Learning to let it go!
Posted: March 31st, 2011 10:38 pm
As Tim requested I am posting my question and his (rather humorous) response in the forum so others may benefit from it as well...
Hey there.
I am doing my regular review of past lessons and have come across something that is perplexing me.
In 맛없어, the ᄉ is pronounced as (t) rather than (s) due to the absent object marking particle…this leads me to wonder then about 셋 and 넷. Are these ᄉ’s also pronounced at (t) due to a missing particle? And if not then 왜?
Thanks.
Cindy
timandyou says:
Thursday at 12:06 pm
Hello Cindy,
This is Tim from KC101.com.
Can you visit our Forum (Koreanclass101.com) and leave the question there?
Normally 맛없어 is pronounced as [ma-deop-sseo] 마덥써.
Why!??? Why don’t you simply think that writing and speaking is different!?
Yes, of course… there are rules for pronunciation but, please let it go…
What if I ask you about these questions…?
1. between “him” & “hi”, why is “i” sounded different?
2. between “climb” & “cinema” & “can”, why is “c” sounded different?
3. in “climb”, why is “b” silent?
and many many more…
Please let it go… why?
because I am pretty sure that you will be getting annoyed by those rules sooner or later… The best way to learn vocab (in my opinion) is simply to write the word while saying it.
Thanks for the comment,
Please post your comment (question) on the Forum.
There will be other listeners who have the same question…
(why don’t we share?)
cheers,
Tim
(BTW if you really want to know the answers to those questions Tim asked my sister (a 3rd Grade teacher) said she would be HAPPY to tell you!)
I however will be letting this go and pressing on through my Newbie series so I can get to the upper level stuff where I shall be happily plagued by the rules of Korean grammar!
Cheers all!
Hey there.
I am doing my regular review of past lessons and have come across something that is perplexing me.
In 맛없어, the ᄉ is pronounced as (t) rather than (s) due to the absent object marking particle…this leads me to wonder then about 셋 and 넷. Are these ᄉ’s also pronounced at (t) due to a missing particle? And if not then 왜?
Thanks.
Cindy
timandyou says:
Thursday at 12:06 pm
Hello Cindy,
This is Tim from KC101.com.
Can you visit our Forum (Koreanclass101.com) and leave the question there?
Normally 맛없어 is pronounced as [ma-deop-sseo] 마덥써.
Why!??? Why don’t you simply think that writing and speaking is different!?
Yes, of course… there are rules for pronunciation but, please let it go…
What if I ask you about these questions…?
1. between “him” & “hi”, why is “i” sounded different?
2. between “climb” & “cinema” & “can”, why is “c” sounded different?
3. in “climb”, why is “b” silent?
and many many more…
Please let it go… why?
because I am pretty sure that you will be getting annoyed by those rules sooner or later… The best way to learn vocab (in my opinion) is simply to write the word while saying it.
Thanks for the comment,
Please post your comment (question) on the Forum.
There will be other listeners who have the same question…
(why don’t we share?)
cheers,
Tim
(BTW if you really want to know the answers to those questions Tim asked my sister (a 3rd Grade teacher) said she would be HAPPY to tell you!)

I however will be letting this go and pressing on through my Newbie series so I can get to the upper level stuff where I shall be happily plagued by the rules of Korean grammar!
Cheers all!