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90-Day-Challenge-L (Korean Reading) PDF
90-Day-Challenge-L (Korean Reading) PDF
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Introduction
THE 90 MINUTE CHALLENGE
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And the best way to start learning Korean is to learn to
read Hangeul, the Korean writing system.
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It covers the how, what and why of Korean language
learning, and it is the only guide of its kind.
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The rest of the sounds exist in the Korean
language; however, the Q, W, X and Y sounds:
OR
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But we can group C and K together, since in
English, they make the same sound.
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The first letter of the English word in the
picture has the same sound as the Korean
character.
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The Korean character has the appearance
of a gun and sounds similar to an English G.
The same goes for (H), which looks like a
man with a hat, and (J) which could be seen
as a jug with a spout at the top.
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Great work! Lets move on.
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Next is the character , which has 5 strokes
and could be compared to the rungs of a ladder.
Its sound is most similar to an English L and
can be made the same way by pressing down
with your tongue.
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The is a sqaure box like a message on a
phone or a piece of mail.
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How are we doing so far? Lets do an exercise.
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Exercise 1
THE CONSONANTS
Match the character on the left with the English word on the right
that has the corresponding sound in its first letter.
1. a. hat
2. b. jug
3. c. bed
4. d. gun
5. e. northeast
6. f. mail
7. g. door
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8. h. seashell
9. i. ladder
Answers: 1. g 2. d 3. c 4. i 5. a 6. f 7. b 8. e 9. h
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ASPIRATED CONSONANTS
(15 MINUTES)
B, D, G and J.
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What if we made them stronger, aspirating as
we spoke them? What sound would we then
make?
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When we do the same in Korean, well see
some visual similarities in the characters,
which can help greatly for memorization.
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Its almost as if all we did was add a small line
to each consonant to create the aspirated
equivalent.
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The (K) could be compared to a key, while
the , which has a T sound, could be
associated with teeth (like the ones in your
mouth or the teeth of a fork).
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similar to the symbol for pi. That makes it
easy to remember.
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One of them is special, because it doesnt have
a direct equivalent to an English letter. Instead,
it represents a sound in English.
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Exercise 2
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THE ASPIRATED CONSONTANTS
Again, match the character on the left with the English word on
the right that has the corresponding sound in its first letter(s). Be
careful, as this time the regular consonants are mixed in.
1. a. door
2. b. key
3. c. jug
4. d. pi
5. e. teeth
6. f. gun
7. g. bed
8. h. church
Answers:
1.
a
2.
f
3.
g
4.
e
5.
d
6.
h
7.
c
8.
b
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Ok, so thats 13 Korean characters already!
Youre more than halfway there.
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However, if the character ends a particular
syllable, it is pronounced ng like in -ing in
English. This is a very important rule to
remember, otherwise we would just skip over
the consonant, assuming it had no sound.
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But before we get into that, we need to do a
basic review of English grammar.
Short A: cat
Long A: mate
Short E: bet
Long E: seen
Short I: bit
Long I: might
Short O: dog
Long O: bone
Short U: bus
Long U: flute
All of these sounds exist or can be made using
Korean characters except for the short I sound
(this just doesnt exist in Korean and is very
difficult for Koreans to pronounce).
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The characters for the vowels are all pretty
easy! They are just lines.
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Now, imagine a cross in the middle
representing a timeline. Did you know the first
iPod came out in 2001? That makes it OLD.
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Good work!
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Finally, the character pointing down has a
Long U sound like the EW in New.
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Therefore, if the vowel sounds we have so far
are:
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Commit these to memory.
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Its time for another exercise to drill this in.
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Exercise 3
THE VOWELS
Match the character on the left with the sound on the right.
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1. a. AW
2. b. OO
3. c. YAH
4. d. OH
5. e. EU
6. f. YAW
7. g. YOO
8. h. EE
Answers:
1.
a
2.
g
3.
h
4.
c
5.
d
6.
e
7.
b
8.
f
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together, existing within small invisible
boxes, and each box can have up to four
characters. Each little box becomes a
syllable. Instead of reading right across, we
read one box at a time using the rule right to
left, top to bottom. Thats all there is to it!
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The third, fourth and fifth syllables are more
straightforward and are just read simply right
to left.
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For the first two, we would just read right to
left.
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3. B for bed + ah = Bah plus B for bed +
oh. Bahbo. This is the Korean word for
stupid. If you can read these words
already, you are definitely not !
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How did it go? Did you remember all of the
characters from the associations we made
before? Lets check.
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*Note. These are rough pronunciations and we
will learn a few more subtle pronunciation
rules in future lessons.
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slightly but doubling up the English consonant
youve already associated with the character.
Easy right?
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That B sound when you yell the word would
be more similar to the bb sound of the
character .
Not to worry, there will be more on
pronunciation in future lessons.
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(ee), while the second is just (yah)
combined with (ee).
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is a subtle difference, it is not very apparent in
the younger generations. We can remember
them because the horizontal line(s) are just
shifted over to the left from the previous two
we just learned.
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Just remember we dont pronounce the
placeholder.
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Remember though, you would never see these
characters starting a syllable without a
placeholder or a consonant in front of them.
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How did you do? Tough, right? Here are the
answers:
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Thats it! Click the stop button on your
stopwatch and record your time.
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Congratulations!
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Armed with this knowledge, youre ready to
start tackling more lessons in Korean. When
you learn Korean in Korean, or at least while
thinking and writing using the characters, you
learn much more effectively.
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post your time in the comments, and let us
know how you found the challenge.
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