SDLC 105: Discussion Post #4

[Justina Morris]

The difference between sound and spelling is that sound is auditory while spelling is more visual and can be used to assist in figuring out the phones of a word for speech and pronunciation. Spelling is a visual representation of translating sound in which it can then be replicated. This concept is significant to my language learning efforts because it will allow me to better understand how Korean sounds and be able to connect the spoken language being written. The Phonetic inventory of Korean includes consonants and vowels, and like American English, it also has diphthongs. Some sounds that exist in Korean but not in American English include an l/r sounding consonant that has a specific sound like the requires a slight rolling of the tongue, which is called a trill. And other sound in the Korean language that's not really prevalent in American English is ue (oo-ee). There are diphthongs in Korean language too, so it is important that I am able to identify them and be able to spell them as well, when writing. I will be able to acquire the ability to discriminate segments in listening by relating how the word looks when written and relating that segment to the specific in memory.