The Korean Alphabet has no relations at all to any other language script in the world, so in a way, it can be difficult for hangul learners to get a grasp on it at first, but once they understand it, there is no doubt that nobody would say that hangul is a hard script to learn.īelow are videos from the language learning website Talk To Me In Korean, a popular language-learning tool that many foreigners use. Koreans and foreigners alike say that it only takes a day to learn hangul, due to its straightforwardness and the logical philosophy behind the script. In total, there are 21 single and compound vowels. Korean also has compound vowel sounds such as ㅢ, ㅞ, ㅚ, and ㅟ. (ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅉ, ㅆ, ㅃ) ㅏ ㅑ ㅓ ㅕ ㅗ ㅛ ㅜ ㅠ ㅡ ㅣ a ya eo yeo o yo oo yoo eu ee Note that these romanizations are what you would see regularly. Korean also has double consonant letters.
When it appears at the final placement of a character, its sound resembles the nasal ‘ng’ sound of English. In Korean, the ㅇ letter doesn’t have a distinct sound. ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ ㄹ ㅁ ㅂ ㅅ ㅇ ㅈ ㅊ ㅋ ㅌ ㅍ ㅎ g/k n d l/r m b s * j ch k t p h Note that I haven’t put a letter underneath the ㅇ letter. Although the letters can’t be directly translated into English, linguists, academics, and the public have made roundabout romanization. And like English, hangul consists of 14 consonants and 10 vowels, altogether making it a 24-letter alphabet.
However, the individual parts of a character are letters of the alphabet, just like how English has its own alphabet.
Going back to the basics, the Korean writing system is an alphabetic syllabary, meaning that each character is a single syllable.
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