Korean/RWP/Lesson 6

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This lesson is not yet complete. The lesson plan says it should introduce "doubled letters" (ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, and ㅉ) and "the remaining diphthongs" (ㅚ, ㅟ, ㅢ, ㅘ, ㅝ, ㅙ, and ㅞ). Help complete it by reading Korean/Writing lessons plan or clicking "edit".

Welcome back! This is the sixth lesson of "Learn to read, write and pronounce Korean". This lesson covers the remaining jamo, all just variations on the letters you already learned.

Contents 1 The diphthong ㅟ (wi) 1.1 Exercise 2 The vowel ? (?) 2.1 Exercise 3 End of lesson 6

[edit] The diphthong ㅟ (wi)

The vowel ㅟ is pronounced like the u in the French word chute (IPA: [ y ]) and transcribed as wi. Its appearance shows that it was originally a diphthong of ㅜ (u) and ㅣ (i).

Letter (jamo):	ㄷ	ㅣ	=>	뒤
	ㅜ
Romanization:	d w	i		dwi
Pronunciation:	[ d y ]			[ dy ]

[edit] Exercise

The following Korean words contain ? (?). Guess what the words mean. Click "Show" to check your answers, as usual.

You can check your answers by clicking at "Show" above, as usual.

[edit] The vowel ? (?)

File:? (?) stroke order.png

? (?) stroke order

Sound sample of ? (?) (help·info)

The first new letter is the vowel ? (?):

Letter (jamo):	?
Pronunciation:	[?]

The vowel ? is pronounced like the ? in ???. As its shape indicates, it was originally a digraph of ? and ?, but today it is pronounced like ?.

Letter (jamo):	?	=>	?
	?
Romanization:	? y?		??

[edit] Exercise

The following Korean words contain ? (?). Guess what the words mean. Click "Show" to check your answers, as usual.

You can check your answers by clicking at "Show" above, as usual.

[edit] End of lesson 6

Congratulations! You have now learned the whole Korean alphabet! If you'd like to review or brush up, visit the course summary.

Consonant jamo

Basic 예사소리	Letter (jamo)	ㄱ	ㄴ	ㄷ	ㄹ	ㅁ	ㅂ	ㅅ	ㅇ	ㅈ	ㅎ
	Romanization Pronunciation	g or k [g] or [k]	n [n]	d or t [d] or [t]	r or l [ɾ] or [l]	m [m]	b or p [b] or [p]	s [s]	- or ng silent or [ŋ]	j or ch [ʥ] or [ʨ]	h [h]
Aspirated 거센소리	Letter (jamo)	ㅋ		ㅌ			ㅍ			ㅊ
	Romanization Pronunciation	k [kʰ]		t [tʰ]			p [pʰ]			ch [ʨʰ]
Tense 된소리	Letter (jamo)	ㄲ		ㄸ			ㅃ	ㅆ		ㅉ
	Romanization Pronunciation	gg or kk [k͈]		dd or tt [t͈]			bb or pp [p͈]	ss [s͈]		jj [ʨ͈]

Vowel jamo

Letter (jamo)	ㅏ	ㅑ	ㅓ	ㅕ	ㅗ	ㅛ	ㅜ	ㅠ	ㅡ	ㅣ
Romanization Pronunciation	a [a]	ya [ja]	eo [ʌ]	yeo [jʌ]	o [o]	yo [jo]	u [u]	yu [ju]	eu [ɯ]	i [i]
Letter (jamo)	ㅐ	ㅒ	ㅔ	ㅖ	ㅚ		ㅟ		ㅢ
Romanization Pronunciation	ae [ɛ]	yae [jɛ]	e [e]	ye [je]	oe [wø]		wi [wi]		ui [ɰi]
Letter (jamo)	ㅘ		ㅝ
Romanization Pronunciation	wa [wa]		wo [wʌ]
Letter (jamo)	ㅙ		ㅞ
Romanization Pronunciation	wae [wɛ]		we [we]

Learn Korean (Introduction) Read, write, pronounce Korean: Course — Lesson 1 • Lesson 2 • Lesson 3 • Lesson 4 • Lesson 5 • Lesson 6 • Summary Orthography • Essential Pronunciation Rules • Advanced Pronunciation Rules Grammar • Conversation