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Hangul: The Korean Alphabet (Vowels)

I started studying Hangul casually a few months ago when I decided to begin learning Korean. Now that I’m taking classes, it’s time to get serious. With my instructor, I have now covered all of the vowels, which are a bit different than English. The vowels are as follows:

ᅡ - a - as in father

ᅣ - ya - as in yard

ᅥ - eo - as in uh-oh

ᅧ - yeo - as in yonder

ᅩ - o - as in home

ᅭ - yo - as in yoga

ᅮ - u - as in boo

ᅲ - yu - as in you

ᅳ - eu - as in pull (this is a bit tricky since there isn’t an English equivalent to this sound.

ᅵ - i - as in feet

ᅢ - ae - as in care

ᅤ - yae - as in yankie

ᅦ - e - as in met

ᅨ - ye - as in yes

ᅪ - wa - as in wine

ᅫ - wae - as in wait

ᅬ - oe - as in wet

ᅯ - weo - as in wonder

ᅰ - we - as in when

ᅱ - wi - as in we

ᅴ - ui - as in pull followed by feet (this is the tricky one, just do ᅳ and transition into the ᅵ sound quickly)

So far I’ve gotten the hang of these but I have trouble producing the different sounds for ᅥ, ᅩ and ᅮ without thinking really hard about it.

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