Pronunciation - Practicing using Phonics!

If you've been keeping up with our Mallo Bits, you should now be familiar with the sounds of each consonant and verb! But what does it sound like when we put them together to form REAL characters?

Let's learn an exercise that will get you reading Hangul in just 15 minutes with this simple exercise!

The phonics method is sounding out each of the letters in a character.

For example:

• 네 is made up to the consonant ㄴ ('n' sound) and the vowel ㅔ ('eh' sound).
• First, we sound out each ㄴ and ㅔ
• Then, we combine the sounds together to make the character: 네

네

네 = ㄴ + ㅔ

아니요

아 = ㅇ + ㅏ

니 = ㄴ + ㅣ

요 = ㅇ + ㅛ

고마워

고 = ㄱ + ㅗ

마 = ㅁ + ㅏ

워 = ㅇ + ㅜ + ㅓ 

Keep practicing with different characters! Because the Korean alphabet is all based on sounds and phonetics, you should be able to read Hangul in no time with this exercise!

In the next Bit, we will go through how to read 받침 (batchim)!