There are 24 letters in the modern Korean alphabet and it consists of 19 consonants and 21 vowels. The letters are also grouped into syllabic blocks, vertically and horizontally. The Korean alphabet is very straight forward and there are usually little to no irregularities in the language. For grammar, there is a subject-verb inversion present. A lot of the sounds in Korean are available in English as well. English speakers, however, may have trouble saying certain combination of alphabets. One that comes into mind is the 의 (ɰi). Many English speakers have trouble saying this combination because it is not normally used in their language. In Korean, many native speakers have trouble saying English words that contain the letter R. This is also because there is no R equivalent letter in Korean. Therefore, many times Koreans will pronounce the R sound with an L sound.
We are currently still ordering books so we have not worked on the Korean alphabet that much yet. Although we have gone through some diction and spelling mistakes that even native Korean make.
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