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Learn How To Read And Write Using Hangul (Korean Alphabet): Lesson 4

안녕하세요? That is how you write ‘annyeonghasaeyo,’ the Korean greeting, using Hangul. You could probably recognise all the vowels, right? If not, you might want to quickly go back to Lesson 3 to refresh your memory. If this is the first time you are seeing any of this, you might want to go back to Lesson 1 and you will catch up soon enough.

For the rest of you, as promised, we will look at double vowels in this lesson. So without further ado, here they are.

ㅐ

This character looks like a combination of ‘ㅏ’ and ‘ㅣ.’ It is commonly written as ‘ae’ and it has the same sound that ‘a’ has in words such as pan, man and ban.

ㅒ

Similar to the previous one but with an extra horizontal line in the middle. As you remember from the previous lesson, that usually means you just need to put a ‘y’ at the front. Hence this one is commonly spelled as ‘yae.’

ㅔ

The above character looks like it is a combination of ‘ㅓ’ and ‘ㅣ.’ It is commonly spelled using only the letter ‘e’ and has the same sound as ‘e’ in words such as pen, men and Ben.

ㅖ

I am sure you have the hang of it now. This one is usually spelled as ‘ye.’

와

A combination between the characters ‘ㅗ’ and ‘ㅏ.’ If you are not sure what the ‘ㅇ’ indicates, you can learn about it in Lesson 2. We will cover it again when we do consonants. For now, though, all you need to know is that ‘와’ is spelled as ‘wa’ and sounds the same as ‘wha’ in what.

왜

A combination of ‘ㅗ’ and ‘ㅐ.’ It is spelled as ‘wae’ and sounds similar to ‘whe’ in when and where.

외

A combination of ‘ㅗ’ and ‘ㅣ.’ It is mostly spelled as ‘oe’ and sounds the same as ‘we’ in weld.

위

‘ㅜ’ and ‘ㅣ’ put together. This one is spelled as ‘we’ and you say it exactly as you read that. You can also think of the way you would say yes in French.

의

‘ㅡ’ and ‘ㅣ’ put together to spell ‘ui.’ Bit difficult to explain the enunciation of this one on a blog but the best I can do is uh-eee. Sorry. Hope that helps.

Well, that would be it for this post. In the next one we start looking at consonants.

Thank you and have a good one. 안녕히 가세요.

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