 
 
I actually started my YouTube Channel 4-5 years ago.
I usually updated videos about English grammars and expressions.
 
But, I always wanted to teach foreigners
how to speak write, and read Korean.
Today is a kind of a big day for me to take a big step to realize my goal.
There's another lady sitting right next to me
waiting for her turn to introduce herself.
Could you introduce yourself, please?
Hi, my name is Sam!
To give you very brief background about our relationship,
She's my teacher, and I'm her teacher, too.
She teaches me Aerobics exercise every morning,
and I teach her English.
 
But from today, we're going to show you everything about Korea including,
food, culture, K-pop, and language.
We really hope you enjoy our videos and
Most importantly,
Please subscribe and like!
Give us a lot of comments as well.
In Korean language system, we have 19 consonants and 21 vowels,
but we're not covering everything today.
We're going to cover 3 consonants and and 3 vowels.
These are the consonant we're going to learn today.
My friend, Sam, will give you examples and
show you how to pronounce these alphabets.
Korean alphabets are not meaning-based
like Japanese or Chinese,
but it's sound-based, which means that
you can even write anything even if someone babbles
or speaks some languages you've never heard of.
You can right down anything right away.
 
Let's try Spanish!
 
 
(Amy speaks Spanish.)
(Sam speaks Spanish.)
We'll never know what it means, but
we can  follow what she says.
(Both speak Spanish.)
If one of you can speak Spanish or
understand Spanish, you can give a little comment
about what this means.
But, we can write down what we hear, exactly, see?
 
These three consonants are ones you're gonna learn today.
First one is gi-yeok.
We call it Gi-yeok, but is sounds like [g].
 
 
The next one is ni -eun,
and it sounds like [n].
 
 
Ni-eun sounds like [n].
This is di-geut.
It sounds like 'd' in English.
We also have vowels here.
The basic form of vertical vowel is [i].
It looks like a just vertical line, but it is [i].
It has a [i] / [i:]  sound.
We can add a short line at the right side of  ㅣ,
it turns into ㅏ [a].
You can put this little line at the left side of ㅣ,
and it turns into ㅓ [eo].
We gonna learn this three vowels, l, ㅏ, and ㅓ.
The very big difference between Korean and English is
We don't write letters one after another in a line,
but we have to group them together.
We need to group one consonant and one vowel, at least.
 
Let me show you how to write God in Korean.
But here, I'm only gonna focus on how it sounds.
For [g] sound,  we use ㄱ.
For [a] sound, we use ㅏ.
For [d] sound, we use  ㄷ.
In English,  you can write God in a linear way.
But in Korean, we don't write like this.
We have to group a consonant and vowel sound together.
After grouping them, it will look like this.
Sam prepared two boxes here.
Every consonant goes to the left box.
Could you put gi-yeok in the left box?
In the right box, you can only put vowels.
We're put 'l' here.
When you combine these two, it sounds like [gi].
[g] plus [i] is [gi].
Do you have any word starting with "기"?
If you're a big fan of beer, you may know Guinness..
When we write the name of Guinness in Korean,
first letter should be like this.
 
Why don't you change consonant?
The next goes into the left box.
Then, it turns into 니.
[n] plus [i] is 니 [ni].
 
Let's change to another consonant ㄷ [di-geut].
 
[d] plus [i] is 디 [di].
 
 
When you write "digital" in Korean, the first letter should be 디.
 
Why don't we change a vowel from now on.
I'll put gi-yeok back in the left box.
You can put the next vowel, ㅏ[a].
[g] plus [a] is 가 [ga].
Do you have any word starting with 가?
If you don't come up with anything, I will pass.
Let's change it to another consonant, ㄴ.
It has [n] sound...
It's 나 [na].
 
When you say Banana, the very last letter ends with 나[na].
 
 
 
 
The next consonant is ㄷ [d].
When we group it with ㅏ, it turns into 다 [da].
 
 
 
Any names, or...
If one of you has a name , Daniel,
you would say Daniel, but we say 다니엘.
 
 
 
Why don't we change it to the next vowel, ㅓ[eo]?
So, let's combine ㄱ with ㅓ.
Then, it 'll sound like 거 [geo].
 
 
 
 
 
Next consonant is ㄴ [n].
[n] plus [eo] is 너 [neo].
 
Venus!
 
 
 
The middle letter of Venus has 너 [neo].
 
The next and final alphabet is ㄷ.
[d] plus [eo] is 더 [deo].
 
 
 
We only covered three consonants, ㄱ ㄴ ㄷ,
and three vowels, ㅣ ㅓ ㅏ.
 
In the next video, we're gonna show more consonants and vowels for you.
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