Hi! In the previous lesson we talked about Korean consonants,
and today I'll teach you 10 basic Korean vowels.
And if you don't remember what vowel is,
here is the example of vowels in English.
In the English language, the letters you see over here,
colored in red are called vowels.
Here are 10 basic vowels in the Korean language.
I divided them into two groups.
This trick is going to help you to learn them faster,
because as you can see,
the only difference between vowels in this group
and in this, is the letter 'y'
which is pronounced as 'y',
so A, YA, O' , YO' and so on.
Let's talk about each of these letters in more details.
Here's the first letter ㅏ,
and it represents a combination of two strokes:
one vertical stroke, which you start drawing first,
and the second stroke is a short horizontal one.
As mentioned in the previous lesson,
whenever you see a vertical stroke,
you start drawing it from the top to bottom,
and when you see a horizontal stroke,
draw it from the left to the right, okay?
So this letter is ㅏ
and it sounds like
the letter 'a' in the English word 'father'.
A
The next letter is YA,
and the only difference between ㅏ and ㅑ is
this extra horizontal stroke over here.
So you start drawing it from the vertical stroke again.
One, two,
and three.
The next letter is
O' (ㅓ)
It looks like a reversed letter ㅏ.
Start drawing it from this little horizontal stroke,
not a vertical stroke, okay?
Because I have seen that often
foreigners start writing this letter from the vertical stroke,
and then they write the horizontal stroke.
If you do so, at the end of the day
your letter ㅓ is gonna look like a + sign,
which is not readable and kinda ugly.
So follow the rule, okay?
Horizontal stroke first
and then a vertical stroke in case of letter O'.
When you write the letter A,
you draw the vertical stroke first
and then the horizontal stroke.
And this O' sounds like letter ' i '
in the English word 'bird'.
The next letter is YO'
and it looks almost the same as O' (ㅓ)
but the only difference is this extra horizontal stroke over here.
So you draw this short horizontal stroke first,
then draw the second horizontal stroke,
and draw the vertical stroke.
The next letter is O (ㅗ).
It is often get confused
with this letter, because they kinda sound similar.
Especially when you start learning Korean,
you hardly can hear the difference
between these two letters.
So this O (ㅗ)
sounds like letter 'a'
in the English word 'ball'.
And here's the rule how to write the letter,
start with the vertical stroke first,
and then draw the horizontal stroke.
Next letter is YO (ㅛ).
Again, it looks like O (ㅗ).
You just add an extra vertical stroke over here.
First you draw two vertical strokes,
and then one horizontal stroke on the bottom.
The next letter is U (ㅜ).
It looks like a reversed version of O (ㅗ),
but a little bit different.
As you can see, this vertical stroke here
is a bit longer
and at this time you start drawing the letter with the
horizontal stroke first,
and then draw the vertical stroke, okay?
this letter U (ㅜ) sounds like ' oo '
in the English word 'school'.
And the next letter is YU (ㅠ).
Add the extra vertical stroke to the letter U (ㅜ),
and you will get the letter ㅠ.
The next letter is U' (ㅡ)
and this sounds like letter 'e'
in the word 'broken'.
And finally, the last basic vowel is ' l (ㅣ)'.
It's quite easy to remember.
It sounds like the letter ' i ' in the word 'big'.
Okay, let's do a quick recap
before we practice a little bit.
So this letter is A, YA
O', YO'
O, YO
U, YU
U', I
A, YA, O', YO', O, YO, U, YU, U', I
Now it's your turn to practice
We will combine a consonant,
which we learned in the previous lesson,
with vowels to get a syllable.
Can you guess how to read it?
It's KA
And this is how we got the syllable.
We added 'ㅏ' to the consonant ' ㄱ ' and we got 가.
And if you are not familiar with the consonants
check out the previous lesson.
And how would you read this?
Pause the video and try to solve it on your own.
It's a good opportunity for you to practice.
So this one is NA
As you remember,
this consonant is N and this one is A.
So you combine these two and get a sound NA.
The next one is...
Pause the video again and try to solve for yourself.
This is 끼.
The double consonant KK and I. KKI.
The next syllable is...
RYO'
The next one is...
SHYA.
You may wonder why it's SHYA but not SYA
because as we learned in the previous lesson
this consonant may sound as S or SH
So depending on what kind of vowel goes after it
You pronounce it as S or SH.
As mentioned earlier in this lesson
I divided ten vowels
into two groups.
If you use a vowel from the first group, which is
A, O', O, U, U'
then this letter should be pronounced as S.
So, SA, SO', SO, SU, SU'
But if you combine it
with the vowels from the second group
like YA, YO', YO, YU, I,
then you should pronounce this letter as SH.
SHYA, SHYO', SHYO, SHYU, SHI, okay?
And this is how you got this syllable.
The next one is...
JO'
Next is...
Do you remember this consonant?
It looks like the first letter in the Korean alphabet,
but with the extra horizontal stroke over here.
It also sounds similar to ㄱ.
So this is Khi, not Ki but Khi, okay?
And the next syllable is quite easy.
It looks like a mouth. This letter is ㅁ.
MA
TO'
This is
PYO'.
Double consonant PP and YO'.
PPYO'.
And the last one is
CHA.
CHA is a 'car' or 'tea' in Korean.
So that's all for today.
Let's take a look at the key points.
There are 21 vowels in the Korean language.
We have just covered 10 basic vowels
and in the next lesson
we will learn 11 double vowels.
And again,
I have already explained this in the previous lesson,
but if you are new to this channel
here's the rule,
you should draw horizontal strokes from the left to the right
and vertical strokes from the top to the bottom, okay?
and there are no upper or lower case letters
in the Korean language.
All letters have the same size.
So you have done great job!
Go practice a little bit before watching the next lesson
and also, don't forget to check out the homework
in the description box below.
Okay, that's enough for today.
See you next time~^^