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Why you cannot hear it
What a Korean ear does to English sound — two weeks
단어를 몰라서 안 들리는 게 아닙니다. 한국어 음운 체계라는 체로 걸러서 다른 소리로 저장해 둔 것입니다. 1주차에는 그 체의 구멍 여섯 개(음절 · 받침 · r/l · 마찰음 · 모음 · 자음군)를 하나씩 열고, 2주차에는 소리가 이어질 때 벌어지는 일(강세 · 슈와 · 연음 · 축약 · 리듬 · 억양)을 다룹니다. 문법도 어휘도 다루지 않습니다. 오직 소리만.
- Lessons
- 14
- Days
- 14
- Minutes
- 172
- Quiz items
- 86
- To pass
- 80%
These lessons are explained in Korean. The quiz and the vocabulary are in the language you are learning, but the explanations have not been translated into yours yet.
Curriculum
Each lesson opens when the one before it is passed at 80%.
1주차 · 한국어 귀로 들을 때
- 1Korean earsWhy "strike" sounds like five beatsSee that the problem is syllable structure, not ability.
- When the batchim swallows the soundWhy bad, bat and back sound the same to youHear and produce English final consonants without turning them into batchim.
- One ㄹ, two sounds/r/ and /l/ are different places in the mouthProduce and distinguish /r/ and /l/ by tongue position.
- Bonus chapter 1Opens after lesson 3
- The fricatives Korean does not havef · v · th · zProduce and hear /f/ /v/ /θ/ /ð/ /z/.
- More than ten vowelssit / seat, bad / bed / budSeparate the English vowel pairs that Korean collapses.
- When consonants come in a rowspring · texts · strengthsSay consonant clusters without inserting vowels.
- Bonus chapter 2Opens after lesson 6
- Retuning the earWeek 1 review — no new soundsHear minimal pairs and tell which is which.
2주차 · 낱말이 아니라 덩어리로
- Stress decides the wordPHOtograph · phoTOGrapherFind word stress and see how the whole word changes with it.
- The most common sound is invisibleThe schwa /ə/Reduce unstressed vowels to /ə/ instead of pronouncing the spelling.
- Bonus chapter 3Opens after lesson 9
- There are no walls between wordsLinkingHear and produce linked speech across word boundaries.
- The words that are not in the dictionarygonna · wanna · gotta · 'd 'll 'veHear reduced forms and map them back to the full words.
- English is spoken in beatsContent words strong, function words squeezedDecide which words carry the beat and read with that rhythm.
- Bonus chapter 4Opens after lesson 12
- Intonation carries attitudeThe same words can be a question — or rudeUse rising and falling intonation, and avoid being misread.
- Now listen againThe same audio you could not follow two weeks agoFollow a short conversation unsubtitled and diagnose your own gaps.
Languages this course is written in
The lessons are explained in one language. Where a translation exists your screen uses it; where it does not, you see the original rather than a blank.
한국어
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