Unit 1 Lesson 3: Korean Diphthongs: Complex Vowels
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 ...