Lesson One: The Korean Alphabet (한글)

A brief run-through of the Korean alphabet and some basic explanations of letters. Sorry for the poor video quality.

For further study on the pronunciation of Korean letters, I recommend pages 15-19 of the Berlitz Korean Concise Dictionary, Berlitz Publishing/APA Publications GmbH & Co. Verlag KG Singapore Branch, Singapore, 2007.

Also, for those who wish to write Korean and wish to learn the proper stroke orders of Korean letters, I recommend pages 2-9 of Kim Inseok's Colloquial Korean - A Complete Language Course, Routelegde publisher's, 1996.

For a more in-depth look at the Korean alphabet and composition, you may want to visit http://langintro.com/kintro/toc.htm

Please comment and/or rate! I'm an amateur YouTuber so please don't expect too much from me xD

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[gyoshilxxidea]

wrong order :( ㅎ is aspirated.. perhaps the most aspirated lol

ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ ㄹ ㅁ ㅂ ㅅ ㅇ ㅈ ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅎ

[teenamja]

@gyoshilxxidea Thanks for your comment, I appreciate all constructive criticism. The reason I placed the ㅎ with the singular consonants was because it does not visually resemble any other singular consonants - i.e. ㅊ resembles ㅈ, ㅋ resembles ㄱ and so on. Therefore my video is not in the 'official' alphabetical/dictionary order. Thank you also for writing the apparent 'official' or dictionary order of the alphabet, though that should then include also the ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ and ㅆ.

[gyoshilxxidea]

@teenamja Well, if you were going for that, the "singular consonants" should've been ㄱ, ㄴ, ㅁ, ㅅ, and ㅇ because ㅎ comes from (and thus visually resembles) ㅇ, ㄷ comes from ㄴ, ㅂ comes from ㅁ, ㅈ comes from ㅅ, etc. I'm not trying to argue with you, I just wanted to point this out.

[teenamja]

@gyoshilxxidea Aha, I think you're going back to the linguistic origins of each letter, whereas I just saw ㄱ, ㄴ,ㄷ,ㄹ,ㅁ,ㅂ,ㅅ,ㅈ,ㅇ and ㅎ as 'singular', ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ and ㅆ as 'double', and ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ and ㅊ as 'aspirated'.

What I was trying to say was: ㄱ resembles ㅋ, k and k' may be learned together, and because ㅂ resembles ㅍ, b and p' may be learned together, and so on.

I didn't see it that helpful to point out that ㅈ comes from ㅅ, ㅂ from ㅁ etc, as I didn't think that it really helps with pronunciation.

[teenamja]

@teenamja Though that is another interesting topic relating to Hangul (the throat/mouth/tongue positions) and its 'origins', but I should think that that'd be another debate for another video :)

[dmhily1711]

완전 최고다!!!

어떻게 이런걸 만들었어?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[teenamja]

웹캄으로 만들었어 형 ㅋㅋ 괜찮아?;; 가르치기 힘들지;; ^^;

[Prone2Shadows]

Thanks for these vids, helping me a lot.

[Alee15Chile]

SS501 !!!!!! LOS AMO

[animegirl2245]

Your eyes are intense :-) nice video, it helped a lot

[jaylias]

i have to echo the comments here, thanks alot for helping me out with Korean!! It's so fun to learn Hangul! I'm a complete novice but am really enjoying using symbols to write :)

it took me a while but deciphering '오마이갓' was a fun exercise! and saying 갓 really helps to practise pronounciation of the soft t

[jejeforka]

@FarewelI ㄹ sounds like a 'R' and 'L' of Spanish. The difference between ㅜ and ㅗ; ㅜ sounds like 'u' (/woo/) and ㅗ sounds like 'o'

[holyssun]

awesome teacher !