Korean Character Pronunciation

Jul 16, 2009 17:17

One of my French friends who is learning Korean sent me this list to help with pronunciation, so I thought I would post it here ^^ I don't know if such a list has already been posted, and if it has, feel free to delete this one ^^;

Korean Characters Pronunciation )

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squishibananas July 16 2009, 23:23:39 UTC
I'd agree with most of these.

The problem with trying to explain one language's sounds in another language is that that other language might not have all the sounds of the first language. I'm not criticising what you or your friend have compiled but you're going to run into trouble in the future if I don't say something now.

ㅔ/ㅐ are both pronounced as "e" now.
ㅖ/ㅒ are both pronounced as "ye" now.

There are two "o" when they are both different sounds. ㅓ is exactly like the "o" in "on". ㅗ is not a very common sound in American English (I had a look at your location on your info page) but in IPA it's represented by /oː/. Helpful if you know IPA ㄴㅇㄴ if you don't... look it up?

As I was telling Boyfriend yesterday, there's a big difference between:
돈줘 donjo ("give me some money")
던져 donjo ("throw it")

ㅈ is j, never g; ㅋ is k, never ch.

I'm 피니쉬.

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noir_keller July 16 2009, 23:37:52 UTC
Thank you ^^ I appreciate you taking the time to correct them~ Perhaps some of the sounds were wrong because of the difference in French/English pronunciation (seeing as some of the letters are pronounced differently in the languages and it WAS a French friend who sent the list ^^; )

I'll go and correct the list now~ Thanks again~

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squishibananas July 18 2009, 14:25:51 UTC
I'll admit I don't know anything about French linguistics. Some of the pairs just kind of looked like typical errors made by English learners, especially the ㅔ/ㅐ, e/ae thing. I tried to leave the consonants alone.

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madmouth July 17 2009, 07:51:38 UTC
as far as I can hear, ㅔ, ㅐ AND ㅖ are pronounced 'e'.

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squishibananas July 18 2009, 14:44:22 UTC

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