DIPHTHONGS (complex + compound vowels) with MINI DRAMA!

Here's another video tutorial on Korean about Diphthongs. As we know that a Diphthongs is a sound created by the combination of vowels. Like in many other languages, there are also diphthongs in Korean. Diphthongs are also called as complex vowels or compound vowels. You may download the worksheet from Professor Oh again here about diphthongs. Then try to write them as you have done in previous Korean worksheet on my previous posts.

The diphthongs are explained one by one, sometimes a short Korean dialog will come up after the diphthongs explanations. At the end of this lesson, you will also see a short conversation and also a short commercial film. Listen carefully to the sentences that contain Korean diphthongs.

DOUBLE CONSONANTS (and some words)

On this video, Professor Oh is going to teach Double Consonants and some Korean words. Actually, you are going to hear some basic conversation related to the words made by the consonants. Pay attention to the conversation. The funny thing is that Professor Oh plays the roles of two people at the same time in the conversation. You'll learn new Korean words like: "busy", "cheap", "salty" and "stingy".

Learn to write Korean alphabet (basic consonants + vowels)

Learning Korean is a fun thing to me. After watching the previous video on pronouncing the alphabet, let's learn how to write the Basic Consonants and Vowels. In writing Korean alphabet, we usually write lines and circle. The vowel in consonant does not stand alone, but usually start with a circle.

We also write rectangle in the consonants. I feel that writing an alphabet in Korean is rather different from writing a Chinese character. When writing the same line, we probably go for different direction. That's what I feel, though. Korean alphabet also makes me feel like writing ASCII characters with lines of different shapes. There are also diagonal lines in the writing consonant. Although, it may seem difficult to learn at first, but I do think that it's made easy with the tutorial from Professor Oh.

She also prepares a worksheet for us to learn how to write the alphabet. You may click here to download the Korean alphabet worksheet.

Pronounce the Korean Alphabets

Korean Alphabet is different from English language. Although, they have similar way in pronunciation, they do differ in writing. If you have ever learnt Japanese, you may find that Korean is also a language with lines, curves and circles. But it's just really different from Japanese or even Chinese. I think learning to write Chinese is harder.

Korean language has 3 categories when talking about the alphabets. The Korean alphabet has:
14 consonants
10 main vowels
11 complex vowels

Don't think too far about the alphabet. The easiest way to learn a new language is to listen and repeat after the tutorial. This tutorial will give you a brief introduction to the consonant followed by the "a" vowel. Listen carefully as "Professor Oh" pronounce in Korean.