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Do you know how to give your email address in Korean?

I'll explain it in just a moment.

Hi, my name is Kaejin

and this is Korean Explained by koreanclass101.com

In this lesson, you will learn key vocabulary,

a short dialogue, and its sentence pattern.

Then, explore example sentences, cultural notes, and a quick review.

Let's start with vocabulary.

Are you ready?

So, when you use the email address,

you use this kind of English alphabet, right?

And it's same in Korea.

Yes, we use that.

However, the pronunciation is a little different.

So, I'm going to introduce those pronunciation.

Please listen carefully and see how we spell it.

So, first, we have A.

In Korean, it's

에이

(ei)

And this is B.

In Korean, it's

비

(bi)

It sounds similar to English, but not exactly the same, right?

Next is C.

In Korean, it's

씨

(ssi)

And next is

(디)

This is how Korean people read this alphabet in Korean.

디

(di)

And how about this?

This is

이

(i)

So, Korean is like syllable-based pronunciation.

So, it's like E, D, A.

Let's look at more words here.

So, next one is I.

In Korean, it's

아이

(ai)

Next is J.

In Korean, it's

제이

(jei)

We don't have J, J, J sound.

So, it becomes 제이 (jei).

And this one is

케이

(kei)

So, it sounds a little similar, right?

It's J-I-K.

It becomes 제이 (jei), 아이 (ai), 케이 (kei).

And this one is L.

It's 엘 (el) in Korean.

엘 (el). It's not L.

It's more like L, L.

Okay.

How about this?

This is

엠

(em)

And in Korean pronunciation, this alphabet is

엔

(en)

It's similar to English, right?

So, hopefully, it's not so difficult for you.

But how about this?

This is not O, O in Korean.

But it's more like

오

(o)

It's not O, it's 오 (o)

One syllable, 오 (o).

And next is P,

피

(pi)

And next is

큐

(kyu)

This is Korean pronunciation.

Next is

티

(ti)

And this is

유

(yu)

And this is

와이

(wai)

it's not Y, but it's 와이 (wai)

Yes.

So, how about this alphabet?

This is a little tricky because we don't have these sounds in Korean.

I mean, most of these, like this.

So, we have our own pronunciation.

This is not F, F, F.

We don't have F sound.

There's no F sound in Korean.

So, you pronounce it as the P sound as in

에프

(epeu)

This is 에프 (epeu)

And how about this?

This is

쥐

(jwi)

지

((jwi))

And this is에이치 (eichi).

It's H, right?

에이치

(eichi)

And this one is not R because we don't have R sound in Korean.

So, it becomes

알

(al)

It sounds very different, right?

Next is S and in Korean is

에스

(eseu)

In Korean, we don't end the word with consonant only, like S, S.

We always need a vowel sound.

So, if some words end with S, S, S, S.

Then we put u sound as in 에스 (eseu)

And this one is

브이

(beui)

And we don't have V sound.

There's no V sound in Korean.

So, you pronounce it as the 브이 (beui) sound.

How about this?

This is

더블유

(deobeulyu)

And this one, X, I think you can guess now.

It's 엑스 (ekseu)

It's not X.

It's 엑스 (ekseu)

And this is

지

(ji)

However, do you remember this alphabet?

This is 쥐 (jwi) or 지, right?

So, these are confusing.

We don't have Z sound.

So, we pronounce it in a very similar way.

So, to avoid the confusion,

sometimes we also read this alphabet as

제트

(jeteu)

Okay.

So, don't worry, it's not so difficult.

But you can memorize this.

It's a little different from English, but pretty similar.

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