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The Journey Down Here

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Borne out of sheer unconsciousness is my love for and interest in the Korean world. I vividly can remember how I drowned in awe of my first Korean Drama, titled "Empress Ki". I really couldn't fight the urge to learn a new language that time - as I normally would have done - as I watched the drama with my brothers. My major attraction was the language. I have heard a lot of languages being spoken, but the only intriguing one - in my view- is none other than Korean. The language sounds so sweet and cool. Hearing the characters dialogue in the language that was my object of admiration was somewhat blissful. Of a truth, to this day, the primary reason I watch Kdramas is the language. I really might wish to see my beloved actors and actresses in action, but the language is my drive🤗. My first attempt at learning Korean was to learn the alphabets. I was actually confused at the onset as to how to piece the letters together. I recalled how the Chinese characters looked ...
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Unit 1 Lesson 3: Korean Diphthongs: Complex Vowels

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In the previous lesson, you learned some more letters in the Korean alphabet. You also saw some crazy tables that presented some Korean syllables that we made by matching up Korean consonants and vowels. You may have noticed that this page is “wider” than a normal page here. Why is it like this? Well, we have an even crazier table to show you in this lesson, and we need all the space we can get. In this final lesson of Unit 0, you will learn the remaining vowels that you will need to be able to read Korean. Most of these letters are called “ diphthong s” – which is just a fancy way of saying that there are two vowels in one. After learning these final letters, you will be able to apply these letters to words and start learning simple sentences and grammatical formations. Luckily, all of the letters you will learn in this lesson are based off vowels that you have already studied. You should remember these letters from before: ㅏ = a ㅓ = eo ㅜ = u ㅗ = o There are four more ...
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Unit 1 Lesson 2: More Basic Korean Letters

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Author : howtostudykorean.com In our previous lesson, we studied the most basic letters in the Korean alphabet. There are still some more letters that you will need to wrap your head around before we go any further. Thankfully, now that you know the basics for making syllables, the rest is just a matter of learning more letters of the alphabet. The first new letter that you will learn is confusing at first but, again, is something you need memorize before you go any further. Our new letter is: ㅇ In the previous lesson, you learned that Korean syllables are always written in one of the following ways: You also learned that number 2 is ALWAYS a vowel and the other numbers are always consonants. Always always always. This means that Number 1 is always a consonant (as well as Number 3, if there is one). But does that mean that every syllable must start with a consonant? The answer: Sort of. When the letter ‘ㅇ’ is placed at Number 1 in the syllable it is silent, ...
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