[Music] hi I'm Billy and in this video series we'll be learning how to read and write hunger hunga is the word for the Korean alphabet now you might be afraid to learn hunger 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 Hungar 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 Hungar doing this will really hurt your progress in the language as soon as you begin learning any grammar so learn Hungar now and you'll thank me later hunga is unique because unlike other writing systems it was created fairly recently in the mid400s by the king at the time who was named Sejong before hunger was created the majority of Koreans 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 Hunga 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 A E I O U and sometimes Y 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 their 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 K sound like in the word kite but it's also not a strong G sound like in the word great it's between a K and 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 blocks 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 and 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 A sound we get the sound ca ca notice how it's not ca and it's not ga but it's ca this sound is between a k and a g in English practice it on your own ca ca 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 [Music] na 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 and to the right practice writing it on your own this letter is similar to a t 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 is a bit softer we can combine this consonant with our vowel ah and hear it sound directly ta ta and once more ta 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 ca na ta and again ca na ta 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 [Music] anyang and welcome to the second part in this lesson in the last part we introduced the basics of hunger 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 we'll 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 [Music] ma here's another consonant to draw it start at the top left and draw a line 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 it'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 A and hear its sound directly p p and once more [Music] P here's another consonant 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 [Music] this letter is similar to such as in the word snake in English if we combine it with our vowel ah we can hear that this letter would become sa sa and one more time [Music] sa here's our next letter another consonant to draw it make a horizontal line from left to right then draw a slightly curved line going down and 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 [Music] 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 is a bit softer we can combine this consonant with our vowel ah and hear its sound directly ta ta and once more ta 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 [Music] times this letter is similar to H such as in the word hand in English if we combine it with our vowel a 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 o such as in the word old in English last time we learned how we can use this kind of block with our vowel ah 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 pa sa cha ha but this kind of block is only used when the vowel is vertical so far we've learned a and o and of these two only a is a vertical vowel since it goes up and down in order to use our new vowel 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 are all of the consonants that we've learned so far along with the vowel using our new syllable block try reading the following syllables on your own you can pause the video here here are the [Music] [Music] answers h whole practice these sounds on your own writing each letter individually writing them together and then sounding them out remember that the key to learning hunger 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 [Music] anyang 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 in the word dog but make an L sound instead if we combine it with our vowel ah from before we can hear that the sound would become la and one more time la notice that it's not la 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 a 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 a and o but we haven't yet learned how to make the sounds a 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 a and o 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 its 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 blocks 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 here are the answers come to sun tan han p 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 talk about its second usage when this consonant is used at the end of a syllable its 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 [Music] hong 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 home an h 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 are the answers a O la I l [Music] s an o 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 [Music] [Music] anyang 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 o you can think of this O sound as being similar to the one you'd hear in the beginning of the word up in English a O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A many first-time learners confuse this sound O with the other vowel O these two vowels can sound similar at first but practicing them often will help you to tell them apart let's hear these two sounds again o and again o And one more time o 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 ooh like the ooh sound in the English word glue let's hear it a few more times ooh ooh and one more time [Music] ooh 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 uh like the uh sound in the word good let's hear it a few more times uh uh and one more time [Music] uh 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 happens first here are a few examples of that consonant sa so saw s 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 [Music] on u B chim son noon shim ship sh sheep practice ractice 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 hung 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 [Music] anyang welcome to the fifth lesson in this series in the last part we learned 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 [Music] 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 e you can think of this e sound as being similar to the one you'd hear in the word egg let's hear it a few more times e e and one more time [Music] e 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 e like the e sound in the word egg let's hear it a few more times e a and one more time e so you might be thinking how do you tell the difference between the vowel we just learned E and this new one E fortunately although originally there is a slight difference between the two in how they're pronounced these days it's fine to simply pronounce them both the exact same way [Music] e 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 [Music] this vowel is pronounced ya like the ya sound in the word yan let's hear it a few more times ya ya and one more time [Music] yah 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 yah turned on its back practice writing this on your own a few times this vowel is pronounced yo like the yo sound in the phrase check it out yo let's hear it a few more times yo yo and one more time yo there's one more thing we need to cover about two of our four new vowels these vowels ya and yo when combined with this letter we previously learned will also create the sh sound that we saw with the vowel e here are a few examples she sha sh but this reason isn't random it's because the vowel ya is actually a combination of the vowel sound e and the vowel ah if you say e and a quickly it sounds like ya the same goes for yu yu is actually a combination of the vowel e and o when said quickly e becomes yo so by now we've covered a total of 10 consonants and 10 vowels we've also learned four syllable blocks so let's put everything together that we've learned and do some practice [Music] try reading these syllables on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers e L L shop Q hang m [Music] He ch men [Music] K 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 hung 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 [Music] anyang welcome to the sixth lesson in this series in the last part we learned 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 1/3 of the way down and 2/3 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 yaw you can think of this sound as a combination of the vowel e with the vowel o said quickly e would become yaw let's hear it a few more times y yaw and one more time y 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 1/3 of the way down the first line and 2/3 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 u you can think of this sound as a combination of the vowel e with the vowel u said quickly eu would become u let's hear it a few more times u you and one more time u 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 of it going from the top to the bottom practice writing this on your own a few [Music] 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 y you can think of this sound as a combination of the vowel e with the vowel e said quickly e would become y let's hear it a few more times yeah yeah and one more time [Music] yeah here's our last vowel to draw it first draw a vertical line from top to bottom then draw two short horizontal lines from 1/3 of the way down the first line and 2/3 of the way down to the right then draw a second vertical line touching the ends of the two short horizontal lines 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 y you can think of this sound as a combination of the vowel e with the vowel e said quickly yay would become y let's hear it a few more times yay yay and one more time yay and just like how we learn the vowels e and e can be pronounced the same way the same applies here you can pronounce both of the vowels y and y 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 too that other sounds can flow through it here's an example this word hanukin 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 hanukkin 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 gu comes before in so we can combine it to sound like this hukin 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 huggin 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 pegging [Music] pummin 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 [Music] practice try reading these syllables on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers yu Yun [Music] K yep [Music] yongo 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 [Music] welcome to the seventh lesson in this series in the last part we learned 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 blocks 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 syllables using four letters specifically this block is used with a vertical vowel let's take a look at a quick example anza this phrase means 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 syllable here a becoming cha so you could read the sentence like this 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 this sentence means I scratch my back here the first syllable in koyo is a four-letter syllable and this syllable uses the horizontal vowel uh 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 fourletter syllables and sounds that flow through the empty consonant try reading these examples on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers this means the documents I read yesterday this means bright day this means the price is [Music] good 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 when 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 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 consonant called li together with another consonant at the bottom of four letter syllables here are two examples most of the time whenever you see a syllable with a at the bottom together with another consonant the will not be pronounced so for the first one the will not be pronounced and you can simply read this syllable as sam and for the second one you can simply read it as h 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 eight which is pronounced the opposite way as y remember that this only applies when there is no empty consonant after a four-letter syllable that has a l 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 and we'll talk about those in a future episode so by now we've covered a total of 10 consonants 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 [Music] practice making your own four-letter syllables and reading them to yourself 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 about double consonants and I upload new videos to this channel every week so click subscribe and follow along [Music] anyang welcome to the eighth lesson in the series in the last part we learned 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 Hunga 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 are their 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 their 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 [Music] she 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 ca and ca the first one ca 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 tensed 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 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 ga over and over practice by adding another sound before ga or before any double consonant so instead of practicing ga you could add the sound a before it and practice pronouncing aa to say it you'll say ah then take a quick pause tensing your mouth followed by ca aa and one more time aa and here's what it would sound like if it were a normal consonant aa aa the same applies to the other four double consonants here are a few more examples of normal consonants and double consonants ta ta pa pa sa sa cha cha 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 ghee means energy or power while gi means a meal thai means the moon but d means daughter pang means a room but pang means bread sire means flesh but s means uncooked rice and tada 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 [Music] tang bing s Jim po she d gun d s so p j co s some bun g [Music] 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 hung 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 [Music] anyang 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 consonants strong consonants like double consonants will take a bit of practice to be able to pronounce and recognize them so let's get started there are four 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 ca and ca 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 ha but putting more force by doing so we'd be making a k sound so instead of the normal consonant ca we'd get the strong consonant ca 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 ta ta instead of the normal consonant which would be ta with the strong consonant we get ta 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 touch 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 its sound p instead of the normal consonant which would be pa with the strong consonant we get pa 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 its sound ta instead of the normal consonant which would be ta with the strong consonant we get cha it's much more of a ch sound in English than the normal consonant is in the last episode we learned 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 ca ca ca while these three sound 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 means fire however P means horns and P can mean grass or glue native Korean speakers can easily hear the differences between these sounds simply because they're 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 here are the answers [Music] key key ta t p cha cha cha co co to to po p po Jo 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 P key [Music] pip chi tongue kin p to p [Music] ch co q chin p k 10 t Cool 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 consonants remember that the key to learning hunger quickly is practicing it as much as possible and thanks for watching in the next lesson we'll learn about dip thongs 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 [Music] anyang welcome to the 10th lesson in the series in the last part we learned about strong consonants in this video we'll learn about a new type of vowel called dip thongs dip thongs are vowels but fortunately we don't have to learn anything new dip thongs are simply a combination of two vowels into one for example take the vowel sounds and ah currently we can make sounds like these co ca po pa however what if we combine the vowel sounds o and a together to combine them try simply saying them quickly a o w we'd get w the dip thong for wah would look like this you can see that it's simply the two vowels combined together into one this is what a dip thong 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 uh and ei it's pronounced u however this dip thong is an exception if you write this dip thong using the empty consonant you can say it as but if you use any other consonant there this dip thong is more often simply pronounced as e this makes it a lot easier to pronounce when speaking Korean here's an example he he this one is a combination of the sounds oo and o u it's pronounced w this one is a combination of the sounds u and e ui it's pronounced we [Music] we 5 years of French class and I can't even introduce myself this one is a combination of the sounds oo and e u it's pronounced [Music] ou this one is a combination of the sounds o and a as we learned o a wa it's pronounced wah wah this one is a combination of the sounds o and e we pronounced [Music] way although this one looks like a combination of the sounds o and e it's actually a combination of the sounds o and e [Music] oi it's pronounced as way you can pronounce this dip thong and the previous dip thong in the same way get it in the same way the way that these dip thongs work is simple but they'll still take practice to be able to recognize them quickly let's do some practice with these dip thongs try reading these examples on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers quinan congratulations we've now covered all of the consonants and vowels that are in hunger after this lesson practice by making your own syllables using dip thongs 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 [Music] anyang welcome to the 11th lesson in this series in the last part we learned about dip thongs 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 are 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 naj because that would be adding an extra vowel sound uh 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 n 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 not has one bottom consonant however before we go further remember how we learned about the empty consonant if we were to add another sound after this word such as e n would become a bit different this word would simply be naji 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 rule 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 tik 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 pretty simple right here are a few examples practice reading these on your own you can pause the video here here are the answers not m [Music] 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 would [Music] become and this word would become after all it would be pretty difficult to say a strong consonant at the end of a 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 uh and finally attach the consonant again at the bottom of that for example to say the name of this consonant attach e then attach uh and finally attach the consonant again this would become neon there are three exceptions to this which I've highlighted in the list let's say the names of each of the consonants t le [Music] mang ch 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 w would be this dip thong let's go back to the lesson and learn one more essential sound change rule this is an easy rule 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 here are the answers come on p my 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 hungu 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 [Music] anyang 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 consonants these are what's known as bass 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 consonants 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 consonant 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 hak this word means school actually before even worrying about this rule try to pronounce it yourself hak and then hak hako instead of saying just hako you're actually saying hako naturally just by saying hako you're already saying the sound change rule the first syllable h ends with a base consonant and the next syllable begins with a base consonant also kio this is what this 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 consonant 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 [Music] [Music] 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 whenever it comes before or after a base consonant it changes the base consonant into a strong consonant so for example take the word which is a verb that means to be good there's a he at the bottom of the first syllable and it's followed by a t so the dut changes into a t this becomes pronounced as cha for another example take the word pka which means peppermint the first syllable ends in the base consonant kak and is followed by a so it becomes a k this becomes pronounced as baka here are a few more examples you can pause the video here and here are the answers [Music] akada mada for the last one mutada 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 data so this syllable is pronounced as m making the entire word mada mada this one you can simply memorize separately for now here's one more sound change rule there are three rules in one first whenever you have a t before the sound e that e sound becomes pronounced as chi instead of t for example this word would be pronounced as kachi and not kati second whenever you have a tik before the sound he the he sound becomes pronounced as chi for example this word would be pronounced as kida and not katida and third whenever you have a tutt before the sound e the e sound becomes pronounced as gi for example this word would be pronounced as maji and not madi 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 rule in Korean also like we're changing the hard t sound to an easier ch sound and the same thing applies to the g we say the word drain with a j sound instead of drain which would sound a bit odd korean also changes the dut sound to an easier j sound here are a few examples you can pause the video here and here are the answers kuji maji mata the fourth one is just mata 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 sounds e and he it also works with the sounds yaw and h because the sounds yaw and ho originally come from e and he yaw is just a combination of the sound e and o and h is just a combination of the sound he and o here are two examples try to read them on your own you can pause the video here here are the [Music] answers kacho 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 Hunga 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 [Music] anyang 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 change 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 rule that we learned whenever you have a L that's this consonant followed by one of our five base consonants the base 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 at the bottom of the first syllable and it's followed by a base consonant a datable tang so the base consonant dut becomes a double consonant and the word becomes pronounced as Here are a few more [Music] examples 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 ol let's move on to our next sound change rule the consonants non and mium 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 m so for this rule whenever you have the consonant pup or the strong consonant pup followed by a nian or a mium it will become pronounced as a mium 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 mium here's a quick example here the syllable hop ends with a pup and it's followed by a non in the next syllable so the pup at the bottom of hop changes into a mium then we can read it normally as hamida here's some more examples [Music] [Music] imu let's go on to our next sound change rule whenever you have the consonant sh followed by one of the vowel sounds e ya yo or yu it will become pronounced as sh instead of its usual s sound for example this syllable is pronounced she and not c 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 a ya and the vowel yaw as e combined with o y as e combined with e y and so on but for other vowels such as a o and uh 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 sha shu here's our next rule for this rule whenever you have a pup that's followed by a lil the pup will become a mium and the lil will become a neon so take a look at this example here we have hop which ends in a pup the next syllable is b which starts with a le so because of this the pup at the end of hop will change to become a mium and the le at the beginning of lee will change to become a non sound this changes the hop to a hum sound and the lee to a n sound and together we get hi so although it's written as hi when we read it it will become here are a few more [Music] [Music] examples 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 kio instead whenever you have a kio that comes before a the kio will become a and the li will become a non for example in this word peek ends with a kio and the next syllable lee starts with a le so here the kio at the bottom will change to become an ing and the lil at the start of the next syllable will become a non when we make these changes we get pang and ni or together pangi here are a few more [Music] [Music] examples mango and that's all for this video remember that the key to learning hungu quickly is practicing it as much as possible thanks for watching and in the next lesson we'll learn the last few sound change rules 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 [Music] anyang 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 kio or its double or strong versions followed by either of the nasal consonants or mium the kio or its double or strong versions will become pronounced as so for an example is the word for the Korean language here we have the syllable cook which ends in the consonant kio and the next syllable after that starts with the consonant mium so we change the sound of the kio at the bottom of into an syllable becomes so together we get hung or read quickly here are a few more [Music] examples [Music] [Music] here's our next rule whenever you have a or a mium and it's followed by a lil the lil will become pronounced as a non for example the first syllable um ends in a mium and the second syllable begins with a so in this case the in the syllable will become a non and we get the sound here are a few more [Music] examples [Music] here's our next rule this rule also uses the nasal consonant neon 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 non that consonant will become pronounced as a non for a quick example take this word we previously learned that this is pronounced hamida because there's the consonant pup that's followed by a nian 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 humnida however take a look at this example here we have a chia at the end of the first syllable and the next syllable starts with a nian there isn't already a different rule that we've learned that we can use here with chia so we can apply this new rule in order to read it so for this word the chia changes and becomes a nan too and we get pa this rule makes pronouncing words like this possible here's another [Music] example we have the consonant shield at the bottom of the first syllable followed by a non so the shield becomes a nion and we get the pronunciation of mana here are a few more common examples [Music] moni this rule also applies to not only the consonant neon but to the other nasal consonant mium as well however these don't occur often with a mium so it's better to simply learn those few exceptions as they come up here's our next sound change rule whenever you have a nan before a lil or a lil before a nan the nian will become pronounced like a lil for example here we have a nian at the bottom of the first syllable hun the next syllable begins with a so the nian at the bottom of h changes into a and we get hulan hulan here are a few more examples [Music] bali sila [Music] poion wam now let's go to our final sound change rule 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 [Music] mean ha 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 neon and mium and the consonant le and that's all for this video congratulations you've now completed all of the letters and major sound change rules 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 [Music]