WOW! Half a million subscribers! Its a shame that this channel doesn't grow as quickly as you might think. Your channel (and website) are maybe the best way to learn Korean outside a school setting.
HELPFUL!!! Once I started getting into learning more seriously, I realized that listening and repeating is a much better way to sound natural because of these issues.
Do you have any advice for beginners? i started last week and now i know the sound of hangul consonants and vowels but everytime i try read words it sounds so wrong compared to the actual pronounciation😞
There are more assimilation rules than the ones you talk about in this video, right? I noticed that sometimes single consonants ㄷㄱㅂㅈ are pronounced like double consonants ㄸㄲㅃㅉ or aspirated consonants ㅌㅋㅍㅊ in some situations, e.g. when ㅎ is involved. Could you talk about that in a future video while you are at pronunciation?
Yeah, it’s a really good point. There’s _tensification_ (e.g., 학교 is pronounced [학꾜]) and _aspiration_ (e.g., 좋다 is pronounced as [조타]) and lots of others. It would be good if TTMIK did a little series involving them, since they come up all the time.
Jeff W All obstruents become tense after syllable-final merged /p/, /t/, and /k/. Not sure about aspiration, though. There’s also h-deletion following nasals (/an.ha/ -> [a.na]) and some other changes.
I kinda always said ‘합니다’ and ‘감사합니다’ and ‘입니다’ and so on with an ‘ㅁ’ than a ‘ㅂ’. I think it’s because when I watch something in korean I sometimes repeat how they say it. (I actually watch a lot in korean) But this was actually really helpful and I learned some new things. And it’s funny to think about that I said these things naturally. I’m actually now a little proud of myself about my progress in learning korean. 😄
I just wanted to express how amazing these videos by TTMIK are. You guys cover both pronunciation and grammar and always help me in my studies. These Q&A videos are so descriptive and helpful and you guys give such great advice - and all on TH-cam for whenever I need to access it. Thanks you guys!
oh yeah, and thanks for pointing out an example in English too! Most languages have sound changes that don't make sense to non-native speakers, and people might not realize this about their native language and then come across it in Korean or another language and feel confused, when really it's not uncommon. For example, "don't you" can somehow turn into "don't cha", and in German "haben wir" can turn into something like "hamma", "gehen wir" can turn into "gehma", etc. lol
I work in the shipyard industry, so my boss would always say shim-yard backlog - banglog. I heard also words 100,000 won shimmanwon. Hanla = Halla Sinla = Silla
Waaaa this is the best teaching Korean channel I’ve ever seen. I’ve had this questions for weeks now. I love that you talk about where to position our tongues to make certain sounds! It sure helps!!!
all i'm thinking is wow, this guy is so smart. i don't think its easy to explain things like this in your mother tongue, but he does! and makes it easy to understand! thankyou so much :-)
just heard 트와이스 채영 say "wake me up" but as you explained she replaced the sound 'k' from 'wake' and said 'ng' before the 'm' in 'me' and i was reminded of this video hehe. really helpful
I am SO incredibly excited! I'm starting my Bachelor's in Linguistics in a month and will have a Korean beginner's course as a part of it. I watched Crash Course Linguistics on youtube and it explained this phenomenon. As soon as you presented the issue in the beginning of the video the consonants M and B and the word "assimilation" in the title in the video clicked for me! I am just so excited I "predicted" what this will be and also SO EXCITED to study the basics of Linguistics _alongside_ beginner Korean! Well, I three weeks until the start, so I'll have a bit of a head start with Korean, but still. These bits are so amazing. I am so excited for how the nittu gritty of Linguistics will change how I learn a nee language from now on. I AM SO EXCITED!
To any Korean learners, there is sometimes this ㅅ that connects 2 words, like 빗물 (비 and 물) or 깻잎 (깨 and 잎). But when ㅅ meets ㅇ in this case it's actually pronounced 깬닢 which was a really confusing thing to me. This has no relation with this video I think but I wanted to say it
When you pronounce 깻+입 many times fast it becomes 깬닙. First it changes to 깻+닙 then it changes again to 깬닙. First, ㅅ affects ㅇ to change ㄴ (깻닙) then ㄴ affects ㅅ to change to ㄴ(깬닙) reversely. That 'a well known rule in Korean pronunciation (Consonant assimilation). Good luck.
Hello ttmik!!! Thank you for making your lessons. I'm in korea right now and koreans are pretty impressed when I talk to them in korean (although I mostly get weird looks)
Finally a video for this question I’ve had forever! I've asked this question many times but no one, not even native Korean can answer me. i've also posted this @ttmik on twitter before too but i guess it never got chosen to be answered or not worth to be answered. I am glad someone asked again!
Thank you so much. I was hearing and catching myself saying things like this and concerned i was accidentally saying something bad, not just badly but whole different wrong words... this is so helpful. Thank you
I just got to this today in my 한글 마스터 book. This is going to tough to memorize all of them written in the book but nice to have a video also to see some example and hear.
Good teaching , my doubts are clear Actually in all languages native speakers pronounce their own language like this 👍 But your teaching is simply clear 👏👏
I’m an intermediate learner who isn’t using a standard curriculum so although I should probably know all of those things, and some of it is intuitive, it’s super helpful to have a native Korean speaker confirm it so clearly.
Every time I come here I learn something new.....Once I get a job, I will buy all the TTMIK books from my first salary. Respect you Hyunwoo songsaengnim and all the TTMIK crew
now that I am getting familliar with grammars, I am now focusing my pronounciation to enhance my speaking skills. I have a long way to get familiar with it also. I have a really twisted tongue😭😭
SO helpful, best channel I’ve found so far,I don’t even know the full alphabet, but this helped me definitely learn some pronunciation and obviously assimilation :)) :)) will be looking through your channel ty so much!!!!!!!! This was soo helpful omg
I was always trying to find a way to say ~bnida by trying to make the b less "present". Now I know I wasn't hearing things wrong every time I heard ~mnida. So a big thank you for this explanation. Love your videos. 감사합니다.
감사합니다. Similar condition in Burmese language. Words are not pronounced as spelling. We called it "ရေးတော့အမှန် ဖတ်တော့အသံ". We must write spellings in correct and standard way but pronounce naturally.
Well, what can I say!... You are the best teacher, or better language expert I have ever met. You simplify everything and explain in detail no other would, you have a real connection to the language.
That was a very good video. Thanks. I, like most learners, get often confused about the differences in the pronunciation and couldn't find a proper explanation.
Hey, I was just pronouncing 'Seol-nal' (I don't have Hangeul on my laptop keyboard) But Nieun can also be pronounced with your tongue on the roof of the mouth like Rieul, and SeolNal can be said without shifting your tongue around. Just an observation
It's kinda difficult even to Korean as well. The only thing I can tell you is 'Space Bar in Korean' has some rules, but it's very complex and needs long time to explain and understand.
Honestly I am just getting started learning Korean, and learning consonant assimilation is a bit tricky and a bit hard to memorize all the rules when it comes to a said word, but honestly I’m actually glad, because the examples he gave us, like originally spelled were hard to read like it originally was shown but when consonant assimilation appeared it was easier to be said.
I love your podcasts and videos! I'm a korean American and I listen to your grammar lessons and iyagi series while working. I'm learning to reconnect with my korean side and I'll be trying to teach English in Korea next year! Thanks again!
An example of this consonant assimilation: B.A.P's song "Wake Me Up" sounds like "Wang me up". I thought of this right away when Hyunwoo mentioned it at the end of the video. One of those fun little things about listening to non native speakers.
This is very helpful to understand the korean pronounciation. I came up how ㄹ and ㄴ are combined after almost 3years of learning the language. I usually dont hear korean, since i still live in my country
Wow... This helped me so much. I started learning Korean two months with your books, the website and videos like this one and right now I am at a point were I begin to understand bits of conversations when I watch Korean TV shows or interviews. This gets me so excited. Thank you so much for all the hard work.
What tips would Hyun Woo give to people who have, before learning Korean, been exposed to bad/unsuitable romanization of Korean? As a person whose native language is not English (Croatian is my mother tongue), I've gotten into a situation where the sounds I hear are different to what I had expected to hear (names in particular), and it's impairing my ability to hear and pronounce Korean words. English-based romanization is a minefield. =(
This must be why I have problems with spelling things in hungul since what I'm hearing is different than what is written... Thanks for clearing that up! 💖
Great video! I've heard other Korean learners mention terms like "nasalization" and that sounded confusing and daunting so I didn't want to look into it but this was a really clear and helpful explanation of the topic :) 감사합니다!
Hello..I loved this way to learn Korean language thank you so much for teaching..but I have one doubt, I heard in most of the audio's something repeated like majeyo or may b vajeyo along with ne wht actually that ne majeyo or ne vajeyo means ?? Or else I am about to complete level 1 happily..this Indian girl is a fan of TTMIK..🤗😋 namaste🙏...
There is a pretty easy answer to that. It is shortened for phonetic reasons. B+N=M Similar to N+P=MP in Japanese "kampai" which is actually "kanpai". It is just so much easier to say. This happens in many dialects of many languages all around the world too. As for "grand" I think this might have been a silent d all along, because it came from French where it is also silent.
I don't think the d in grand was always silent. It's almost definitely just a place assimilation. Even where English has borrowed vocabulary from French it rarely has borrowed the French pronunciation (c.f. "Detroit", which is absolutely not pronounced /de.tʁwa/") or you end up with both, like "herb" where Americans don't pronounce the h (like French) but Brits (at least for the last 100 years or so) do. In careful speech (i.e. a list reading task) the d is pronounced even in "grandmother" and certainly for "grand", but then in casual speech "grand" on a sentence boundary (e.g. "I think it's grand") ends up with an unreleased d and listener's brains fill in the d.
As a learner of the language, something that I realized is that Hangul is not representative of sounds, but rather of mouth shape, both inside and outside (Not to say that they have nothing to do with sound, but the mostly define how the tounge and mouth move). If you follow this mentallity (and it WILL be hard because of how one might be use to speaking western languages and how their alphabets function), then many of these "rules" or "irregularities" make much more sense. Using this, one might also be able to anticipate these more natural soundings. Not working? I have the same problem, but that is often because I am tensing either my tounge or my mouth itself. Relax and smooth out the motion of whatever word you are saying and the changed pronunciation should come naturally. This mentallity should also help you with pronouncing hard words. Spoiler: They are hard for natives too, so they just slur them. Fluency = laziness.
This is so helpful! Thanks Hyunwoo! Now I'll hopefully be less confused when I read Korean words but hear them being said a bit differently to how I'd expect.
Thank you for this video. I was confused about it as well and now I have an answer. This assimilation we have in my language as well, before learning Korean language, I thought only we have such thing, but I was wrong 😊. Anyway. Thank you.
my biggest problem isn't so much the assimilation, but the fear of saying a completely different word
Yeah.. that bothers me too hahaha
+1
can I have coke?
@@ebonymaw8457 omg i remember that video.....
Same xD
Sometimes in languages I don't care why it's like that I just take it as rule in the langauge
Yeah. All kids in the world speak well without learning pronunciation rules.
this is the best approach lol. there's no point in arguing with a language like "why are you like this", you just accept it and move on
Yes so do i
WOW! Half a million subscribers! Its a shame that this channel doesn't grow as quickly as you might think. Your channel (and website) are maybe the best way to learn Korean outside a school setting.
Once again you guys made Korean language a pleasant thing to learn! Thank you so much!
HELPFUL!!! Once I started getting into learning more seriously, I realized that listening and repeating is a much better way to sound natural because of these issues.
Do you have any advice for beginners? i started last week and now i know the sound of hangul consonants and vowels but everytime i try read words it sounds so wrong compared to the actual pronounciation😞
You are the best teacher. You explain things so thoroughly and your demeanor is so fitting for an instructor. Love your videos. :)
I was literally sitting here thinking the same thing. He's definitely meant to be an instructor/leadership role.
There are more assimilation rules than the ones you talk about in this video, right? I noticed that sometimes single consonants ㄷㄱㅂㅈ are pronounced like double consonants ㄸㄲㅃㅉ or aspirated consonants ㅌㅋㅍㅊ in some situations, e.g. when ㅎ is involved. Could you talk about that in a future video while you are at pronunciation?
Yeah, it’s a really good point. There’s _tensification_ (e.g., 학교 is pronounced [학꾜]) and _aspiration_ (e.g., 좋다 is pronounced as [조타]) and lots of others. It would be good if TTMIK did a little series involving them, since they come up all the time.
Yes, there are much more. We just mentioned some ones that are less obvious in this video :)
Well, to me 좋다 > 조타 is not very obvious 😅 so a follow-up video would be immensely helpful!
@@smuecke I think that one comes from the 'h' (sorry no hangul keyboard) batchim rules
Jeff W All obstruents become tense after syllable-final merged /p/, /t/, and /k/.
Not sure about aspiration, though.
There’s also h-deletion following nasals (/an.ha/ -> [a.na]) and some other changes.
I kinda always said ‘합니다’ and ‘감사합니다’ and ‘입니다’ and so on with an ‘ㅁ’ than a ‘ㅂ’. I think it’s because when I watch something in korean I sometimes repeat how they say it. (I actually watch a lot in korean) But this was actually really helpful and I learned some new things.
And it’s funny to think about that I said these things naturally. I’m actually now a little proud of myself about my progress in learning korean. 😄
I just wanted to express how amazing these videos by TTMIK are. You guys cover both pronunciation and grammar and always help me in my studies. These Q&A videos are so descriptive and helpful and you guys give such great advice - and all on TH-cam for whenever I need to access it. Thanks you guys!
it would really be great if you guys made some more videos about rules like these that change the sounds...
I actually posted this question on HiNative! But now I’m glad I have a video that I can refer back to. 감사합니다 😊
oh yeah, and thanks for pointing out an example in English too! Most languages have sound changes that don't make sense to non-native speakers, and people might not realize this about their native language and then come across it in Korean or another language and feel confused, when really it's not uncommon. For example, "don't you" can somehow turn into "don't cha", and in German "haben wir" can turn into something like "hamma", "gehen wir" can turn into "gehma", etc. lol
I work in the shipyard industry, so my boss would always say shim-yard
backlog - banglog.
I heard also words
100,000 won shimmanwon.
Hanla = Halla
Sinla = Silla
Waaaa this is the best teaching Korean channel I’ve ever seen. I’ve had this questions for weeks now. I love that you talk about where to position our tongues to make certain sounds! It sure helps!!!
oh my goodness! this is incredibly helpful, thank you!
all i'm thinking is wow, this guy is so smart. i don't think its easy to explain things like this in your mother tongue, but he does! and makes it easy to understand! thankyou so much :-)
just heard 트와이스 채영 say "wake me up" but as you explained she replaced the sound 'k' from 'wake' and said 'ng' before the 'm' in 'me' and i was reminded of this video hehe. really helpful
That's great!! :D
And also you mang me feel special
I am SO incredibly excited! I'm starting my Bachelor's in Linguistics in a month and will have a Korean beginner's course as a part of it. I watched Crash Course Linguistics on youtube and it explained this phenomenon. As soon as you presented the issue in the beginning of the video the consonants M and B and the word "assimilation" in the title in the video clicked for me! I am just so excited I "predicted" what this will be and also SO EXCITED to study the basics of Linguistics _alongside_ beginner Korean! Well, I three weeks until the start, so I'll have a bit of a head start with Korean, but still. These bits are so amazing. I am so excited for how the nittu gritty of Linguistics will change how I learn a nee language from now on. I AM SO EXCITED!
I love your classes!!! Thank you very much for your work and for teach us. You are a great teacher!
I am learning 한극어 and am stuck on sound change rules and this truly helped.
Finally here with my second video! And, again, it was very useful (I really enjoyed it) ^.^
To any Korean learners, there is sometimes this ㅅ that connects 2 words, like 빗물 (비 and 물) or 깻잎 (깨 and 잎). But when ㅅ meets ㅇ in this case it's actually pronounced 깬닢 which was a really confusing thing to me. This has no relation with this video I think but I wanted to say it
When you pronounce 깻+입 many times fast it becomes 깬닙. First it changes to 깻+닙 then it changes again to 깬닙. First, ㅅ affects ㅇ to change ㄴ (깻닙) then ㄴ affects ㅅ to change to ㄴ(깬닙) reversely. That 'a well known rule in Korean pronunciation (Consonant assimilation). Good luck.
In this case, ㅅ is used as of. 깨 is sesami and 잎 is leaf. So 깨 + ㅅ +잎 is leaf of sesami.
Your way of teaching is just osom! Completely understable.
Hello ttmik!!! Thank you for making your lessons. I'm in korea right now and koreans are pretty impressed when I talk to them in korean (although I mostly get weird looks)
선현우 성생님 감사합니다. 🙏🏻🤗🤗🌻🌻
Finally a video for this question I’ve had forever! I've asked this question many times but no one, not even native Korean can answer me. i've also posted this @ttmik on twitter before too but i guess it never got chosen to be answered or not worth to be answered. I am glad someone asked again!
Thank you so much. I was hearing and catching myself saying things like this and concerned i was accidentally saying something bad, not just badly but whole different wrong words... this is so helpful. Thank you
I just got to this today in my 한글 마스터 book. This is going to tough to memorize all of them written in the book but nice to have a video also to see some example and hear.
Good teaching , my doubts are clear
Actually in all languages native speakers pronounce their own language like this 👍
But your teaching is simply clear 👏👏
Please continue part And 감삼합니다
I'm glad I found this video. I've been having so much trouble with reading hangul the way it's supposed to be pronounced. This has been a great help.
I’m an intermediate learner who isn’t using a standard curriculum so although I should probably know all of those things, and some of it is intuitive, it’s super helpful to have a native Korean speaker confirm it so clearly.
Every time I come here I learn something new.....Once I get a job, I will buy all the TTMIK books from my first salary. Respect you Hyunwoo songsaengnim and all the TTMIK crew
Thank you so much ❤️
Learning while music in the background ... wolverine dont read into it it's just music ... I will keep learning...she has a great book store voice ..
Best channel for learning Korean!👍
now that I am getting familliar with grammars, I am now focusing my pronounciation to enhance my speaking skills. I have a long way to get familiar with it also. I have a really twisted tongue😭😭
감사합니다.성상님
SO helpful, best channel I’ve found so far,I don’t even know the full alphabet, but this helped me definitely learn some pronunciation and obviously assimilation :)) :)) will be looking through your channel ty so much!!!!!!!! This was soo helpful omg
You are an incredible teacher. And i get drawn to working harder every time..
Can you do a video on historical korean during the Joseon Dynasty? Would love to know more.
The English 'nickname' often sounds like 'ningname' By many Koreans. And the Korean pop song 'Pick Me Up', the singers pronounce it 'Ping me Up'.
I was always trying to find a way to say ~bnida by trying to make the b less "present". Now I know I wasn't hearing things wrong every time I heard ~mnida. So a big thank you for this explanation. Love your videos. 감사합니다.
Best teacher 👍🏻
감사합니다.
Similar condition in Burmese language. Words are not pronounced as spelling.
We called it "ရေးတော့အမှန် ဖတ်တော့အသံ".
We must write spellings in correct and standard way but pronounce naturally.
wow wow thank you so much this helped SO much. the only video that’s helped me.
Well, what can I say!... You are the best teacher, or better language expert I have ever met. You simplify everything and explain in detail no other would, you have a real connection to the language.
Thank you!!!! ^_^
감사합니다!
안녕하세요.
신문
설날
국물
헌리
톱모델
빈란드
습니다
This is an amazing lesson..
Korean Q & A is very good
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇👍👍👍👍👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
How they pronounce "take my hand" is bloody adorable
That was a very good video. Thanks. I, like most learners, get often confused about the differences in the pronunciation and couldn't find a proper explanation.
Thank you for learnings, it help me to understand why koreans speak English differently😊
Fantastic Sir
I really want to write in hungul alphabet
This is seriously so cool to know. Helps a lot.. Thank You for uploading this!
Hey, I was just pronouncing 'Seol-nal' (I don't have Hangeul on my laptop keyboard) But Nieun can also be pronounced with your tongue on the roof of the mouth like Rieul, and SeolNal can be said without shifting your tongue around. Just an observation
Thanks for clearing this!!! Self taught learners must sure have such questions 😂
감사합니다
How to know when to 'space bar' in Korean?
It's kinda difficult even to Korean as well.
The only thing I can tell you is 'Space Bar in Korean' has some rules, but it's very complex and needs long time to explain and understand.
Same is my doubt 😅
Just put after completing a word.. Usually for normal words the keyboard will space out syllables the right way
Nice teacher. 😊
Honestly I am just getting started learning Korean, and learning consonant assimilation is a bit tricky and a bit hard to memorize all the rules when it comes to a said word, but honestly I’m actually glad, because the examples he gave us, like originally spelled were hard to read like it originally was shown but when consonant assimilation appeared it was easier to be said.
Excellent tutorial. 감사합니다
Very good explanation, with love from Russia.
Omg. I need this taught to me in all Korean words lol. Soooooo helpful! Thank you! ❤️
I love your podcasts and videos! I'm a korean American and I listen to your grammar lessons and iyagi series while working. I'm learning to reconnect with my korean side and I'll be trying to teach English in Korea next year! Thanks again!
재미있게 봤습니다!! Absolutely one of the most useful videos ever uploaded!!
Obrigada pela aula. Vocês são maravilhosos, explicam muito bem!😊
thank you so much
your lesson cleared my many doubts today
you are really so grateful to me
I was doing other stuff and listening this at the same time and then suddenly I hear Finland😂 Thank you now I know how to pronounce my country better👌
This channel is very very helpful... My Korean has been improving very very fast ☺💜
My doubts are clear here , good informative videos thank you 🙏
An example of this consonant assimilation: B.A.P's song "Wake Me Up" sounds like "Wang me up". I thought of this right away when Hyunwoo mentioned it at the end of the video. One of those fun little things about listening to non native speakers.
This is great. I was always soooooo confused about this lol. Thank you!
This is very helpful to understand the korean pronounciation. I came up how ㄹ and ㄴ are combined after almost 3years of learning the language. I usually dont hear korean, since i still live in my country
Wow... This helped me so much.
I started learning Korean two months with your books, the website and videos like this one and right now I am at a point were I begin to understand bits of conversations when I watch Korean TV shows or interviews. This gets me so excited.
Thank you so much for all the hard work.
감사합니다!! ♥️
this is the video I was finding over TH-cam for so long! finally talk to me in Korean got me covered.
This kind of video can save lifes. Thank you very much. 😃
Thank you! I found this extremely helpful and interesting, as I am just starting to learn Korean!
What tips would Hyun Woo give to people who have, before learning Korean, been exposed to bad/unsuitable romanization of Korean? As a person whose native language is not English (Croatian is my mother tongue), I've gotten into a situation where the sounds I hear are different to what I had expected to hear (names in particular), and it's impairing my ability to hear and pronounce Korean words. English-based romanization is a minefield. =(
Thank you teacher!😊
This must be why I have problems with spelling things in hungul since what I'm hearing is different than what is written... Thanks for clearing that up! 💖
This was so interesting! I had actually been wondering about this just recently. Thank you!
Thanks for answering my question, really helped me well. Your pronunciation of my name is really spot on as well.. 감사합니다!!.
Thank you for the lesson. It is very helpful. :)
현우 선생님 that shirt looks really good on you! thank you for another interesting lesson! i am learning a lot :0 감사합니다
insightful as usual, thank you
Great video! I've heard other Korean learners mention terms like "nasalization" and that sounded confusing and daunting so I didn't want to look into it but this was a really clear and helpful explanation of the topic :) 감사합니다!
Hello..I loved this way to learn Korean language thank you so much for teaching..but I have one doubt, I heard in most of the audio's something repeated like majeyo or may b vajeyo along with ne wht actually that ne majeyo or ne vajeyo means ?? Or else I am about to complete level 1 happily..this Indian girl is a fan of TTMIK..🤗😋 namaste🙏...
Thank you oppa☺
I love ur channel....period!
You are the best !
Ah so its a matter of fluidity! I believe this is covered in your Hangul Master book with many examples.
5:38 the second syllable STARTING 날
You're amazing. I love your channel. :)
There is a pretty easy answer to that. It is shortened for phonetic reasons. B+N=M Similar to N+P=MP in Japanese "kampai" which is actually "kanpai". It is just so much easier to say. This happens in many dialects of many languages all around the world too. As for "grand" I think this might have been a silent d all along, because it came from French where it is also silent.
I don't think the d in grand was always silent. It's almost definitely just a place assimilation. Even where English has borrowed vocabulary from French it rarely has borrowed the French pronunciation (c.f. "Detroit", which is absolutely not pronounced /de.tʁwa/") or you end up with both, like "herb" where Americans don't pronounce the h (like French) but Brits (at least for the last 100 years or so) do. In careful speech (i.e. a list reading task) the d is pronounced even in "grandmother" and certainly for "grand", but then in casual speech "grand" on a sentence boundary (e.g. "I think it's grand") ends up with an unreleased d and listener's brains fill in the d.
Good point. In German it's different. When we borrow from French we keep the pronunciation so in German this has a silent d.
As a learner of the language, something that I realized is that Hangul is not representative of sounds, but rather of mouth shape, both inside and outside (Not to say that they have nothing to do with sound, but the mostly define how the tounge and mouth move). If you follow this mentallity (and it WILL be hard because of how one might be use to speaking western languages and how their alphabets function), then many of these "rules" or "irregularities" make much more sense. Using this, one might also be able to anticipate these more natural soundings.
Not working? I have the same problem, but that is often because I am tensing either my tounge or my mouth itself. Relax and smooth out the motion of whatever word you are saying and the changed pronunciation should come naturally. This mentallity should also help you with pronouncing hard words. Spoiler: They are hard for natives too, so they just slur them.
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This is so helpful! Thanks Hyunwoo! Now I'll hopefully be less confused when I read Korean words but hear them being said a bit differently to how I'd expect.
Awesome video!
Thank you for this video. I was confused about it as well and now I have an answer. This assimilation we have in my language as well, before learning Korean language, I thought only we have such thing, but I was wrong 😊. Anyway. Thank you.
great video thank you
I found your explanations very useful. Thanks so much!