Unit 1 Lesson 2: More Basic Korean Letters
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, ...