Hangeul Made Easy: Korean Pronunciation Demystified

1. Course Outline: Hi everyone. Welcome to this beginner course on Korean pronunciation Hanger made easy. I'm your Korean teacher. So he, we'll start the course from simple vowels, then onto simple consonants, double consonants, compound vowels, pam one and pam two. Then we'll move on to the six rules that you have to know in order to pronounce naturally. With practices, with different combinations and examples, you'll be able to master Korean pronunciation in new time. Along with the course, there is a work that you can practice your writings and pronunciation along with the widths. Anytime. If you're not sure how to pronounce a word or sound, just go back to the workbook and you can revise all over again for this course. You don't need to have any pirate language to Korean, because we will start from the overview of the language itself and we'll move on to simple vowels, which is the first thing you'll be learning with Korean pronunciation. Unlike any other courses, this course is a focused one with the only aim to help you pronounce Korean naturally. And to be able to pronounce Korean words as well as sentences. If you are as excited as I am, start off your Korean learning Jenny, by joining the course. And we will dive into the overview of the Korean alphabets hunger together in the first lesson. See you there. 2. Korean Overview: Welcome to the first lesson of this course, Hunger Made Easy. Well, we will be doing an overview of the Korean language and the alphabet hunger, so that you will know how it works. Before we start, you can be rest assured that Korean is actually an easy language to learn. Why? You may ask, because King Sign the great, the creator of the Korean alphabets, hunger actually made it clear with the goal that his people should be able to learn this language easily before hunger. The current language was mainly written in Chinese characters, which were quite difficult for the people to learn at that time. Because of its complicated writings, hunger was made easy because of how simple it can be. Sound and being reading take fouls. For example, the sun from the sky looks like a little circle. The land, which is like a horizontal line. As humans as we stand is like a vertical line. With these elements, we make some macht them and it became our vowels. For the little, you will not be able to find it anymore in vowels, just the lines now. But then in traditional writing before they do have the start. It's important to note for easy pronunciation, King Sejong and his scholars analyzed the phonetic sounds of the Korean language and devised a system of symbols to represent those sounds. Then they tried to modify the sounds by changing the position of the tone or the shape of the mouth. To create a Korean word, we'll need two things, the vowel and a consonant. We only have ten basic vowels and 14 basic consonants here. For other sounds, we just modified them to create other new sounds. First thing you need to know about a word is that it always starts with a consonant sound and then a vowel. A vowel never goes before a consonant. For the formation of the Korean word, there are only three ways to do that. The first way, consonants on the left, vowels on the right. Second way the consonants will go on top, the vowels will be in the bottom. The third way, consonants on top, vowels in the middle, and another consonant at the bottom. That's all for the overview of Korean, and we'll be learning simple vowels in the next lesson. See you there. 3. 1.1.1 Simple Vowels: Hi, welcome back. I'm so excited that you're finally learning the pronunciations, and we're going to learn the simple vowels of Korean today. As I've mentioned before, there are ten simple vowels in Korean. And let's go for them one by one. Follow me for the pronunciation of each sound. Don't be afraid to pronounce them out, because that's the only way you can remember it. In general, the key to pronouncing Korean vowels correctly is to pay attention to the possession of the tongue and the shape of the mouth. Practice forming each vowel sound slowly and deliberately. And pay attention to how your tongue and lips move. With practice, you'll be able to pronounce each vowels accurately and confidently. Let's start learning the pronunciation from the first vowel, a, a. This owl is pronounced with the tongue low and flat in the mouth and the lips slightly rounded. It's similar to the sound in the English word father. Oh, this owl is pronounced with the tongue slightly raised and pushed forward in the mouth and the lips slightly spread apart. It is similar to the sound in the English word 00. This foul is pronounced with the ton pushed forward in the mouth and the lips around it. It is similar to the sound in the English Wd horse. This foul is pronounced with the town raised towards the back of the mouth and the lips round it. It is similar to the O sound in the English wd pool. Now that we've led the first four sounds, let's take a look at the four sounds underneath. You may notice that they are each very similar to the one above them, just with another line in the same direction as you will see in the first one. What that means is you just have to add another y sound, which sound like with the original sound. For example, you add another line to it. It will be, yeah. Yeah. As this vowel is a combination of the basic sound and the sound pronounce it, just make the sound and then quickly move the tongue up to the roof of the mouth to make the sound. The lips are slightly spread apart and it's similar to the sound in the English at. This vowel is a combination of the basic sound and the y sound. The lips are slightly spread apart and it's similar to the sound in the English word young. This fowl is a combination of the basic sound and the yes sound. To pronounce it, you can make the o sound. And the tail should be pushed forward in the mouth, and the lips are around it. And you can move the tail up to the roof of the mouth to make a sounds similar to the sound in the English word. Owl is a combination of the basic sound and yes sound. To pronounce it sound with the tongue raised towards the back of the mouth. With your lips round it quickly. Move your tongue up to the roof of the mouth to make the sound. It's similar to the U sound in the English. Let's wrap this up with the last two sound remaining here. With this vowel is pronounced with the tone flat in the mouth and the lips slightly spread apart. It is similar to the sound in the English, wed, put e. This vowel is pronounced with the tone raised towards the front of the mouth and the lips slightly spread apart. It is similar to the sound in the English word feel. Now that you know your simple vowels, I'm going to introduce one of the simple consonants to you, and it looks like a circle in shape. This consonant doesn't have any sound when it's put on the left of the word or on the top of the word. Remember consonants and then vowel. The reason why we're going to use this consonant is because we want to form a word instead of just the vowel sound. Remember, a Korean word needs a consonant and a vowel to form a word. Let's just add this little circle consonant to the left side or on the top to make them into words. Practice your writing with your writing sheets. And try to practice your pronunciation while you write each of them. To decide where to put this circle consonant, you'll just have to look at the direction of the lines in the vowel. If the lines are left or right, you need to put the consonants on the left. If the lines are up and down, then the consonant will be on top. Now let's move on to learn some width, shall we? These words are always the silent consonants and simple vowels. 2050, Milk, fox, a, kit, E, E, cucumber. Hope you enjoyed the lesson on simple vowels and we will be learning the simple consonants in the next lesson. See you there. 4. 1.1.2 Consonants 1 (Simple Consonants): Hi there. Today we are going to start with our simple consonants. There are 14 simple consonants in Korean is a little bit more than the simple vowels. But don't fret because they are very easy to remember. With our visual learning technique to assist you in remembering all the sounds, I've prepared some pictures in which you can associate the sounds with. Whenever you forget the sounds, just think of the picture will definitely give you some hints to the sounds. We can categorize these simple consonants into different groups based on their sounds, because King Sargon actually did it in this way. He transformed one consonant into another by just altering a little bit of it sound. If they are in the same group, they are probably sounding very similar. And they look, that shape will also be looking quite similar. Let's begin to start off. We can divide our simple consonants into five categories. For the first group of simple consonants, we have keo and key. Don't worry, these are only the names of our simple consonants, but you don't really have to remember them. All you need to know is how to pronounce the consonant sounds. These consonants are pronounced with the back of the tone pressed against the roof of the mouth. Keo is an unaspirated consonant that produces a sound similar to the English sound. Which is like a sound, but it's actually with a little k sound like as well, we say is actually in the middle of a and sound k is an aspirated consonant that produces a stronger and more phosphoral version of a K sound. In English, breathing more air, you may realize the aspirated version is always going to be a higher term of the original one, because now you have more air in your mouth. Let's move on to group two, where we have in. And these consonants are pronounced with the back of the tone pressed against the roof of the mouth. Neon produces a sound similar to the English and Sound it's like a. Nor is an unaspirated consonant that produces a sound similar to the English sound D, but also similar to the English sound it's in between. And it is an aspirated consonant that produces a more popul version of the sound. Li is a tense consonant that produces a sound that is similar to the English. So very often it is used to replace any sound in borrowed words we have. And these consonants are pronounced by pressing the lips together and then releasing them to produce a best of M is an unaspirated consonant that produces a sound similar to the English sound, is an unaspirated consonant that produces a sound similar to the English sound, but also with some p sound is an aspirated consonant that produces a strong burst of air. With the sound like the English sound. Per group four, we have these sounds are pronounced with the front of the town pressed against the roof of the mouth. O is similar to the English sound to pronounce it after placing the front of your town against the roof of your mouth. Just let the air pass through your teeth. Sir, it is similar to the English G sound, but it's also with a slight CH sound. To make this sound again, do what you did with the sound is similar to the CH sound in English. To make this sound again, touch the front of your tongue to the roof of your mouth behind your teeth, but then release a best of it by exhaling forcefully. Rob five, we have these last two left, and these two are the silent consonant with eun. I think you will remember it from the simple vowels. When it's put on the left or on top of a word, it's silent. We don't read. It is a unique consonant in Korean, but it is only used at the end of syllables, meaning you will only hear. It is put under the word is pronounced by dropping the back of the town and making a nostril sound at the back of the throat is similar to the G sound in the English word like sing or long. Here is pronounced by exhaling air sharply through the mouth with the back of the ton pressed against the roof of the mouth. It produces a sound similar to the H sound in English words. Now that we've gone through all this simple consonants, let's try to read it again together. Repeat after me. Coo, coo, coo, coo, no, no, tu tu, tu tu lo lo mu mu puh puh puh puh Sir. Sir? Ta, ta, ta, ta, mm, mm, uh, congratulations on finishing this simple consonant sound. Since now you already know simple vowels and simple consonants, we are going to combine them together in the next lesson, in which you'll be able to read words. Exciting, right? I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. 1.2 Combination of Simple Vowels and Simple Consonants (Unaspirated): Now you have learned about simple vowels and simple consonants. In this part of the lesson, you're going to learn how to combine them together so that you can read a word not to overwhelm with too many sounds. We are just going to deal with mainly the unaspirated consonant sounds. We'll start off with our first consonant sounds, which is an because as you know, when it's put on the left side or on the top of the word, it's not going to have any sound. Let's start reading. We'll be combining it with the simple vowels that we've learnt so far. And I'll give you 3 seconds for each word, so that you have some time to think about what this pronunciation should be ready. Let's go. Ah, ah, yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yo, yo 0000 You E. Next we'll go to Keo, which sounds like Ka. Ka call call K K Cole. Cole. K K 0000 K Key. Next let's go to Neon, which sounds like nah, nah, nah, nah, no. No. Neil? Neil? No. No. Neil? Neil New? No. No. E E God. Which sounds like to Ta, Ta Tia. Ta ta ta ti I t. To, to, to, to, to, to, to T T leo, which sounds like Le la, La Lea. Lea Law, law. Leo Leo Low, Low. Leo Leo Lou lou liu liu Le le Le Lee. Um, which sounds like a, a more more me mo mo, me, me, move. Move me, me, me, me. Which sounds like Pa, pa, pa, pa Paul, Paul, Paul, Pol 00 Pooh, pooh. P P P Next is so, which sounds like Su sa, sa, sa, sa. So, so she, she. So, so show, show, sue, sue, sh, sh, s, s, she, she. Next we have a which sounds like to ta ta, ta, ta chi, o chi cho, cho, cho, cho, cho, cho, cho, cho to T. Last one. And also the only aspirated consonants that we are going to cover in this section is here. All here, he, ho, ho, he, he, who, who, who. Now you basically know how to read words. And with more practice, you'd be able to read them just as fluently as you would in English. However, as you progress, you will not just be able to read, but really vocabularies when words are combined together. That's a rule that you have to know when you're trying to read a vocabulary. Mainly, be careful when you see the four simple consonants to when you come across these specific consonants, you need to see if they are in the first word of this vocabulary or not. If it's in the middle or if it's in the end, then you will simply not pronounce any error when you read the word you might ask for example. So as in English, we write out is in between the sound which. Actually an aspirated sound. Really, we will not pronounce sound. Instead we will go for the sound which is similarly, we will just say the J sound. Similarly for two, we'll just say the sound. Instead of pronouncing the t sound, just say the hook. We'll just have the B sound instead of Sound. For easy memorization is just good job. There you go. I'm going to use two examples to show you how this rule will be applying when you're trying to pronounce the words. First one is meat. Let's see how you would pronounce this word. Okay, The first letter we know is right. The second word, it should be key. Right? But then our now is changed because it's not in the first letter anymore. It should be changed from to meat is. Let's try another word. Hat. First word, Second word is to, you should change it to a moda. Now I trust that you've learned to rule. And I'll give you the remaining words to read. Leather sausage, sauce, and banana, pa. I don't know if you realize this, but actually a lot of Korean words also come from English, like banana pananaaj. Just change them into the Korean pronunciation and you're good to go. 6. 1.3.1 Combination of Simple Vowels and Simple Consonants (Aspirated): In the last lesson, we've covered the combination of the simple vowels and the simple consonants, mainly the unaspirated sounds. In this lesson, we are going to learn how to read the aspirated simple consonant sound, as well as the double consonant sound other than the aspirated consonant sound that we've covered last time. Which is we still have four to cover today. Namely, per similarity last lesson we are going to see the pronunciation when the consonant sound and the vowel sounds are combined together. And you will have 3 seconds to think about it before I pronounce it for you. Let's start off with our first aspirated consonant sound, which is a sound Ta ta ta ta cha, cha, cha, cha, cho, cho, cho, cho, cho, cho, ch, ch. For the second sound, we have Key, which is a sound a Kia Kia call call, kill, kill Cole Cole, kill, kill. Q Q Key key. Our third sound is which is a sound Ta, Ta, Ta Tia, T tall, to, to, to, to, to two 2222t to T a lot. Sound Is, which is a. Sound Pa pa, per per Paul. Paul per per pol pol. 00. Pu, Pu. Pu, Pu. Pu, Pu P P. 7. 1.3.2 Double Consonants: Now let's move on with our double consonants, which we actually only have five here. With double consonants, there's nothing fancy about them. It's just two simple consonants combined together. And you will have to read them forcefully, because now you have two consonants, right? Double consonants. They are definitely not aspirated sounds. Let's compare the unaspirated consonant sound, aspirated consonant sound, and the double consonant sound together. First set, we have co. Here you'll find that for the first sound, it's exactly in between. And cut sound, it's a subtle sound. For the aspirated sound, we will choose the latter one, which is a K sound because it's aspirated, It's as for the double consonant, what we do is that we choose the first one because for double consonant sounds they're not aspirated sound. In this case, we have sound. The same rules applies to the rest of the consonant sound. Let's look at the second set. To the third set being to set. Last set, we only have two of them. As a reminder, you'll always find the aspirated sounds higher tone than the unaspirated sounds. Because as you're putting more air into them, it's just natural that they will sound higher and peach. For double consonants, however, tone is not that important. With these in mind, let's move on with the combination of double consonant sound with simple vowel sound. Let's start off with the first double consonant sound key, which is A sound A, A. Yeah, yeah, go, go, gi, gi, go, go, yo, yo, goo, goo, goo, goo, e. The third sound is sun ticket, which is the sound that a a, o. So, do, do, do, do. The third sound we have Sound, which is a sound. Ba ba ba ba ba o 00 O for one is sung It. Which is a sound. A, Yeah. Yeah. Joe, Joe, GO GO Joe Joe 00 J, J, do to. Our last sound is a s, which is a sound. Sa, sa, ha ha. So, so show, show. So, so show, show, sue, Sue. So sir, sir, see she, Now that we know ourselves, let's try reading the wits together. Let's try this one. Daddy, a ba ba rabbit to headband. May, may a kiss. Both ball, both ball a tail, Go. Go to use. In this lesson, we've covered the aspirated consonant sounds, the double consonant sounds, and the combinations of sounds. Make sure you know how to differentiate each one of them. And we will be talking about the compound foul sounds in the next lesson. 8. 1.4 Compound Vowels: In this lesson, we are going to learn about the compound vowels from the name Compound vowels you might have guessed is actually two simple vowels combined together and we create new sets of compound vowels. So long as you know your simple vowels, compound vowels will not be a challenge for you. But if you are not that familiar with your simple vowels, please do revise that before coming to the compound vowels. There are 11 comun vowels that we're going to learn. Let's start with our first one. The first compound vowel looks like the letter H in English. But when you look closely, is actually made up of two simple vowels in Korean, namely, and with this being said, the pronunciation of these compound vowels is actually the combination of these two simple vowels which it makes a, a, a, is it sound. With the second compound vowel is actually very similar looking to the first one. If you remember very similar looking, they should probably sound similar as well with an extra line added. That means you will need to put a y sound there which sounds like it will be. It is made up of the vowel. Yeah. And the third mound vowel is made up of the two symbol, vowel and E. Together is actually sounding quite similar to the first one that we lend a. There's really not much in difference between the two as most Korean do really pronounce them like almost the same. But if you'd really like to know, the first one will be more of the sound in apple, apple. But the third one will be the sound in pen, it's shorter. The shape of the mouth will also be slightly different. For a it's like this, a, a, but for a it's the other way round. Your mouth will be more rounded, A. Take these two words, for example, we have n n which means, n n which means yes. Don't stress too much. If you really can't differentiate them, just treat them more or less the same. Let's move on to the next one. Have this sound which is made up of and it is. Yeah. Yeah. That would be similar to the second sound which is. Yeah. Yeah. Again, Yeah, yeah. Let's learn one more before we take a break. This is made up of the simple vowel, and we are going to read it very quickly, E. Let's revise over these five combound vowels sounds again. First one, a, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, let's go through some sounds with a, k, n. Now with this sound, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now with this sound, k, n, say. And the. Sound. Yeah, yeah. A here, find no Sound. Let's try to read these three words to see if you're able to read them. First. One, camera, chair, le da, da, clock, trusting you, pronounce them correctly. We will be moving on to the next set of bound vowels. Only have six remaining. Let's get on with the first one. It's combined with the simple vowel and together next we have and a third one. And now we have a difficult one we have, but this one is not really possible to just combine them and say the pronunciation because is where, where for this one you just need to remember all is where were coming up. We have all and from now we have learned wawa, where, where. Yes. It's the same with the last one just in different form. And we have the last one is a way. Way is also way. Yes, you have three ways. It can be quite difficult in the beginning when you're just trying to learn Korean. But as you learn more Korean, you realize, okay, when I try to say this meaning I should actually use this way. For the time being, you just need to remember which way do you need to use? Let's revise these six sounds. We were not so bad. Now let's move on to pronounce the newly learned cells with our simple consonants. First one no, and with no more, and with share n t s. With war again, we quit sway quick with war again, we have weed, treg, swag. Quick last Sound Quick, sit again, challenge. Let's see if you are able to pronounce these free wits. First, wit cake, K, K, D, t, and snack, qua, qua. Congratulations on finishing the lesson on cam bound vowels. And I'll see you in the next lesson. We'll be covering the final consonant sounds. 9. 1.5 Final Consonants 1: For final consonant. What we mean by that is we're going to put a consonant underneath that word. It has two consonants, and the consonant underneath is the final consonant. In reading words with final consonants, we are not going to end the sounds by reading the consonant sounds literally. Instead, we have a few ways that we have to learn in order to read them. For the first part, we are going to cover the final consonant sounds of neon. And let's start with the final consonant, Neon. To pronounce Neon correctly, touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth, just behind your upper front teeth. This allows the air to pass through your nose. Let's compare the words without the final consonant, Neon and with neon. Car, Can, can. So. So sun, sun, Ta T 1010 Pol pol pun. Next we have the final consonant, me. To pronounce me, gently your lips together and let the air pass through your nose. It should sound like the sound in English, but instead of pronouncing the sound, you were just gently closing your lips together. Let's compare our sounds. Care. So, so, so some ta, ta, ta, ta, Paul, Paul. Moving on, we have our final consonant, N. This is a unique consonant because it can be pronounced as a vowel or remain silent depending on this position in the word. When it comes to being at the end of the word is often the. So basically what you need to do is to read the upper part and then just add that extra power to end the sound. Again, we're going to compare the sounds, ca, ca, can, can. So, so song, song, ta ta, ta ta pong, pong. Lastly, we have our final consonant to pronounce lightly. Touch the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth, just behind your upper front teeth. Let's compare the sounds so, so, so ta, ta, ta, ta, p, P, P, p. Well, let's try to read these words by yourself. A friend. Tu, tu, the sky. No, no cloud. Whom, whom? Mom, um, um, pass. And young, a bag, Bang, bang. Great job. You have coed the first part of the final consonants in this lesson. In the next lesson, we are going to co part two of the final consonants. 10. 1.6 Final Consonants 2: In the last lesson, we have talked about the first part of the final consonants. And today we are going to cover the second part of the final consonant sounds. That includes all other sounds that we haven't covered yet. These final consonants have unique pronunciation characteristics. Again, we are not going to just pronounce them as they appear to sound. Don't fret just yet, because there are so many consonant sounds here. Instead, we can try to grip them together for the sounds that are using the same method to pronounce. Let's start with, and these consonants are actually pronounced like a gentle closure of the lips. You can think of it as a soft release of air. Let's compare the word without the final consonant and with this final consonant. Pa pa, pa pa na na na na mo mo mo, ta, ta, ta, ta. Next we have ke, ke, and kel. These consonants are actually pronounced with a slight or stop of the focal, similar to when you're about to pronounce the K sound, But without really the actual release of sound. Basically you will pronounce them with just a subtle closing of the focal track at the end. As compare the sounds pa, pa, pa, pa, na, na, not more, more. Lastly, we have the rest of the sounds. These consonants are pronounced as a gentle or stop of the vocal track. To do this, lightly touch the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth, just behind your upper front teeth, and we'll compare the sounds together. Pa, pa, pa, pa, na, na, na na mo, mo, mud, mud, pa, pa, pa, pa. Now is your chance to Troy out reading these words. Kitchen, ph poh, Oh, the school. Gill, gill, fishing, see. And the verb to a flower. Good, good, rise, put, put. Remember the final consonants in Korean often have subtle pronunciation variations. At the end of the word, the focus is on a soft closure, stop, or release of there, rather than a strong and distinct sound. Congratulations that you've come so far to this part, and you basically have already learned all the sounds. But in the next video, we start talking about the rules in Korean. Because there are some rules when you need to know so that you can pronounce your sounds perfectly. 11. 2.1 Liaison: In this section of the course, we'll be covering six phonetic rules for Korean pronunciation. And the first rule that we are going to cover is Liason. When a syllable ends with a patm, that is a final consonant other than m or here. And it is followed by syllable that starts with a vowel. That final consonant will be pronounced as if it were part of the following syllable. To make things easier, we'll be looking into a few examples of how we can read the words by bringing over the final consonant to the next syllable. Remember, we are only going to bring this final consonant up to the next syllable. When we see a vowel that start with the next word, haugen gouge pap pap toge, toge cado cajal. Your turn is isa, ahi, ahi Chile, shell, goo, goo, goo, goo meme. In this lesson, we've covered how to deal liaison for our final consonants. In the next lesson, we are going to cover aspiration. 12. 2.2 Aspiration: In the last lesson, we've covered Liaison, in which we have to bring our final consonants up to link with the second syllable when it starts with a vowel. If you remember, liaison only applies to final consonants other than and here. What about here? Here we are going to apply the aspiration route to it. When here it comes before or after the consonants k, t, p, and these consonants are aspirated. Let's look at these four situations respectively. Here we'll create, for example, Moka here, plus we'll create Nora. Nora, plus here we'll create upada. He was it will create Cho. Cho Your turn. A take of the k, natata, makita, makeda, pat. That's how you can pronounce words with final consonants. He always pronounce it with the aspirated sound when it meets with the consonants. In the next video, we're going to cover a very special rules to when they meet the 13. 2.3 ㄷ, ㅌ +이: In this lesson, we'll be covering how we should pronounce tg and it when they meet with. When tgat and it are in the final consonant position and are followed by syllables that start with E, then they will be respectively pronounced as it and it. However, this rule does not apply to compound words. When tg meets, it will be pronounced as it. For example, when got meets, it will be pronounced as a, a. When it meets, it will be pronounced as your term, D hello, D hello DT. A cat at T t e and that's how you pronounce them. And in the next video, we'll be covering the pronunciation rule for posing. 14. 2.4 Voicing: In this lesson, we'll be covering how do you do voicing? Actually, this pronunciation rule we have covered before in the combination for vowels and consonants. Here we are just going to really revise. How do you do this? The consonants key to and are voiced like the double consonant when they are not the first letter. For example, keo will become Sound key Sound. It's not as a t. We will change it into sound. It's not all but a p. We change it into Sound. It's N, but it's Na, Na. Lastly, for Sound, we change it into which is a Sound, it's not a jojo. Your turn. Ugh, Shawn, pe, pe, poi, there. And that's how you pronounce these word with voicing. In the next lesson, we'll be covering the pronunciation rules of assimilation. 15. 2.5 Assimilation: In this lesson, we are going to talk about the rule of assimilation. With this rule, when these final consonants are followed by neon, um, or er, they will have to adjusted sound to sound alike. We'll be looking into these three groups of final consonants, one by one, when they are followed by Neon, mem or liar, respectively. Let's start off with the first grip of final consonants. When they are followed by neon, we'll have to change the pronunciation to, for example, when followed by they will be changed to this pronunciation of in Liar will be changed to the sound of neon so that they can sound similar. For example, On. Similarly, when followed by me, they will also have to change the sound to, for example, for the second group of final consonants, when followed by neon, it will be changed to a mem sound. For example, me, me, pu, pu, pan, pan. For the third group of final consonants, they are followed by non, um. Their sound will have to change to Neon. For example, Pip ship. Also note that the lier on the second word is also changed to Neon just to pronounce. Similarly, your turn to pronounce the sounds, um, hum, na, na huma huma pngip, pngip, moenda, nanda, pa, pa. That's how you can apply the rule of assimilation when pronouncing a words. In the next lesson, we are going to be covering the rule of tensification. 16. 2.6 Tensification: In this lesson, we are going to cover the last phonetic root intensification. When the consonants o, tg and are preceded with these final consonants, they will sound just like the double consonants. Now let's look at some charts to see how these consonants are going to change the sounds respectively. For ko, you will have to change it into Sound keo. Sound Kick for to. We change it into Santa. For we also change it into tech tech, for we change it into Sees. Lastly, we change it into now your turn to try reading some words. Tap, tap, cook, dam, cook. Dam, cook, cook. So pop san, pop san Coke, coke. She cut that, cut that. I'm so happy that you finished this course. It's not easy to have come so far to the last lesson. And you should be very proud of yourself. I can't wait to see what you can achieve with your Korean journey. In the next lesson, I'll tell you more about what's the next step after you finish the Korean alphabet. 17. Next Step: Now that you know how to read Korean, you may be curious. What's the next step To start off, know your purpose of learning Korean. Why are you learning Korean? Set your goals. Set some small and long term realistic goals for yourself and plan out your study. Vocabulary is a huge part in language learning. Study consistently, you can follow me on social media at inside Korea. That's where I'll be teaching Korean, mainly. See then by.