Integrated Korean: Beginning 1

Integrated Korean

Beginning 1

Young-mee Cho Hyo Sang Lee Carol Schulz Ho-min Sohn Sung-Ock Sohn

KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language

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Preface ... Introduc :

This textbook series has been developed by the Korean Language Education and Research Center CKLEAR) with the support of the Korea Foundation.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Integrated Korean: beginning I / Young-mee Cho ... let al.J. p.

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(KLEAR textbooks in Korean language)

ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-2174-6 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-IO : 0-8248-2174-2 (cloth: alk. paper) -

ISBN- 13: 978-0-8248-2342-9 (pbk. : alk. pape r)

ISBN- IO; 0-8248-2342-7 (pbk. : alk. pa per)

I. Korean language-Textbooks for foreign speakers-English. I. Cho, Young-mee. II. Seri es.

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The distinction between M and ~l is lost in casual speech, both being pronounced as ~l, but is retained in writing as well as in extremely careful pronunciation.

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Han'gOI and Pronunciation

1 Practice 8 1 Repeat after your instructor in pronouncing the following

-... - although when .;r is

syllable blocks several times, and then identify in writing

r.g . it means

the ones pronounced by your instructor.

u1­ 2.

7l

7}:,

:;red iT! the

Practice 9

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.ill. ,

it,

7~,

~1

Read the following syllables in the order given until you become completely fluent. Dictionary entries follow this order.

~ IS 2. -j

diphthong lefr-to-right.

7},

7B,

7}:,

7t

71,

711,

Jl ,

.ill. ,

T,

it,

:1.,

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~1,

Diphthongs with the semivowel wand the diphthong iii T here are six diphthongs beginning with the sound w (as in English w.eek,

.Fashington, work). These are graphically expressed by combining two simple -:owel letters. The letters ...1- and T are used to represent the semivowel sound w. T here is an idiosyncratic diphthong which consists of -

simple vowel

::l.l

simple vowel

=

diphthong

-.L

+

t

=

-4-

wa

-.L

+

H

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-4l

wae

-.L

+

=

J-l

we

T

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-l

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--r~

w6

T

+

-11

=

rl1

we

T

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=

-rl

Wl

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--1

ili

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~

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and 1.

,::-.eing pronounced -onunciation.

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Introduction

I Practice 10 I Practice proper stroke order in writing the combinations

Conso

above. Exampre:

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I.e ter shapes

~

The letters . q and ,il, which used to be pronounced differently, are now pronounced identically as we, although the distinction is kept in writing . Combinations of -'-- + -l, -'-- + -11, T + t, and T + H are not permitted. This is due to the so-called vowel harmony principle in Korean, which does not allow a bright vowel ( t, -'--) to be combined with a dark vowel (T, -l) within a syllable, although either may combine with the neutral vowell, as in H, -11, ..q and -n. Thus, for example, the syllable blocks :i'-\-, T~, i'~, and ;>~I are acceptable, whereas

J1:1, ..:r+,

.J1lj, and TH are not. The diphthong --1 is unstable and is pronounced as ii or iii (in word-initial position not preceded by a consonant) and i (in non-initial position and after a con sonant in initial position). For example, the word Qj ~ 'discussion' is pronounced as ii.non or iii. non ( 0 in the syllable block Qj is a silent or zero consonant). ~ 'white' is pronounced only as hin because --1 is preceded by a consonant, "f>. (In addition, the possessive particle Q.1 'of' is uniquely pronounced like 011 e.)

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Practice 11 I Repeat after your instructor in pronouncing the following syllable blocks several times, and then write down the ones pronounced by the instructor.

§jJ, I

Practice 12 1 Read and write the following syllable blocks many times the order given. This is the order that Korean students learn for dictionary and other uses. (a)

7},

7~,

7F,

7W,

(b)

7-1,

711,

~,

~1,

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Jl ,

I!} ,

:i'J],

~,

.liZ. ,

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T,

..:r~ ,

:r~l,

-11,

Tr,

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J,

J1,

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