instead if we combined it with our vowel ah from before we can hear that the sound would become la ah and one more time ah notice that it's not law and it's definitely not raw since it's pronounced using a different tongue position you can hear how it's a softer sound here's our next consonant it's simple to draw make a circle starting from the top and going counterclockwise practice writing this on your own a few times this letter has two uses first this letter can be used at the beginning of a syllable to give an empty sound remember that in order to make a sound or syllable in Korean we'll need at least one consonant and one vowel together so far we've learned a few consonants that we can use with the vowels ah and old but we haven't yet learned how to make the sound ah and O on their own we can use this new letter in place of another consonant to hear the vowel by itself here are two examples using our two vowels here we have the syllables ah and all since this new consonant doesn't have any sound when it's used at the beginning of a syllable we can use it instead of another consonant to hear the vowel sound directly in this way it acts like an empty consonant but this letter has two uses and it's second use is at the end of a syllable but in order to use this consonant at the end of a syllable we'll first need to learn a new kind of syllable block so far we've only learned two syllable blocks one for horizontal vowels and one for vertical vowels but these two syllable blocks that we've learned only allow us to use two letters in each one in addition these two syllable blocks only allow us to use a vowel at the end of them so in order to use a consonant at the end of a syllable we'll need to learn a new kind of syllable block that allows us to use three letters instead of two here are the two new syllable box that we'll need we can use these syllable blocks which each use two consonants and one vowel to create syllables that have three letters in them the left syllable block can be used with vertical vowels just like before and the right syllable block can be used with horizontal vowels here are a few practice examples using these two new syllable blocks you can pause the video here hear the answers come poured son stop side son hon poor Todd poor remember that the type of syllable block depends on the type of vowel that you're using in it and how many letters are in the syllable now let's go back to our new consonant and talked about its second usage when this consonant is used at the end of a syllable it sound is similar to ng in English such as in the word song let's take a look at a few examples try reading them yourself first you can pause the video here here are the answers bone pon Tong Tong Tong Jang dong so at the start of a syllable this consonant has an empty sound and at the end of a syllable it has the sound of ng here are a few more examples that you can read for practice you can pause the video here and hear the answers I owe on pull up home or so let's take everything together that we've learned so far all of our consonants both of our vowels and our four syllable blocks and do some practice try reading the following syllables on your own you can pause the video here here the answers aah Oh aah go I or Dom Nome tan how song tone boom door not sewn hop toe I'm own practice these two new letters on your own writing each one individually writing them in your own syllables and then sounding them out remember that the key to learning hunger quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson we'll learn several new vowels that we'll need to know and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click Subscribe and follow along chrome tomato baa [Music] [Music] annyeong welcome to the fourth lesson in this series in the last part we learned two more consonants and two more syllable blocks and how to make syllables with three letters in them in this video we'll learn four new vowels we'll also do some additional practice using everything that we've learned so far so let's get started here's our first new vowel to draw it make a short horizontal line from the left to the right then draw a longer vertical line from the top to the bottom which touches the right end of the first line practice writing this on your own a few times to hear what this vowel sounds like let's use our empty consonant that we previously learned now we can hear that this vowel has the sound all you can think of this all sound as being similar to the one you hear in the beginning of the word up in English all many first time learners confuse the sound all with the other vowel all these two vowels can sound similar at first but practising them often will help you to tell them apart let's hear these two sounds again oh all and again oh all and one more time oh all here's our next vowel to draw it make a horizontal line from the left to the right then draw a second vertical line starting from the middle of the first line and going down practice writing this on your own a few times this vowel is pronounced boo like the blue sound in the English word glue let's hear it a few more times whoo whoo and one more time whoo here's our next vowel to draw it make a single horizontal line from the left to the right practice writing this on your own a few times this vowel is pronounced like the O sound in the word good let's hear it a few more times oh and one more time Oh [Music] here's our last vowel to draw it make a vertical line from the top to the bottom practice writing this on your own a few times this vowel is pronounced e like the e sound in the word tree let's hear it a few more times e e and one more time e however there's one more thing we need to learn about this vowel when this vowel is combined with this consonant something different happen first here are a few examples of that consonant saw Sol saw sue sir however if we combine this consonant with the vowel e we get a different result she whenever this consonant is used with the vowel e it becomes she and not C we'll practice this a bit more soon so by now we've covered a total of 10 consonants and six vowels we've also learned four syllable blocks so let's put everything together that we've learned so far and do some practice try reading these syllables on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers cool halt whoa aw poor pun oh boy oh sure hon ear meme Sun doen she see me she sheep practice these letters on your own writing each one individually writing them in your own syllables and then sounding them out remember that the key to learning hunger quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson we'll learn a few more vowels and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click Subscribe and follow along chrome Tomic Doba onion welcome to the fifth lesson in this series in the last part we learn four new vowels in this video we'll learn another four vowels we'll also do some more practice using everything that we've learned so far so let's get started here's our first new vowel to draw it make a short horizontal line from the left to the right then draw a longer vertical line from the top to the bottom that touches the right side of the first line then draw a second vertical line from the top to the bottom practice writing this on your own a few times to hear what this vowel sounds like let's use our empty consonant that we previously learned now we can hear that this vowel has the sound and you can think of this a sound as being similar to the one you hear in the word egg let's hear it a few more times egg egg and one more time and here's our next vowel to draw it make a vertical line from the top to the bottom then draw a short horizontal line from left to right touching the middle of the first vertical line finally draw another vertical line from the top to the bottom touching the right side of the short horizontal line practice writing this on your own a few times this vowel is also pronounced a like the add sound in the word egg let's hear it a few more times a a and one more time a so you might be thinking how do you tell the difference between the vowel we just learned and and this new one a fortunately although originally there is a slight difference between the two and how they're pronounced these days it's fine to simply pronounce them both the exact same way a here's our next vowel to draw it make a vertical line going from the top to the bottom then draw a short horizontal line from about a third of the way down the first line and to the right finally draw another short horizontal line from left to right this time from 2/3 of the way down the first line practice writing this on your own a few times this vowel is pronounced yeah like the yaw sound in the word yawn let's hear it a few more times yeah yeah and one more time yeah here's our last vowel to draw it make a short vertical line from the top to the bottom draw another short vertical line to the right of the first also from the top to the bottom then draw a longer horizontal line that connects with the bottoms of the two vertical lines it should look like a yaw turn on its back practice writing this on your own a few times this vowel is pronounced you'll like the you'll sound in the phrase check it out you'll let's hear it a few more times you'll you'll and one more time you'll there's one more thing we need to cover about two of our four new vowels these vowels yah and yo when combined with this letter we previously learned will also create the SH sound that we saw with the vowel e here a few examples she yeah sure but this reason isn't random it's because the vowel yaw is actually a combination of the vowel sound II and the vowel ah if you say e and AH quickly it sounds like yeah the same goes for Yool Yool is actually a combination of the vowel e and all when said quickly yo becomes you'll so by now we've covered a total of ten consonants and ten vowels we've also learned four syllable blocks so let's put everything together that we've learned and do some practice try reading these syllables on your own you can pause the video here hear the answers egg and shop cool hang yum yo pay stay you'll Ted May cool yeah yep okay yeah your men okay [Music] practice these letters on your own writing each one individually writing them in your own syllables and then sounding them out remember that the key to learning hunga quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson we'll learn a few more vowels and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click subscribe and follow along chrome comet Doba annyeong welcome to the sixth lesson in this series in the last part we learn four new vowels in this video we'll learn four more vowels these will be the very last new vowels that we'll need to learn we'll also do some more practice using everything that we've learned so far so let's get started here's our first new vowel to draw it make two short horizontal lines from the left to the right these two lines will touch the next line that we're about to draw at one third of the way down and two thirds of the way down then draw a vertical line to the right of those practice writing this on your own a few times to hear what this vowel sounds like let's use our empty consonant that we previously learned now we can hear that this vowel has the sound y'all you can think of this sound as a combination of the vowel e with the vowel all said quickly ee all would become Y all let's hear it a few more times y'all y'all and one more time y'all here's our next vowel to draw it make a horizontal line from the left to the right then draw two short vertical lines from one third of the way down the first line and two thirds of the way down the first line going from the top to the bottom practice writing this on your own a few times to hear what this vowel sounds like let's use our empty consonant that we previously learned now we can hear that this vowel has the sound you you can think of this sound as a combination of the vowel e with the vowel ooh said quickly you would become you let's hear it a few more times you you and one more time you here's our next vowel to draw it first draw the letter Y all as we learned but then add one more vertical line to the right event going from the top to the bottom practice writing this on your own a few times to hear what this vowel sounds like let's use our empty consonant again now we can hear that this vowel has the sound yay you can think of the sound as a combination of the vowel e with the vowel a said quickly yeah would become yay let's hear it a few more times yay yay and one more time yay here's our last vowel to draw it first draw a vertical line from top to bottom then draw two short horizontal lines from one third of the way down the first line and two thirds of the way down to the right then draw a second vertical line touching the ends of the two short horizontal line practice writing this on your own a few times to hear what this vowel sounds like let's use our empty consonant now we can hear that this vowel has the sound yay you can think of this sound as a combination of the vowel e with the vowel egg said quickly EA would become yay let's hear it a few more times yay yay and one more time yay and just like how we learn the vowels and a can be pronounced the same way the same applies here you can pronounce both of the vowels yay and yay in the same way let's go back to one of the letters we previously learned we learned that this letter can be used as an empty consonant for example we can use it with the vowel in order to hear the vowel directly like this ah but because this letter can be used as an empty sound that means something else to that other sounds can flow through it here's an example this word hun-gu M means a Korean person but if you're going to say this word to a Korean you probably don't want to say it one letter at a time Han in here is where the empty letter is useful because there's an empty letter at the beginning of the sound in whatever letter before it can flow through it as if it were connected here the sound GUP comes before M so we can combine it to sound like this Hangu keen note that this only affects how a word is pronounced not how it's written so because of the empty consonant we're now able to say this word a lot faster than we could before hunger game this is one of the most common rules for reading Korean let's take a look at a few more examples of this rule try to read these words on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers begging sodomy paadam Han Google Jung wall giggling so by now we've covered a total of 10 consonants and 14 vowels and we've also learned four syllable blocks so let's put together everything that we've learned and do some practice try reading these syllables on your own you can pause the video here hear the answers y'all you yay yay yo you okay okay sure pew yep Yemm annyeonghaseyo practice these letters on your own writing each one individually writing them in your own syllables and then sounding them out remember that the key to learning hunga quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson we'll learn a new syllable block as well as a new type of consonant and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click Subscribe and follow along chrome Tomic doba yeah welcome to the seventh lesson in this series in the last part we learn four new vowels which were the last four vowels that we'll need to learn in this video we'll learn about two new types of syllable blocks we'll also do some more practice using everything that we've learned so far so let's get started first let's take a look at the other previous syllable blocks that we've learned we've learned a total of four syllable block two blocks for making syllables that have two letters in them and two blocks for making syllables that have three letters in them in this lesson we'll learn two more syllable blocks that we can use to make syllables that have four letters in them here's the first one this syllable block can be used for making syllable using four letters specifically this block is used with a vertical vowel let's take a look at a quick example on da shoe sale this phrase mean please sit down you'll notice that the very first syllable has four letters in it remember from the last lesson where we learned about blending syllables using the empty consonant when using a four-letter syllable if the next syllable starts with the empty consonant you'll blend the sound of the very last letter at the bottom of the syllable into the next syllable so here in this example the very last letter at the bottom of our four-letter syllable will blend into the next here ah becoming table so you could read the sentence like this and AH to say you'll remember that this only changes how a word is pronounced and not how it's written however if we want to use a horizontal vowel we'll need a different four-letter syllable block here's that second block this block also uses four letters and can be used when you have a horizontal vowel here's a quick example tuner kuru coil this sentence means I scratch my back here the first syllable in oil is a four-letter syllable and this syllable uses the horizontal vowel boof and two syllables at the bottom so we know that sounds travel through the empty consonant and this is important to know especially for four-letter syllables let's take a look at a few more examples of four-letter syllables and sounds that flow through the empty consonant try reading these examples on your own you can pause the video here hear the answers all day either good told you this means the documents I read yesterday PI again not this means bright day cop chic while this means the price is good Kouga well Goyal and this means I eat dirt in all four of those examples the empty consonant was used after the four-letter syllable but what about what a four-letter syllable is not followed by an empty consonant normally if a four-letter syllable is followed by an empty consonant it's simple to read here's another example how would you read this take a moment and pause the video if you'd like here's how to read it hired me but what if the same four-letter syllable was not followed by an empty consonant what if it were just written like this how would you read it actually we haven't yet learned how to read this so let's cover that right now I should let you know that it's very common to find this confident called lena together with another consonant at the bottom of four-letter syllable here are two examples most of the time whenever you see a syllable with a leer at the bottom together with another continent the leer will not be pronounced so for the first one the leer will not be pronounced and you can simply read this syllable as hum and for the second one you can simply read it ad kook this doesn't apply all of the time but it does most of the time a very common exception to this rule is the word for 8 which is pronounced the opposite way as y'all Dart remember that this only applies when there is no empty consonant after a four-letter syllable that has a leer at the bottom and there are also other combinations of two consonants that might appear at the bottom of a four-letter syllable besides ones containing a leer and we'll talk about those in a future episode so by now we've covered a total of 10 consonant and 14 vowels we've also learned six syllable blocks so let's put everything together that we've learned and do some quick practice try reading these examples on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers OMG da on zyo tonin New Guinea a oh um kook hi bio practice making your own four-letter syllables and reading them yourself remember that the key to learning hungry quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson you'll learn about double consonants and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click Subscribe and follow along put them Tommy Koba [Music] annyeong welcome to the eighth lesson in this series in the last part we learn the last two syllable blocks that we'll need to know making a total of six syllable blocks in this video we'll learn about a new type of letter called double consonants these double consonants are easy to learn but will take a bit of practice to be able to pronounce and recognize them let's get started these are the five double consonants in hungin and we'll cover all of them in this episode but before we cover each one let's take a look at them notice how all five of these double consonants are simply the same letters we previously learned written twice here they're normal versions drawing a double consonant is almost the exact same as drawing a regular consonant just draw the regular letter twice using the same amount of space as if it were one letter here's an example with the first letter to draw it draw the letter once and then draw it again to the right and make sure to draw them a bit thinner than the regular versions so they don't take up too much space the same thing applies to the other four double consonants so we won't cover how to draw those again first let's look at a few examples and then we'll talk about how to pronounce it gah diet um cheat gym these five double consonants are pronounced in mostly the same way as their single versions however these are spoken by slightly tensing your mouth before you say them let's take a look at two examples ha and gah the first one ha is pronounced normally as we've already learned the second one is pronounced by slightly tensing your voice before saying the consonant it's not difficult to tense your voice but it does take some practice take a short quick pause before pronouncing a double consonant if you do that it will naturally make the sound tense so for the second one take a short quick pause before saying it almost like you're breathing in and waiting it will sound like this gah it might also help to practice by pronouncing double consonants that are in the middle of a word instead of at the beginning so instead of practicing by saying God over and over practice by adding another sound before God or before any double consonant so instead of practicing gah you could add the sound ah before it and practice pronouncing ah gah to say it you'll say ah then take a quick pause tensing your mouth followed by ska ah gah and one more time ah gah and here's what it would sound like if it were normal consonant ah gah ah gah the same applies to the other four double consonant here are a few more examples of normal consonant and double consonant ha ha ha bah bah bah tah dah and here's another tip for distinguishing between regular consonants and double consonants take a piece of paper and hold it up to your mouth when you say a regular consonant the piece of paper should move a little bit as the air from your mouth hits it however when saying a double consonant because your voice is tensed and the air comes out differently the piece of paper shouldn't move noticeably at all you can use this method to check if you're saying the sounds correctly and to help you practice and you might be wondering why is it important to distinguish regular consonants and double consonants if they sound so similar to each other well to a Korean ear these sounds are quite different and using the wrong sound can change the meaning of a word for example ki means energy or power while ki means a meal hi means the moon but diet means daughter pun means a room but bun means bread higher means flesh but side means uncooked rice and tava means to sleep but Dada means to be salty let's do some practice with these five new double consonants try reading these examples on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers come tan ping sir Jim oh she dumb John gun D saw ya q Oh some fun G own sue after this lesson practice by making your own syllables using double consonants with practice you'll be able to easily pronounce and recognize double consonants from normal consonants remember that the key to learning hum go quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson we'll learn about a new type of consonant strong consonants we'll also do some more practice using everything that we've learned so far and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click subscribe and follow along chrome Tomic Doba [Music] hye-young welcome to the ninth lesson in this series in the last part we learned about double consonants in this video we'll learn about a new type of letter called strong consonant strong consonants like double consonants we'll take a bit of practice to be able to pronounce and recognize them so let's get started there are 4 strong consonants that we'll need to learn let's take a look at the first one here's how to draw it first draw a single horizontal line from the left to the right which curves down vertically then draw a second horizontal line that touches the middle of the vertical part of the first line this one is pronounced almost the same way as the very first consonant that we learned in order to compare these two sounds let's first add the empty consonant in front of them now we have ha and cough a strong consonant is simply a stronger version of a regular consonant that we've already learned here are the four regular consonants that have strong consonants in this video strong consonants are pronounced in the same way as their normal versions but with more force for this consonant imagine saying kah but putting more force by doing so we'd be making a K sound so instead of the normal consonant kah we'd get the strong consonant cos we'll do some more practice to help show the difference between regular consonants double consonants and strong consonants later in this video but first let's finish covering the rest of them here's the second strong consonant to draw it first make a horizontal line from left to right then draw a second horizontal line parallel to the first then draw a third line starting from the left of the first line going down and then to the right parallel to the first two lines let's use the empty consonant to hear the sound of this one tah-tah instead of the normal consonant which would be pas with the strong consonant we get top it's much more of a T sound in English than the normal consonant is here's the third strong consonant to draw it make a horizontal line from left to right then draw two vertical lines from top to bottom that touched the first one then draw a fourth line horizontally that touches the bottom of the second and third lines let's use the empty consonant again to hear it sound pop pop instead of the normal consonant which would be pas with the strong consonant we can pop it's much more of a P sound in English than the normal consonant is here's the fourth and final strong consonant to draw it make a short line going down then draw a horizontal line from left to right then draw two more slightly curved lines from the center of the second line one going to the left and one going to the right let's use the empty consonant again to hear it sound top top instead of the normal consonant which would be ha with the strong consonant we get chopped it's much more of a CH sound in English than the normal constant ends in the last episode we learn that we can tell the difference between a double consonant and a regular consonant by using a piece of paper we can do the same with strong consonants while regular consonants might move the piece of paper a little bit and double consonants will not noticeably move the paper at all strong consonants will cause the paper to shake try it for yourself if you want you can even use tissue paper instead to see the differences more clearly here's an example of the three types of sounds kah kah kah [Music] while these three sounds similar it's important to be able to hear the differences because in Korean words can have different meanings when they use regular consonants double consonants and strong consonants for example the word Wu means fire however wood means horns and poop can mean grass or glue native Korean speakers can easily hear the differences between these sounds simply because there's used to hearing them on a regular basis and with practice so can you let's take a look at a few more examples practice reading these syllables on your own you can pause the video here hear the answers ki ki ki tah dah ha ha Bob pop Tom ja cha oh oh cool oh don't talk for oh poor tall jaw talk if you're able to tell the differences right away great if not that's normal too you'll only get better with practice let's do some more practice with strong consonants try reading these examples on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers king peter key poem chip chi-town kin p comb poom tom okay comb q chin pure coq10 tall after this lesson practice by making your own syllables using strong consonants with practice you'll be able to easily pronounce and recognize strong consonants from double consonants and normal consonant remember that the key to learning Hungary quickly is practicing it as much as possible and thanks for watching in the next lesson we'll learn about diphthongs we'll also do some more practice using everything that we've learned so far and remember that I upload new videos to this channel every week so click subscribe and follow along put them Tomic Doba [Music] a young welcome to the 10th lesson in this series in the last part we learned about strong consonants in this video we'll learn about a new type of vowel called diphthongs diphthongs are vowels but fortunately we don't have to learn anything new diphthongs are simply a combination of two vowels into one for example take the vowel sounds cool and AH currently we can make sounds like these cool ha oh ha however what if we combined the vowel sounds full and odd together to combine them try simply saying them quickly wah wah wah we'd get wah the diphthong for wah would look like this you can see that it's simply the two vowels combined together into one this is what a diphthong is and there are seven of them to learn they're all drawn in the same order first draw the first vowel on the left then draw the vowel on the right let's look at each one individually this one is a combination of the sounds smooth and e OE lead it's pronounced 3e however this diphthong is an exception if you write this diphthong using the empty consonant you can say it as 3 but if you use any other consonant there this diphthong is more often simply pronounced as E this makes it a lot easier to pronounce when speaking Korean here's an example hee hee this one is a combination of the sound puh and all ooh all wah it's pronounced whoa whoa this one is a combination of the sounds puh and E oui oui it's pronounced oui oui oui oui oh five years of French class and I can't even introduce myself this one is a combination of the sounds whoo and a hue hue it's pronounced way way this one is a combination of the sound or and ah as we learned oh ah oh ah it's pronounced wah wah this one is a combination of the sounds pull and a way where it's pronounced way way [Music] although this one looks like a combination of the sounds oh and II it's actually a combination of the sounds pull and a way way it's pronounced as way when you can pronounce this diphthong and the previous diphthong in the same way get it in the same way the way that these diphthongs work is simple but they'll still take practice to be able to recognize them quickly let's do some practice with these diphthongs try reading these examples on your own you can pause the video here hear the answers Oh wah whoa we Wei Wei Wei Qi pond 12:3 hue hue hue keen Quan Quan tree sway sway hue congratulations we've now covered all of the consonants and vowels that are in hunga after this lesson practice by making your own syllables using diphthongs and remember that the key to learning hunger quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching in the next lesson we'll learn about sound change rules we'll also do some more practice using everything that we've learned so far and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click subscribe and follow along Chrome Talmud Oba [Music] I'm young welcome to the eleventh lesson in this series in the last part we learned about diphthongs in this episode we'll learn a bit about sound change rules we'll also cover the names of all of the letters first of all you might be wondering what R sound change rules sound change rules in Korean help us to be able to know how to pronounce words when they would otherwise be too difficult to say let's take a look at an example this is the Korean word for day but how can we pronounce it these are the three letters used in it there's two consonants and a vowel which we've already learned but what do we do when there's a consonant at the bottom such as in this one we know how to pronounce the letter at the bottom itself but not when it's used at the end of a syllable we couldn't just pronounce it as Nadja because that'd be adding an extra vowel sound hood instead we'll need to know what the sound change rule is for using that letter at the end of a syllable in order to be able to pronounce it easily this word is actually pronounced as not and here's our first sound change rule which explains how to do that first we'll need to know about bottom consonants a bottom consonant is any consonant that appears at the bottom of a syllable so the example that we just saw with nut has one bottom consonant however before we go further remember how we learned about the MT consonant if we were to add another sound after this word such as e not would become a bit different this word would simply be nagi because the bottom consonant of the first syllable could flow through the empty consonant just as we've already learned we'll only need to use this first sound change role when the syllable is not followed by the empty consonant whenever one of these seven consonants appears at the end of a syllable and the syllable isn't followed by an empty consonant it will instead be pronounced as this letter which is called a pica you can pause the video here and write these down it might seem like a lot of memorization but these are the only consonants that would cause confusion such as in our not example other consonants wouldn't even make you question how to pronounce them at the end of the word so if one of these consonants appears at the end of a syllable pronounce it as if it were a T good pretty simple right here a few examples practice reading these on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers cot not mold pot eat mod and here's our next sound change rule when used at the end of a consonant these two consonants become pronounced as their normal versions instead so this word will become bull and this word will become up after all it would be pretty difficult to say a strong consonant at the end of the syllable anyway so this rule makes a lot of sense too so now we've learned two of the most basic and important sound change rules but before we go any further let's go over the names of all of the letters of the alphabet as I'll be referring to them by their name from now on to speed things up you can pause the video and write these down there's a format for these names that almost all of them follow simply take the consonant attach the vowel e then attach earth and finally attach the consonant again at the bottom of that for example to say the name of this consonant attach E then attach earth and finally attach the consonant again this would become nyan there are three exceptions to this which I've highlighted in the list let's say the names of each of the consonants Kia bian key cut Leah mium Pia cheo yong gia kiyow kiyow kiyow kiyow kiyow and the names of the vowels are simple just add the empty consonant before the vowel and pronounce that so ah would be this vowel and wou would be this diphthong let's go back to the lesson and learn one more essential sound change rule this is an easy role if any of these four consonants appear at the end of a syllable they're just pronounced as normal can I really call this a sound change rule anyway here are some examples you can pause the video here hear the answers come on hon bye I want to remind you again that these rules are for when the syllables are not followed by the empty consonant and also remember that the key to learning hunger quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching in the next lesson we'll learn about some more common sound change rules we'll also do some more practice using everything that we've learned so far and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click Subscribe and follow along cut um Tommy Koba [Music] onion welcome to the 12th lesson in the series in the last part we learned about the most basic sound change rules and also learned the names of each of the letters in this episode we'll learn a few more common sound change rules while sound change rules aren't very difficult in themselves and there aren't too many of them they will take practice before you'll be able to use them naturally sound change rules exist to help make Korean easier to pronounce so they're a good thing in order to help us learn some more sound change rules I'm going to teach you a special trick that I know look at these five consonant these are what's known as base consonants or at least I call them that these five consonants are important because if you know them it can help you learn the rest of our sound change rules a lot more quickly most sound change rules revolve around these five continents I'll show you what I mean here's our first new sound change rule whenever you have a consonant specifically a base consonant a double consonant or a strong continent that's followed by a base consonant the second base consonant will become pronounced like a double consonant okay okay that sounds a bit difficult but it's simple how it works for example take a look at this word Huck cool this word means school actually before even worrying about this rule try to pronounce it yourself Huck and then cool huh cool Huck cool instead of saying just Huck you'll you're actually saying Huck you'll naturally just by saying huh cool you're already saying this sound change rule the first syllable hak ends with a base consonant Keo and the next syllable begins with a base consonant also Keo this is what the sound change rule is a lot of the time just saying the word normally you'll automatically be following this rule so once more whenever you have a base consonant a double consonant or a strong consonant that's followed by another syllable that starts with a base continent that second base consonant becomes pronounced as a double consonant here are a few more examples you can pause the video here here are the answers bhakta pata both both tops dark matzah satg Tata patha nos older chick dun this is probably the most common sound change rule in Korean and you'll hear it every day let's go over our next sound change rule this rule is specifically for the letter he'll whenever it comes before or after a base consonant it changes the base consonant into a strong consonant so for example take the word tool top which is a verb that means to be good there's a hit at the bottom of the first syllable and it's followed by a T good so the D --get changes into a TIA this becomes pronounced as tool top for another example take the word pakka which means peppermint the first syllable ends in the base consonant yolk and is followed by a hit so it becomes a key of this becomes pronounced as akka here are a few more examples you can pause the video here and hear the answers Takada Petko Buchan each tsukada Pyar Kiya cran can pop a kadhai mole tada for the last one mol tada remember the very first sound change rule that we learned at the end of a syllable if one of the seven consonants isn't followed by the empty consonant it becomes pronounced as a Deegan so this syllable is pronounced as both making the entire word both ha ha mol Tata this one you can simply memorize separately for now here's one more sound change roll there are three rules in one first whenever you have a TIA before the sound e that EE sound becomes pronounced as chief instead of T for example this word would be pronounced as catchy and not cut teeth second whenever you have a tikka before the sound heat the key sound becomes pronounced as Chi for example this word would be pronounced as cat cheetah and not Katia and third whenever you have a ticket before the sound e the e sound becomes pronounced as G for example this word would be pronounced as ma ji and not ma d you might be thinking first that this rule seems a bit strange actually this rule is similar to one that we have when speaking American English and it exists to help you pronounce words more fluidly for example the English word train is actually pronounced with a CH sound although it's spelled with tr we can think of the sound change role in Korean also like we're changing the hard T sound to an easier CH sound and the same thing applies to the giad we say the word drain with a JSON instead of drain which would sound a bit odd Korean also changes the diggit sound to an easier je sound here are a few examples you can pause the video here and here are the answers Bucci da GU ji ah Jie Matta the fourth one is just Matta I was trying to trick you sorry now there aren't too many words that will use the sound change rule but these are some of the more common ones however this sound change rule not only works with the sound EE and he it also works with the sounds y'all and he'll because the sounds yo and Carol originally come from Ian he yo is just a combination of the sound EE and all and yo is just a combination of the sound he and all here are two examples try to read them on your own you can pause the video here hear the answers boot oil hot oil again there aren't many words that use this sound change rule so I'd recommend just focusing on the examples given in this video for now and that's all for this video remember that the key to learning hunger quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson we'll learn a few more common sound change rules and do some more practice with everything that we've learned so far and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click subscribe and follow along from Thomas Alva [Music] annyeong welcome to the 13th lesson in this series in the last part we learned about sound change rules in this episode we'll learn a few more important sound changing rules while it might seem like there are too many sound change rules they all exist to help make Korean easier to pronounce so they're actually a good thing fortunately we don't have too many left to learn so let's jump right in here's the next sound change rule we'll need to know this rule is similar to the first sound change world that we learned whenever you have a leader that's this consonant followed by one of our five bass consonants the bass consonant will usually become a double consonant for a quick reminder here are the base consonants there's only five of them here's a quick example in this example there's a leer at the bottom of the first syllable pilot and it's followed by a base consonant a deacon at the beginning of the syllable tongue so the base consonant Teagan becomes a double consonant and the word becomes pronounced as higher down here are a few more examples here daddy beers dong hype gay shirt young Luca you say near guru however this rule is actually more of a guideline and less of a rule there are many exceptions to this so it's good to simply be aware of the rule rather than always following it here are a few common exceptions Alba well-being or glue let's move on to our next sound change rule the consonants nian and Miam are what's known as nasal consonants because they are pronounced partially using your nose try saying these consonants and you'll notice your nose vibrates as you make the sound hmm so for this rule whenever you have the consonant the up or the strong consonant P up followed by an Ian or a Miam it will become pronounced as am iam basically take one of these first two letters if it comes before one of these two letters then the first sound will change to become a Miam here's a quick example here the syllable hop ends with a B up and it's followed by an Ian in the next syllable so the P up at the bottom of hop changes into a Miam then we can read it normally as Hamidah here's some more examples Tom Ninh Pamuk da EMU Tom young in the mood has some meat on let's go on to our next sound change rule whenever you have the consonant shield followed by one of the vowel sounds e yah yah yah yah yo or you it will become pronounced as SH instead of its usual S sound for example this syllables pronounced sheep and not see like in English this looks like a long rule but just remember that this rule applies whenever you have an e sound somewhere in the vowel after the consonant shield since these vowel sounds all have an e sound at the start of them it'll apply in these cases you can think of the vowel yah as the sound e combined with an AA yah and the vowel yo as II combined with all y'all yeah as II combined with a yeah and so on but for other vowels such as ah o and earth there is no e sound so it doesn't apply so here's an example of the consonant shield together with each vowel sound she cha-cha che che sure shoe here's our next rule for this rule whenever you have a P up that's followed by a leer the P up will become a Miam and the leer will become a Mian so take a look at this example here we have top which ends in a PF the next syllable is V which starts with a lea so because of this the P up at the end of hop will change to become a Miam and the leer at the beginning of leaf will change to become an iam sound this changes the hop to a hum sound and the lead to an e sound and together we get hum knee so although it's written as popli when we read it it will become honey here are a few more examples she need huh Myung um yo hum you let's go on to our last sound change rule for this episode this rule is similar to the one we just learned but for the consonant kyo instead whenever you have a key up that comes before a leer the KIAC will become a young and the lien will become a Mian for example in this word Pak ends with a key up and the next syllable Lee starts with the Lea so here the key at the bottom will change to become an Jung and the leer at the start of the next syllable will become a Mian when we make these changes we get Peng and me or together hang me here are a few more examples sing young mang not for me man yo and that's all for this video remember that the key to learning Hangul quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson we'll learn the last few sound change roles that we'll need to know and I upload new videos to this channel every week so if you like what you see click subscribe and follow along put them Tomic doba [Music] onion welcome to the 14th lesson in this series in this episode we'll learn our last remaining sound change rules we've certainly had to learn several sound change rules but sound change rules exist for a good reason they make pronouncing Korean a lot simpler and once you start learning Korean they'll become second nature so let's jump into our lesson and finish learning the last of them here's our next sound change rule whenever you have the consonant key up or it's double or strong versions followed by either of the nasal consonants Neum or Miam the KIAC or it's double or strong versions will become pronounced as young so for an example hon kook my is the word for the Korean language here we have the syllable coupe which ends in the consonant Kia and the next syllable after that by starts with the consonant Miam so we change the sound of the kia at the bottom of coupe into an IAM and that syllable becomes kun so together we get han kun mild or read quickly handle Milan here a few more examples boom ba da da Ching no hangman hanyan palma Tuan moon word here's our next rule whenever you have a young or am iam and it's followed by a lil the Lear will become pronounced as an Ian for example the first syllable um ends in am iam and the second syllable yo begins with a leer so in this case the leer in the syllable yo will become an Ian and we get the sound yo boom you're here are a few more examples Pam naaku condom Hondo Tom young one you [Music] here's our next rule this rule also uses the nasal consonant nyan however this rule is only useful when no other sound change rule is already being used whenever you have a consonant that doesn't apply to any of the other rules and that comes before a nyan that consonant will become pronounced as a nyan for a quick example take this word we previously learned that this is pronounced hamnida because there's the consonant P up that's followed by an Ian so in this case since there's already another rule that we can use we won't need to use this new rule it's just hum needham however take a look at this example here we have a chip at the end of the first syllable and the next syllable starts with a nyan there isn't already a different role that we've learned that we can use here with chip so we can apply this new rule in order to read it so for this word the chip changes and becomes a nyan - and we get peanuts this rule makes pronouncing words like this possible here's another example we have the consonant seal at the bottom of the first syllable followed by an Ian so the shield becomes a nyan and we get the pronunciation of Madonna here are a few more common examples in them Bowl nun London Union money this rule also applies to not only the consonant Mian but to the other nasal consonant Miam as well however these don't occur often with a meum so it's better to simply learn those few exceptions as they come up here's our next sound change roll whenever you have an Ian before a lead or a Lea before an Ian the nyan will become pronounced like a lid for example here we have an Ian at the bottom of the first syllable hole the next syllable begins with a leer so the nyan at the bottom of home changes into a lid and we get poor lamb Hulan here are a few more examples Molly Sheila pilo here young warlock now let's go to our final sound change role okay this isn't actually a sound change rule but I wanted to make one last point and remind you that some words simply won't follow the rules some words have irregular pronunciations and you'll simply have to learn these separately but don't worry most of these are so commonly used that you'll end up learning them just by hearing them and you might not even realize they're regulars until you compare them to the rules in these video lessons here are a few examples of what I mean Jim you can meet honza now I'm not saying that these words don't follow any rules but they're not following the typical sound change rules that are covered in these videos and I also wanted to give you a tip about these rules if you review all of these sound change rules again you'll find that most sound change rules have to do with the base consonants the two nasal consonants nian and Miam and the consonant leaders and that's all for this video congratulations you've now completed all of the letters and major sound change role in Korean if you want more you can check out my book Korean made simple which you can find on my website and most major book retailers but my book isn't the only way that you can learn and there are a lot of good resources out there for learning Korean some that are free and some that aren't but no matter what resource you choose I'd recommend setting some basic goals for learning plan how much you want to know and by when and then getting a pen pal or someone who you can practice with again remember that the key to learning Korean quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and I upload new videos to this channel every week so if you like what you see click subscribe and follow along good I'm Tommy Toba [Music]