Korean Alphabet

[WesleyMLincoln]

@dreamer4234 - You really are a dreamer. That comment made no sense at all. Just because the alphabets are pronounced like English alphabets doesn't mean they are used like English alphabets. You've got a long way to go. A long, long way.

[YASIcee]

tHIS IS SO EASY, EASIER THAN SOME OTHER LANGUAGES. IT TAKES LONGER TO LEARN PASHTU. BUT THIS ONE JUST REQUIRES MORE PRONOUNCIATIONS.

[AkitenV]

truman show song at the background!:O

[trollworkout]

HOLY SHIT. so simple.

[megan9522]

Thank you!!!:D

[megan9522]

Thanks this helped a lot!!!:D

[chicabuenaonda1]

muchas gracias por el vídeo..¡¡¡ fighting

[mart0380]

/like

Also, requesting bgm!

[MrRadderly]

If this is not true, it would be retarded



[Stateoftention]

its such a tonal based language aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

[Rhariuchi]

Very well done.  Thankyou.

[animemangaluv13]

korean is already hard...:( and i thought kpop and kdramas would help.

[cheesecake007]

1:00 the ohhhh

[TheBathroombear]

What's the difference between the 'ae' and 'e' sound?

[MAAMEEMAAA]

ty

[dreamer4234]

ㅍㄷ교 ㄷ옃ㅁ샤ㅐㅜ미! (My first Korean comment)

[ALO5O1]

I've been trying very hard to learn Korean but can someone please explain to me whats the Shwa at 1:55. ^.^

[butterflygarden1201]

This film helps me learn Koren a lot. Now I know basic vowels. Looking forward to your film about "consonant "..

[frce68]

Friend = [frend] ㅍ 렌 ㄷ -> 프렌드 but ㅍ,ㄷspeak more clearly than English, so become clear 3 syllables.

[frce68]

ㅓ [uh], ㅡ[ə] ??....ㅓ[uh,ə] is right, but, 'ㅡ' is [eu] , for example, 'ㅡ' sound at 'Friend[프렌드]' and you missed some vowels 'ㅟ''ㅞ''ㅚ''ㅙ''ㅘ' each 'wi''we''oe''wae''wa' ,anyway, you made a nice lesson for Korean vowels

[theevilcarebears]

This is very helpful :D waiting for the next one

[jukka4president]

its an interesting system

[000kyoto000]

nice . . we need more

[plutoend99]

This is the first Asian language that I am learning.. How similar/different is it to other Asian languages? are they all based on these simple 'letters' that you combine and rotate?

[jujusilla]

@plutoend99 Short answer: No.

[ilovemywii247]

@plutoend99

No. Unfortunately not. I believe japanese has an alphabet as well, but chinese has absolutely no organised system of an alphabet (one that you can write words if you can say it.) Chinese is much memorization on how words look. I hope that helped!

[ripmichaeljackson186]

OMIGOD THAT WAS SUPER EASY LOOOL! :O

[weiskitty79]

I really liked this one. Korean is a new hobby of mine now! :)

[SatukiasChannel]

Korean is so much more difficult than japanese ._.

[kdw4012]

@SatukiasChannel

but japanes must remember chinese letter.

also kroean has chinese letter, but it is covered by kroean alphabet

[charbonou2]

Where's Lesson 2 ??

[bhimsaru2041]

plesae watch !!!

[fireicewind1]

I am sorry but it had an English accent u shouldn't really spell it in English I'll just say it with and English accent that is the way most Koreans learn and they aren't always perfect

[SilverParker20]

the "have a nice day" part scared me! O: lol! okay, its a good video anyway! thankyou! cheerios (;

[NormanSykes]

@SilverParker20 Lmao! He does sound rather creepy saying that, don't he? lol

[MsNintendoboy]

this is more confusing than japanese



[slytherkatify]

@MsNintendoboy really?! i find korean very easy compared to other types of writing.. even easier than english!! but that's just me. :)

[Bee22553]

thanks for posting! you have a nice day too:)

[slytherkatify]

umm the pronounciation is quite bad....

[NormanSykes]

@slytherkatify I thought 'Ae' was pronounced "ay" as in Hay

[slytherkatify]

@NormanSykes not quite... it's a bit like eh but you have to hear a native korean saying it...

[NormanSykes]

@slytherkatify a-ha...but for example, Hondae in Seoul is proncouced 'Hon-day', no?

[slytherkatify]

@NormanSykes nearly... but listen, you can't write the exact pronounciation in english letters!! you need to hear it being said, as i said before. it wouldn't be day like we say it though, it would be softer.. again, depends on your accent... i have a scottish accent so i say "day" with a -say- a less soft pronounciation, if you get what i mean.

[NormanSykes]

@slytherkatify cheers for that...I am a Londoner, so I guess you know how us peeps 'down south' sound like! lol...maybe I should hire you as my Korean teacher! lol

[slytherkatify]

@NormanSykes lol that's all right~ yeah it would definetly not be like you guys say "day" then lol yeah... maybe I should go around teaching people haha :D

[byronduhgamer]

SO MANY WORDS IN MY HEAD!!!!! >.<

[kofum2002]

i think japanese is easier to speak and less complicated except for their kanji alphabet

[tokee1234567]

@kofum2002 yes. japanese has less pronunciation than Korean, esp on the consonant parts..

[JanuaryBlack1996]

i thought there were 12 vowles

[giannivee1]

it is a great beginning in the korean vowel vocabulary, thanks for doing this, i would like to see much more, You are a superbly wonderful teacher who has found a way to simplify the vowels for me, thanks so much, gianni

[tuva600]

The Æ Sound.

[fatmandabomb18]

thank you!!!! i guess i'm more of a visual learner. thank yoooooooooooooou

[siwon333]

영상 잘봤습니다.

ㅡ(e) 발음이 정확하지 않네요. 영상의 '으' 발음은 아래아'ㆍ' 발음처럼 하셨네요. 정확하게 '으'라고 수정하셔야겠습니다.

[StratocastFloyd]

Anyone else notice, that with Korean being so different you forget everything after you learn it.

[SxySkySxy]

Maybe it's just me but every time he explains the letters, i keep getting lost and keep expecting the typical English alphabet...:( I'm too dumb to learn this and its frustrating..

[92GodLover]

And oh! One last one ㅡ is pronounce something like the "e" in Hanyu Pinyin. Hanyu Pinyin: "a", "o", "e", "i", "u", "ü".. Is still a great video though. Hope this helps people to even more understand what these vowels should be pronounce. :) No offence. :)

[92GodLover]

Erm.. I realized, the ㅓ ㅗ ㅕ ㅛ pronunciation is wrong.. ㅓ should pronounce as "or" and ㅗ should pronounce as the English alphabet "O". As for ㅕ is pronounce as "your", and ㅛ is pronounce as "yo".

[acat89]

The music makes me feel so epic learning Korean.

[plmnbvcxz1234567890]

the music was extremely distracting

[MrBp42]

감사합니다

[junsatz]

Thank you for your Korean lecture. :)

[TheAmbitious10]

OMG :'( it's hard

[twinkyona]

you sound very wrong when you pronounced ㅒ and ㅖ totally wrong :(

[zaifel201]

@twinkyona i'm a beginner to this and i could use some help. how should  ㅒand ㅖ be pronounced? thanks=)

[jaradori]

@zaifel201

same things.

YEAH~!!!

예!!!ㅋㅋ

[zaifel201]

@jaradori i see. thank you! kamsahamnida!

[iLuvBigBang93]

Thank youu!! *.* Love this language! <3

[elainelau122]

great lesson

[elainelau122]

great lessor

[mnfdrums]

ur mah hero

[zulmme]

what a geometric alphabet :) I guess learning Korean can be frustrating for a non-asian, especially with a writing system so complex.

[chikiyang]

I thought it was 10 vowels and 14 consonants?!....

[tokee1234567]

@chikiyang those are basic vowels and consonants. there are like 5 extra vowels, and like 4 extra consonants. there are also bottom consonants where 2 consonants are combined and squished together, and there are 5 of them I think.

[ktulur]

I just spit on my screen from that "HAVE A NICE DAAAY"

[shugochara369]

Sexual Sounds At The Beggining ;D <3

[magix470]

tetris!!!

[theBlipPower]

@magix470 yep!

[alle144]

my mind's doing the same rotations as the yahyuyee gosh this is toooo confusing. You went by that too friggin quickly I might as well have not seen this video coz i got nothing from it.

[saber1992]

@alle144

take it like school, copy down what he says and repeat it in your head.

[fifeg]

nice way of thinking about memorizing the different sounds but....sorry dude...you sound like a typical native english speaker trying to pronounce korean sounds with an english accent....a for effort... !

[JenniiiferP]

ㅡ sounds like 'euh' ... its hard to decribes as writing in Eng.. cuz Eng doesnt have this sound.. T.T

[ind1484]

very good lesson,,,presenting so simple,,,i never thought that it would be so easy,,,

[jasonhan5637]

nice vidio. I love my language especially writing.

Thanks for uploading this.

[hellojunej]

'ㅡ' is not uh...

틀렸어!!! it means 'your wrong!'

[MissInformati0n]

this is such a bad video you are doing an american accent on the korean and completely morphing the sounds.

[jaradori]

ㅁㅁㅛㅁㅁ

ㅁㅁㅗㅁㅁ

ㅕㅓㅢㅏㅑ

ㅁㅁㅜㅁㅁ

ㅁㅁㅠㅁㅁ



[jaradori]

ㅏ ㅑ ㅓ ㅕ ㅣ

ㅗ

ㅛ

ㅜ

ㅠ

ㅡ

[pyeon]

A lot of chop sticks arranged up and down....

[crezie100]

OHHH...I LOVE IT...I AM LEARNING KOREAN WORD ..IT CAN HELP ME VERY MUCH..

[filipinofear13]

how you say candyshine on japan and azncandy?

[bjan999]

but why the music? :(

[warriorskk1]

Grawr. This is confusing. -_-

[jihi700]

your 'ㅡ' sounds like 'uh', it's rather supposed to sound like 'e' in Chinese 汉语拼音.

[citricacid001]

This was very helpful however if you make another one could u give more examples of words that have the sound in them. like when u said ah like in "pat" it was really helpful

Thanks :)

[TheVHDL]

암 티칭 마이 킫 하우투 륃 ....

[haru6161]

@TheVHDL

you mean

i'm teaching my kid how to read ? 

[esungkoo]

@TheVHDL  WOW

[rainywrk]

your ways make me remember it easier. thanks

[TheMichelleyoo]

So the 'ㅡ' in korean sound like 'uh' 2?

[tokee1234567]

@TheMichelleyoo

it's eu... it's really hard to explain in english. have your mouth look similar to ㅡ. the sound is b/w the oo sound and the ee....

uh sound is ㅓ

[unconventional36]

Thank you. This simplifies it a bit.

[unconventional36]

Thank you! I have hope now. You simplified it and explained it so well.

[intellaricovision]

This is an amazing alphabet...it all makes sense. Until today, I never knew that the Korean language had an alphabet.

[TakahashiMaikeru]

Uh... No. First of all, ㅐ is [ɛ], which is closer to an "eh" sound than an "ae" sound, which is [æ]. Also, ㅡ is [ɯ], which is an unrounded "oo" sound, NOT a schwa, which is [ə] and makes an "uh" sound.

Just... tell the truth. Also, everything beginning in "y" [j] is actually more like a semi-vowel or a diphthong (in some dialects) than a real vowel.

[BlueHikari354]

Thank you so much! This really helped!

[Gundamlockon00]

Thats the song from the patriot in the back. Anyway he probably confused the vowles with the consonants.

[Richi4391]

YOUR WRONG some of those arnet even vowels

[Sthorned]

Honestly it is great tutorial! but i cant get the differences of other stuffs like "yeh" to "yuh" in terms of pronunciation

[TakahashiMaikeru]

@Sthorned "yeh" is the same sound as in the English word "yell." "Yuh" is the same sound as the English words "yup" or "yum." If you can't hear the difference, then you should listen to your own language a bit more.

[Phantomagia]

thx robin woo

[tahiyyati]

this is really easy...wow i am imprest haha

[penisuganai]

end of this video= random : )

[ultradumbass]

holy shit that was easy. easier than english!

[354sweetmimi]

is so fun to learn korean

[Luvkpops]

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ it's funny

[KAT060085]

Thank yu sooo much

[LikeWtfItsSarah]

o.o

I don't know if its just how its presented in this video, but it looks kind of hard to remember.

but at least Korean only has 1 alphabet. I'm sticking to Japanese, it has 3 alphabets V_V

[SMGJohn]

You only need to learn two alphabets in Japanese, Hatakana and Hiragana

Although Hangul the Korean alphabet is more advanced as you put the the symbols into blocks.

[LikeWtfItsSarah]

@SMGJohn Actually, its *Katakana and hirigana, both consisting of 46 letters, and then kanji, consisting of 10,000 letters and very complicated symbols. Kanji can throw you completely off when you're trying to read a sentence in japanese.

Anyways, when you say they have to put the letters in blocks, do you mean as in each block is a word?

[SMGJohn]

Well sry for my writing wrongs anyway no each block is not words but means stuff like

if you put L and a A together it reads LA the rues are following.

Consonant + Vowel

And can be

Consonant + Vowel + Consonant

Consonant + Vowel + Vowel + Consonant + Consonant

한글 HANGEUL

[jaradori]

ㄱㄴㄷㄹㅁㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ

ㄱㅋ　ㄲ

ㄴㄷㅌㄹ　ㄸ

ㅁㅂㅍ　ㅃ

ㅅㅈㅊ　ㅆ ㅉ

ㅇㅎ

[jaradori]

ㅏ　ㅑ ㅓ　ㅕ ㅗ　ㅛ ㅜ　ㅠ ㅡ ㅣ ㅐ/ㅔ　ㅒ/ㅖ ㅘ ㅝ ㅙ/ㅚ/ㅞ ㅟ ㅢ

[Aimeex12]

how accurate is your pronounciation. Are you korean?

[shnnyl]

lol, even if his pronounciation isn't accurate... it's helpful in understanding and remembering the hangul...

[xOsaloOmOx]

T.T am going crazy trying to get the hang of it . .

i started reading " teach yourself Korean - Mark Vincent & Jaehoon Yeon " . . when i got to ( ㅐ , ㅒ , ㅔ , ㅖ , ㅘ , ㅙ , ㅚ , ㅝ , ㅞ , ㅟ , ㅢ ) i kinda lost track -.- . . and the ( ㅋ, ㅌ,  ㅊ, ㅍ )

the explained them by saying ( they are K, T, P, & Ch . . made with a puff of air , or an aspirated versions ) ! but now when i looked at wikipedia they R totally different !

XS

[SMGJohn]

There is no R in Hangul only L.

[horlale]

great stuff. thanks!

[Cambodia69]

Now I can go out and pick up some fine Korean women with this : ) Oh, but wait, I don't make enough money : (

I hate you Nicolas Cage!

[zyyini]

@Cambodia69 what does nicholas cage have to do with this???

[Cambodia69]

@zyyini Have you ever seen his wife, Alice Kim?

[zyyini]

@Cambodia69 no but still cant get it...

[Khyrid]

I don't get the phonics for the: _

[031191nancy]

@Khyrid It's like the "oo" part in "good". Hope that helped.

[glenda0023]

lol this lesson is cool to me lol

[DISTURBED1998]

thank you, makes it easer when you put it in that context of rotation of symbol. komapsimneda

[olegsnkcclaw08]

Komapsimneda?? or Kamsahamnida!

[LvChineseGrl]

you r funny thx for sharing.

[Roxanne5566]

hm..... what is the difference between ㅏ(ah) and ㅓ(uh) ? they sound similar to me.......

[eye96rain]

ㅓsounds like (eo)

kind of..

ㅏ sounds like american a..(a)

[ruthxcore10]

thank you

[gorgeous23mimi]

Thanks for this vid!

[pcarbon02]

Wow! I am really excited if it that easy! This lesson is great - it communicates the simplicity of the vowels beautifully!!

[XkupochanX]

so ㅓand ㅡ sound almost the same right? they do in this video.

[DEdesigns57]

@XkupochanX Im wondering the same thing they sound the same to me, let me know of its otherwise,

[cannishgirl]

The way he phrased it made them the same, but I think ㅡ is more like the "u" in "put", whereas ㅓ is the schwa sound

[tokee1234567]

ㅓ is uh, like how you say uhhhhmmmm when you can't think of anything to say.. and ㅡ is hard. it's like euh.

[r3bol]

Interesting choice of background music.

...and a very cool demo.

[allase]

easier but still difficult...

[decokorea]

I'm korean but I did not know these logical teaching way. Surprise!

[HyongSuka]

That was so helpful. Great job.

...but what about the consonants?!

Kam.sah.nida

[AiwAnTahZaiU]

..-hayy...confusing....

[ModernitySlays]

nice video, thanks

[Yungbunz4]

um yeah I thought it was 14 consonants and 10 vowels. forget youtube I think i'm going to get a teacher because every video say different things. It's so confusing

[decokorea]

But...the grammer of Korean...difficult..right,

[albertjeong]

@Yungbunz4 The last four mentioned here ㅐㅔㅒㅖ are yes part of vowels. but not main ones. 14 vowels is right. 10 are the mostly used ones.

[AkaoKiyotsu]

@Yungbunz4 No... every video says 14 vowels and not 14 consonants, it was a misconception of your mind. It´s alright though, it was a small misconception :)

[gogosma]

@Yungbunz4

the Hangul consists of 40 letters. It has 21 vowels and 19

consonants. and people just shorten or legnthen it to what

they think is fit. and i agree which buy a book get a tutor . youtube should really only be used for extra help. as i can confuse the hell out of you.

[Sp3ctre18]

@Yungbunz4 Does english have 5 vowels, or 18? They're all "correct"; just depends how you want to count them. Look at the first screen that shows up with vowels, at 0:18. 14 vowels right? That's THE complete list. But some people won't count those last 4 because they're like "complex" vowels; thus, 10 vowels.

I prefer complete lists, cause like you said, it gets confusing / hard if some people don't show all. So I would say, Korean has 14 vowels and 19 consonants (to include the tense ones).

[Sp3ctre18]

@Sp3ctre18 oy, I forgot, even with saying 14 vowels, that's not including the ones that start with "w." Including those is probably how gogosma got 21 vowels.

[spiffylouise]

@Yungbunz4 10 vowels with the more difficult ones not included

[bonitabels]

@Yungbunz4 there are easy vowels and complicated vowels i think.

[Vjrhuel4]

@Yungbunz4 yeah me too i'm so confused

[theBlipPower]

@Yungbunz4 you don't have to be confused. the vowels of korean is mechanized just like LEGO. just add one vowel to another one. for example, "ㅏ + - = ㅑ " . basically, there are 8 vowels, ㅒ & ㅖ are the results from "ㅏ+ㅣ" and " ㅕ+ㅣ". so think them extra vowels.

[hemidemisemihandey]

how do we write "f", "v" and "y" in hangul>>??

[trendygirl08]

very very ty,.재미가 참 만아요 :)

[IpodIcs07]

hahah..it's weird that i kinda understand korean but dunno how to understand the alphabet when you write..tnx for uploading this..it's really a big help..

[kockgunner]

So many different videos saying the vowels sound like different things. argghh!

[nlturkski]

Yeah, this is my problem too...

[charlizerester84]

Thanks! Have a nice day too!

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