Korean.Hangul.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
10:47 PM
안녕하세요.
Annyeong-haseyo.
Hello.
I've been learning Korean these few weeks. Just for fun la. Watching Korean drama series & tv shows does have its effect on you. Korean seems like a fun language. :)
Its hard learning it by yourself though. Cos apparently, English is a SVO language, which is Subject-Verb-Object. While Korean is a SOV language, which is Subject-Object-Verb. For example, in English, it is :
-Caryi loves yellow.
But in Korean, it is:
-Caryi yellow loves.
Its pretty confusing. :/ But its fun. :)
In Korean, there are 10 vowels & 14 consonants. You can read a word by looking at the vowels & consonants. You can read a word by looking at the vowels & consonants in the word.
Vowels:
ㅏ[a]
ㅗ[o]
ㅡ[eu]
ㅑ[ya]
ㅛ[yo]
ㅣ[i]
ㅓ[eo]
ㅜ[u]
ㅕ[yeo]
ㅠ[yu]
아이 This is read as [ai]. According to the vowels.
Consonants:
so, 여기 is read as [yeogi].
There are also double consonants & final consonants & so on.
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Just a few phrases for fun. :)
네. or (예.)
[Ne. or (ye.)]
Yes.
아니오.
[Anio.]
No.
고맙습니다. or (감사합니다.)
[Gomapseumnida. (Gamsahamnida.)]
Thank you.
미안합니다. or (죄송합니다.)
[Mianhamnida. (chesong-hamnida.)]
Sorry.
괜찮아요
[Kwen-chah-nah-yo.]
Its all right.
I'm bored. Byee!
