🔤 Hangul — Read Korean in 30 Minutes

Learn to read Hangul from zero: every basic letter with its sound (English)

All Questions & Answers (50)

1. What is the Korean alphabet called?Hangul (한글)
2. Who created Hangul?King Sejong, in the 1440s
3. How many basic letters does Hangul have?24 — 14 consonants and 10 vowels
4. Are Korean letters written in a line like English?No — they are stacked into syllable blocks
5. How do you read 가?ga
6. How do you read 나?na
7. How do you read 다?da
8. How do you read 라?ra / la
9. How do you read 마?ma
10. How do you read 바?ba
11. How do you read 사?sa
12. How do you read 아?a (silent ㅇ at the start)
13. How do you read 자?ja
14. How do you read 차?cha
15. How do you read 카?ka
16. How do you read 타?ta
17. How do you read 파?pa
18. How do you read 하?ha
19. What sound does ㄱ make?g / k
20. What sound does ㄴ make?n
21. What sound does ㄷ make?d / t
22. What sound does ㄹ make?r / l
23. What sound does ㅁ make?m
24. What sound does ㅂ make?b / p
25. What sound does ㅅ make?s
26. What sound does ㅇ make?Silent at the start, 'ng' at the end
27. What sound does ㅈ make?j
28. What sound does ㅎ make?h
29. What vowel is ㅏ?a
30. What vowel is ㅓ?eo (like 'u' in 'sun')
31. What vowel is ㅗ?o
32. What vowel is ㅜ?u
33. What vowel is ㅡ?eu
34. What vowel is ㅣ?i
35. What vowel is ㅑ?ya
36. What vowel is ㅕ?yeo
37. What vowel is ㅛ?yo
38. What vowel is ㅠ?yu
39. What vowel is ㅐ?ae
40. What vowel is ㅔ?e
41. What are the double consonants?ㄲ ㄸ ㅃ ㅆ ㅉ — tense, harder sounds
42. What is a batchim?The final consonant at the bottom of a syllable block
43. Read 한국hanguk — Korea
44. Read 서울Seoul
45. Read 김치gimchi — kimchi
46. Read 사랑sarang — love
47. Read 친구chingu — friend
48. Read 음악eumak — music
49. Read 춤chum — dance
50. Why is Hangul called easy to learn?The letter shapes hint at how the mouth makes each sound

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