Well done to everyone who completed the assignment early!
@momo 🌟
@kpopncommunism 🌟
@dogfox 🌟
Let's see,
@SuitedUpDev ,
@sakurako ,
@ShaMyouiMo ,
should I expect something from you in the next few hours? I won't offer feedback after that.
@dwarf , will you be joining us?
I am well pleased with all you so far. Let us take a moment to review what we have learned.
Some rules I am sure you all noticed:
• There are more vowels in Hangul than the Latin alphabet (8 vs 5.5, counting only monopthings (i.e. pure vowel sounds where your tongue dos not move to say them) and fewer consonants (13 vs 20.5 Good job "y").
• Doubling the short line on a vowel adds a "y" sound in front (these are the simplest kind of dipthong (compound vowels where the tongue DOES move) in Korean. See @kpopncommunism 's answer for the other Korean dipthongs)
• There is no "f" consonant in Korean. That is why the fandom for LE SSERAFIM, FEARNOT, is written 피어나 (meaning "to bloom". Which made reading their translated weverse weird as hell, lemme tell ya)
• The character "ㄹ", rommanized "r/l", is said like a "hard L". It is at the consonant at the heart of all those racist Asian accent gags in English.
Please discussed in the replies with your fellow students any observations or mnemonics you use to help you with reading Hangul.
• How do you remember the difference between "ㅏ" and "ㅓ"? "ㅜ" and "ㅗ"? or "ㄴ" and "ㄱ"?
• What sounds do/don't appear in Korean that don't/do appear in another language you speak?
Lesson to support the next weeks assignments will be posted within the next few hours.
@tdhssh expect me to be dead, i don't expect to have actual spare time to commit to learning for the foreseeable half a year
i'm still going to follow, but read-only
@tdhssh @momo @kpopncommunism @dogfox @SuitedUpDev @sakurako @dwarf WHO IS RUNNING THIS ACCOUNT
@ShaMyouiMo not gonna lie, I do kinda wanna know.
@tdhssh @kpopncommunism @dogfox @SuitedUpDev @sakurako @ShaMyouiMo @dwarf hehe i got a star :aisaasap:
@tdhssh di dyou know that hangul was created in part to promote literacy in feudal korea, and in order to make the consonants easier to learn they made them resemble your mouth shape when you say them??
the ㄱ is supposed to look like your tongue pushing the back of your mouth, and the ㄴ is your tongue pushing your front teeth!!
it's also cool that ㄴ is considered in the same group as ㄹ, sometimes they even get romanized the same like in the common surname roh (노)
@tdhssh @momo @kpopncommunism @dogfox @SuitedUpDev @sakurako @dwarf for the observations I guess I just remembered, because like I said I already know hangul from duolingo (kind of a pro B) )
but for ㄴ I remember because ㄴ=Nayeon so ㄱ is just the other one
OH also Korean doesn't have the V, L, F, Z, W, Q,or X
@ShaMyouiMo as a little helper. What I used to remember it:
ㄱ looks like a gun and is pronounced as a "g".
ㅏ is "ah" because it looks like it's trailing off
Idk if I use any other tricks to remember or if I just remember them now
I remember "ㅈ" is a sound between "j" and "z" because I keep seeing it "Minzy" and "Minji."
I have this sense that adding lines to a consonant makes it "harder" in some sense (more aspirated?) ㅁ -> ㅂ --> ㅍ, ㅅ->ㅈ->ㅊ, ㄱ->ㅋ like that.
I remember "ㅜ" and "ㅗ" because I want "ㅗ" to be "u" for "up" but it's the wrong way around. Honestly, that's probably too many steps.
@tdhssh how badly I do still want to send something... I just had 2, 16 hour workdays and I'm currently traveling towards a bed.
So let's be realistic here, that's currently not gonna happen 😅