There are 21 vowels and 19 consonants in Korean. When it comes to combinations, each syllable starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel. And vowels by themselves can happen too. Each syllable in Korean is pronounced for the same length with equal stress. This is quite different from English. For example, If you’re a typical American English speaker, you’ll say it as “Caa-me-ra.” Most of the stress is on the “Ca” and the least is on the “a.” When it comes to Korean pronunciation, the syllables in camera are pronounced with equal stress for the same length of time. So the way you’d say it would be “Kah-Meh-Rah.”
Compare Korean with Japanese, there are more vowels in Korean. (only 5 in Japanese). For me, the pronounce Japanese is easier than Korean. I don’t if it is because Japanese sounds more similar to Chinese so that they pronounce sometimes the same. However, for Korean, I could barely pronounce the sound eu perfectly as I could in Japanese.
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