The reading really helped me to understand the different sounds in different languages and help me to know with part of my mouth I should use to produce the sound. There are 24 letters in the Korean alphabet, 14 consonants, and 10 vowels. When I compare the Korean alphabet to Chinese and English, I see a lot of similarities, but I still have problem with some of the alphabet’s pronunciation because I have never heard people using that phone and does not exist in Chinese or English language. The 10 vowels in the language are very close to Chinese and English, but some of the consonants are very different. In Korean, there are a lot of palatal consonants and dental consonants and alveolar consonants, for example, ㄹ, ㅈ, and ㅊ. ㄹis a palatal consonant, even though Chinese and English have palatal consonant too, there is no phone sounds like this. There are also voiceless phones in Korean, and I am having trouble identifying them. For example 육, 6 in Korean, there is a voiceless k sound at the end, but when I was first learning it, it did not catch it up, even after listening to it for many times, I still have do not hear the difference of with or without the voiceless k sound. This reading is very helpful, before this reading I have never thought about which part of my mouth I am using when I create a specific sound, but now when I have trouble for a specific phone I will find out which part of the mouth is creating the sound first then practice that phone.
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