PLEASE HELP! I mean i understand it but i got confused when we got to 볶음밥. Because in the nasalization video, you said that when any "ㄱ" sound (ㄱ,ㄲ,ㅋ, ㄹㄱ*) meets a nose sound(ㅁ,ㄴ,or ㅇ), the ㄱ changes its sound value to "ㅇ". So wouldnt the "ㄲ" in 볶 change into a "ㅇ" since ㄲ is a "ㄱ" sound and it came in contact with a nose sound? I know what you have is correct but why did that rule not apply to the word "볶음밥"?
@xXKibaForeverMoreXx nothing becomes ㅇ when ㅇ is a beginning consonant and there is a letter right before it, the sound of the ending consonant of the letter transfers into ㅇ therefore, 볶음밥 becomes 보끔밥 when pronouncing. ㅇ is a silent consonant. it's not something that becomes something. It's just the matter of the sound passing by because something that is transparent can't stop it
All of this spoken Korean could be understood intuitively. ex. "Break it" we pronounce it as something like "Bre~ kit". Nothing is very difficult or new in Korean. It is the natural way to speak when you conversate.
@Henry3838 keep your mouth shaped like the letter. like you're showing your teeth to everybody. keep your teeth clenched, then your tongue flat and parallel to the roof of mouth. DON'T MOVE ANYTHING, your tongue should be off from the bottom of the mouth, and not touching the top. just keep it floating in the middle, flat and parallel and straight. and try to say OOH (like Ooh lala in french or Boo in english without the B in the front.)
@NightFlyerDarcy yes. it's like Ryo but if it helps, the Korean ㄹ sound is nearly identical to the Spanish R sound (not the double trilled R.). Also, koreans tend to not use ㄹ with a lot of the vowels that make it sound hard. Only North Korea does that I believe.
@tokee1234567 Thank you for your detailed explanation. In the past few months of my studies my pronounciation has been improving and it's not as difficult for me now, but that does help a lot!
Do ALL(imeanALL) koreans write that way? i mean the proper way? say.. if they dont write the proper way would they get wrong? or do they have to? even for informal writings do they still have to use nasalization & patalization?
@youmeandh3r For informal writing, the younger generation has a tendency to write things the way they are pronounced. BUT for formal writing, correct spelling is important. Just to be clear: the above video explains how things will be pronounced. The correct spelling never change - only the pronunciation changes according to adjacent syllables.
how to talk, thanks so much for taking the time! :)
i rent a book recently at my library and really its doesnt even be compared to your teaching. youre so much better than the actual book! theyre really not showing us in it the bases and pronunciation and grammar as you do, I couldnt believe it when i finished
reading it. ure so great help thank so much again! ^_^
1. ㅇ is a silent consonant when placed at the beginning
2. it will take the form of whatever letter is in front of it (the bottom consonant of the previous letter. If there are 2 bottom consonant then the one on the right)
@tokee1234567 10x, my problem is that I really like korean,but the lessons are in english and I can't understand everything,because my english isn't that good as I need.But it's ok ,cause I improve it.
@lamilami1 종 implies (continued) so the 하루종일 means allday. and it's an exaggerated word since ppl use it to say "I've been working all day!!" so.. 하루 and 일 seem redundant but 일 is a good ending word. 하루 if used in a longer word always come at the front of the word
I'm korean but I've only been in koreal for elementary school. for some reason korean grammar is easy for me to understand and I still can read and speak korean fine..only thing I can't do well is word spacing and reading hard vocabs
@lamilami1 even though I'm not an expert in korean... I want to help ppl b/c unlike japanese, there are not that many support programs for ppl who want to learn korean, and I want to make it easier for ppl to understand the language.
@tokee1234567 thhhhx soooo muchhhh u're loveeee <3 by the way i'm from morocco xD i can help u learn frensh or arabic xD ""하루 if used in a longer word always come at the front of the word"
u wanted to say if used in a longder sentence?
and i still didn't get the diffenrence between 하루 and 일
@lunajulia88 it's 요 when people talk really fast pronounciations might sound a bit mingled.. and some koreans say 여 instead of 요 to sound cute but it doesn't happen that often
i was just wondering, so in hangul, there is no such thing as grammers right besides the question marks, periods, and commas. but basically, hangul does not use apostrophe s right??
@P3RSONALANG3L koreans use appostrophes in books when they're expressing thoughts. ex. 'I'm hungry' and "" quotation marks are used for speech in books "I hate you"
Was looking for transformation of these syllables (들 이) as in 남 자 들 이 요 리 를 해 요 (group or many men cooking). I am learning with Rosetta Stone. The narrator makes 들 이 sound like "d d". Does "ㄹ" carry over to the next syllable and transform to "ㄷ"? Romanized, the phrase would be "nam ja dd yo ri leul hae yo". Just wondering if there was another rule not covered in the video. TIA
It should sound 드리 NOT 드디. It seems that Korean ㄹ and ㄷ sounds similar to some English speakers. Actually I have a video on this topic, please watch my video 'Tricky Korean Pronunciation 이효리 vs. 이효디'
Thank you so much for the insight. Especially with the Italian part. Years ago I had to go to Rome without knowing any Italian Language but when I talk to local people, I soon found out that their pronunciation was very similar to Romanization, so I had a good time in Italy. Now it clicks!! We call it Romanization --> Roma --> Rome ^__^.
@BusyAtomdotcom@BusyAtomdotcom I don't know of it really fits in here but the word "romanization" has it's origin not in the word roma.
western europe and both americas use nowadays alphabets which derrived from the latin alphabet used by the romans. i think that's the reason why it's called "romanization"...
감사합니다! I really appreciate these. I am learning Korean in University (going to Seoul in the summer!!) and I really need all the practice I can get. These are an excellent review for me!!
I'd like to say you are a really great help for anyone seriously trying to pursue learning korean themself. I can't seem to be able to find the "how to read korean" section in your website. kamsahamnida
hi teacher...FIrst of all, I would like to commend you for the good work you put in your projects. I find them very helpful and I like your tone and your manner of teaching.
I'd like to ask about the example you gave about the batchim compound consonant bieup and shiot where shiot becomes double. I dont understand why it was made ssang shiot. Is there a rule for it?
I like your videos, but I am confused at the sequence I shoud follow as a beginner, what's the next video after "read korean words #4"? Would be great if there's a suggested sequence from you:) thank you in advance
Your site is good and I bet it is really helpful to lots of people who want to learn Korean. You've been doing excellent job! Really. I'd like to start with the grammar and in the meantime I still need to learn the vowels (sometimes they're cofusing :-)). Thanks again for your help.
Hi. After this video, which another video should I follow to learn further? Or, on your website, Learn Korean Project, after Read Korean Words should I go to Korean Phrases and then Serious Korean or to Basic Korean Practice? Thanks.
First of all I have to say sorry that my Korean Project is not is organized yet. Plus I could not make all the materials to complete learning yet. However, if you take my videos as references, I suggest Serious Korean first along with Korean Phrases. Serious Korean is more about sentence formation and mechanics of Korean Language whereas Korean Phrases is literally phrases, you can jump in without any previous knowledge.
To improve your Korean at this moment, I can suggest that get some basic Korean Learning book and let me know if you have any questions as you study or let me know how you are doing even if you don't have any questions. I wish I can provide all the materials in ordered way but simple NOT yet...
say, i switch my keyboard in put to write koraen letter, like 소ㅑㄴ, there i pressed the buttons t h i s, so, does it translate those to the proper korean word or?
Unfortunately, No. I have not seen such a function yet. It would be really nice if computer can do like that (which should be possible in theory but maybe not in reality yet).
thank you. this is really helpful! Do you know if there is an online dictionary with the written words AND also with their pronunciation? Like you show in your videos:
About 목요일[모교일] type of practice, my new video "Answers to problems 해답 (Korean #2)" might help. I am planning to put pronunciations for all future "Answers to problems 해답 (Korean # )" series. Thank you for the nice idea. 감사합니다.
I've been struggling with this for some time and had worked out some basic rules, but this makes it all so much clearer, and I've learnt a couple of new words as well! Thanks again busyatom!
PLEASE HELP! I mean i understand it but i got confused when we got to 볶음밥. Because in the nasalization video, you said that when any "ㄱ" sound (ㄱ,ㄲ,ㅋ, ㄹㄱ*) meets a nose sound(ㅁ,ㄴ,or ㅇ), the ㄱ changes its sound value to "ㅇ". So wouldnt the "ㄲ" in 볶 change into a "ㅇ" since ㄲ is a "ㄱ" sound and it came in contact with a nose sound? I know what you have is correct but why did that rule not apply to the word "볶음밥"?
xXKibaForeverMoreXx 1 day ago
@xXKibaForeverMoreXx
it did apply.... the ㄲ sound transferred to the silent consonant ㅇ
보끔밥 is how you would pronounce it.
tokee1234567 1 day ago
@tokee1234567 so if a ㄲ (or any ㄲ sound) sound meest a ㅇ, it just replaces it then the ㄲ itself becoming ㅇ?
xXKibaForeverMoreXx 17 hours ago
@xXKibaForeverMoreXx nothing becomes ㅇ when ㅇ is a beginning consonant and there is a letter right before it, the sound of the ending consonant of the letter transfers into ㅇ therefore, 볶음밥 becomes 보끔밥 when pronouncing. ㅇ is a silent consonant. it's not something that becomes something. It's just the matter of the sound passing by because something that is transparent can't stop it
tokee1234567 14 hours ago
@tokee1234567 ohhhh ok thank you very much! ^.^
xXKibaForeverMoreXx 13 hours ago
that's it for korean pronounciation just 4 videos about it? then what's my next step?
i want to know how to construct a sentece in korean is it like english the girl loves the boy or it's different?
butterflygirl134 4 months ago
@butterflygirl134 look for "korean sentence pattern 1 , 2 , etc. to start, maybe.
elefantpheathers 4 months ago
All of this spoken Korean could be understood intuitively. ex. "Break it" we pronounce it as something like "Bre~ kit". Nothing is very difficult or new in Korean. It is the natural way to speak when you conversate.
wrongforthat 6 months ago
I have problem pronouncing ㅡ, what can I do?
Henry3838 7 months ago
@Henry3838 keep your mouth shaped like the letter. like you're showing your teeth to everybody. keep your teeth clenched, then your tongue flat and parallel to the roof of mouth. DON'T MOVE ANYTHING, your tongue should be off from the bottom of the mouth, and not touching the top. just keep it floating in the middle, flat and parallel and straight. and try to say OOH (like Ooh lala in french or Boo in english without the B in the front.)
Then you'll get the sound
tokee1234567 6 months ago
Am I the only one who finds 료 hard to pronounce?
NightFlyerDarcy 8 months ago
@NightFlyerDarcy yes. it's like Ryo but if it helps, the Korean ㄹ sound is nearly identical to the Spanish R sound (not the double trilled R.). Also, koreans tend to not use ㄹ with a lot of the vowels that make it sound hard. Only North Korea does that I believe.
tokee1234567 6 months ago
@tokee1234567 Thank you for your detailed explanation. In the past few months of my studies my pronounciation has been improving and it's not as difficult for me now, but that does help a lot!
NightFlyerDarcy 6 months ago
Do ALL(imeanALL) koreans write that way? i mean the proper way? say.. if they dont write the proper way would they get wrong? or do they have to? even for informal writings do they still have to use nasalization & patalization?
youmeandh3r 8 months ago
@youmeandh3r For informal writing, the younger generation has a tendency to write things the way they are pronounced. BUT for formal writing, correct spelling is important. Just to be clear: the above video explains how things will be pronounced. The correct spelling never change - only the pronunciation changes according to adjacent syllables.
BusyAtomdotcom 8 months ago
I know the days of the week in korean, but now I can read/speak it better than befor ^^
liegjepiet 10 months ago
thanks a lot for the lessons!!
grammar is so important before learning
how to talk, thanks so much for taking the time! :)
i rent a book recently at my library and really its doesnt even be compared to your teaching. youre so much better than the actual book! theyre really not showing us in it the bases and pronunciation and grammar as you do, I couldnt believe it when i finished
reading it. ure so great help thank so much again! ^_^
nyago20 1 year ago
So, for this rule, the only exceptions are as stated on the previous video "Read Korean Words 3"?
McBliz 1 year ago
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what a stupid song
EbonyQueen999 1 year ago
sub please....
i don't understand T.T
nenghuizzz 1 year ago
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A great help. Thanks.
Lorenzokwon 1 year ago
man this is hard...I think that I'll never get it...
venssss 1 year ago
@venssss just know that
1. ㅇ is a silent consonant when placed at the beginning
2. it will take the form of whatever letter is in front of it (the bottom consonant of the previous letter. If there are 2 bottom consonant then the one on the right)
that's all there is to know in this entire video
tokee1234567 1 year ago
@tokee1234567 10x, my problem is that I really like korean,but the lessons are in english and I can't understand everything,because my english isn't that good as I need.But it's ok ,cause I improve it.
venssss 1 year ago
@venssss um I can write a bit of french, but sadly that's all I can do to help. at least you are learning both english and korean at the same time
tokee1234567 1 year ago
@tokee1234567 yes I do.And it is a lot of fun for me, I don't know would it be usefully for me in life ,or not but I definitely have fun. :D
venssss 1 year ago
for the days o the wee it always and with "일" and whe we want to say all day long it's " 하루종일" so what " 일" stands for?
than u a lloooot
lamilami1 1 year ago
@lamilami1 일 - "day" in terms of time. it also means "one" in sino korean and also "work"
tokee1234567 1 year ago
@tokee1234567 일 - "day" but in this sentence 하루종일 isn't 하루= day?
i think i'm so botherin uuu sorrrrrrry
by the way are u korean? ( such a babo question xD)
lamilami1 1 year ago
@lamilami1 종 implies (continued) so the 하루종일 means allday. and it's an exaggerated word since ppl use it to say "I've been working all day!!" so.. 하루 and 일 seem redundant but 일 is a good ending word. 하루 if used in a longer word always come at the front of the word
I'm korean but I've only been in koreal for elementary school. for some reason korean grammar is easy for me to understand and I still can read and speak korean fine..only thing I can't do well is word spacing and reading hard vocabs
tokee1234567 1 year ago
@lamilami1 even though I'm not an expert in korean... I want to help ppl b/c unlike japanese, there are not that many support programs for ppl who want to learn korean, and I want to make it easier for ppl to understand the language.
tokee1234567 1 year ago 2
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@tokee1234567 thhhhx soooo muchhhh u're loveeee <3 by the way i'm from morocco xD i can help u learn frensh or arabic xD ""하루 if used in a longer word always come at the front of the word"
u wanted to say if used in a longder sentence?
and i still didn't get the diffenrence between 하루 and 일
lamilami1 1 year ago
hi i just wanna ask does does this sentence should be read as
이제 일어나
E Je E Luhl Na? am i right? thx in advance..
wally0o0o0o0 1 year ago
i have a question. for ~요.... i've noticed it sounds like ~여 sometimes. which is phonetically correct?
lunajulia88 1 year ago
@lunajulia88 it's 요 when people talk really fast pronounciations might sound a bit mingled.. and some koreans say 여 instead of 요 to sound cute but it doesn't happen that often
tokee1234567 1 year ago
i was just wondering, so in hangul, there is no such thing as grammers right besides the question marks, periods, and commas. but basically, hangul does not use apostrophe s right??
P3RSONALANG3L 2 years ago
@P3RSONALANG3L koreans use appostrophes in books when they're expressing thoughts. ex. 'I'm hungry' and "" quotation marks are used for speech in books "I hate you"
tokee1234567 1 year ago
Was looking for transformation of these syllables (들 이) as in 남 자 들 이 요 리 를 해 요 (group or many men cooking). I am learning with Rosetta Stone. The narrator makes 들 이 sound like "d d". Does "ㄹ" carry over to the next syllable and transform to "ㄷ"? Romanized, the phrase would be "nam ja dd yo ri leul hae yo". Just wondering if there was another rule not covered in the video. TIA
ronc219 2 years ago
It should sound 드리 NOT 드디. It seems that Korean ㄹ and ㄷ sounds similar to some English speakers. Actually I have a video on this topic, please watch my video 'Tricky Korean Pronunciation 이효리 vs. 이효디'
BusyAtomdotcom 2 years ago
@ronc219
감 사 합 니 다
ronc219 2 years ago
why cant you just write it how you read it? agh!
SweetLove5263 2 years ago
even if i also think would be really easy this way...isn't the same for english?
so far the only language i know that is written as i read it is italian...(but that's because i don't know many languages XD)
minkios88 2 years ago
Thank you so much for the insight. Especially with the Italian part. Years ago I had to go to Rome without knowing any Italian Language but when I talk to local people, I soon found out that their pronunciation was very similar to Romanization, so I had a good time in Italy. Now it clicks!! We call it Romanization --> Roma --> Rome ^__^.
BusyAtomdotcom 2 years ago
@BusyAtomdotcom @BusyAtomdotcom I don't know of it really fits in here but the word "romanization" has it's origin not in the word roma.
western europe and both americas use nowadays alphabets which derrived from the latin alphabet used by the romans. i think that's the reason why it's called "romanization"...
i should know...i even got my latinum
ssi1991 1 year ago
감사합니다! I really appreciate these. I am learning Korean in University (going to Seoul in the summer!!) and I really need all the practice I can get. These are an excellent review for me!!
kakera 2 years ago
@kakera Great! I hope you have a good time in Korea this summer.
BusyAtomdotcom 2 years ago
really? im going to work there after i get my degree... so i want to perfect if possible my korean.
P3RSONALANG3L 2 years ago
what is the meaning of songsaengnim??
QuEen0327 2 years ago
@QuEen0327 선생님 means 'teacher' and it is in a honorific form.
BusyAtomdotcom 2 years ago
annyeong! BusyAtom,
I'd like to say you are a really great help for anyone seriously trying to pursue learning korean themself. I can't seem to be able to find the "how to read korean" section in your website. kamsahamnida
skuxsarah 2 years ago 9
@skuxsarah
Ah, actually I put them under 'pronunciation rules' in Grammar. Sorry for changing without any notice. It was kind of a new year thing.
BusyAtomdotcom 2 years ago
i really learned a lot from your teachings... thanks a lot... hope you'll continue what you are doing......
ham si ham na da!
sweetyblade08 2 years ago
he teaches the fun way .. lol !
sarangheyo ... songsaengnim!
Trixter003 2 years ago
hi teacher...FIrst of all, I would like to commend you for the good work you put in your projects. I find them very helpful and I like your tone and your manner of teaching.
I'd like to ask about the example you gave about the batchim compound consonant bieup and shiot where shiot becomes double. I dont understand why it was made ssang shiot. Is there a rule for it?
nadinestube 2 years ago
I like your videos, but I am confused at the sequence I shoud follow as a beginner, what's the next video after "read korean words #4"? Would be great if there's a suggested sequence from you:) thank you in advance
evelynhe1 2 years ago
Sorry, I don't have a plan for the next one yet.
Hopefully it will come soon.
Please remind me once again.
감사합니다.
BusyAtomdotcom 2 years ago
Your site is good and I bet it is really helpful to lots of people who want to learn Korean. You've been doing excellent job! Really. I'd like to start with the grammar and in the meantime I still need to learn the vowels (sometimes they're cofusing :-)). Thanks again for your help.
toobjoon 2 years ago 17
Hi. After this video, which another video should I follow to learn further? Or, on your website, Learn Korean Project, after Read Korean Words should I go to Korean Phrases and then Serious Korean or to Basic Korean Practice? Thanks.
toobjoon 2 years ago
First of all I have to say sorry that my Korean Project is not is organized yet. Plus I could not make all the materials to complete learning yet. However, if you take my videos as references, I suggest Serious Korean first along with Korean Phrases. Serious Korean is more about sentence formation and mechanics of Korean Language whereas Korean Phrases is literally phrases, you can jump in without any previous knowledge.
BusyAtomdotcom 2 years ago
To improve your Korean at this moment, I can suggest that get some basic Korean Learning book and let me know if you have any questions as you study or let me know how you are doing even if you don't have any questions. I wish I can provide all the materials in ordered way but simple NOT yet...
감사합나디.
BusyAtomdotcom 2 years ago
say, i switch my keyboard in put to write koraen letter, like 소ㅑㄴ, there i pressed the buttons t h i s, so, does it translate those to the proper korean word or?
Kudiz 3 years ago
Unfortunately, No. I have not seen such a function yet. It would be really nice if computer can do like that (which should be possible in theory but maybe not in reality yet).
Sorry.
감사합니다.
BusyAtomdotcom 3 years ago
Not really. It will be nice to have one. I will try to put them whenever I have a chance throughout my site. 감사합니다
BusyAtomdotcom 3 years ago
thank you. this is really helpful! Do you know if there is an online dictionary with the written words AND also with their pronunciation? Like you show in your videos:
목요일 [모교일]
I couldn't find anything alike...
harunapi 3 years ago
About 목요일[모교일] type of practice, my new video "Answers to problems 해답 (Korean #2)" might help. I am planning to put pronunciations for all future "Answers to problems 해답 (Korean # )" series. Thank you for the nice idea. 감사합니다.
BusyAtomdotcom 3 years ago
nice,gamsahamnida or komapta
lwiza2000 3 years ago
고맙습니다 [gomapseumnida].
BusyAtomdotcom 3 years ago
I like it. It is very nice. Thank you for the time and the good job!!!
fuad1444 3 years ago
Thank you. 감사합니다.
BusyAtomdotcom 3 years ago
I've been struggling with this for some time and had worked out some basic rules, but this makes it all so much clearer, and I've learnt a couple of new words as well! Thanks again busyatom!
kingmandazi 3 years ago
Thank you King. Cheers!.
감사합니다.
BusyAtomdotcom 3 years ago
Also, please let me know if I am missing anything. 감사합니다.
BusyAtomdotcom 3 years ago