Day 1. Consonants of Korean Alphabet -1 The one of my dreams is to help people learn Korean, especially a marriage immigrant and a foreign worker from Central Asia countries. Even though I can't speak Russian now, it still remains for me as a hope. Due to that reason, I have decided to give offline lessons of Korean language to the very beginner for free. I'm gonna write down the script to prepare the lessons, as well. I'm really glad for you all to give feedback about my script. Today we gonna talk about what's the consonants of Korean and how to pronounce them correctly. The very first consonant we are gonna learn is ㄱ, 기역. You can just write down a line horizontally straight and then vertically. ㄱ sounds like /g/ or /k/ in English. but today, you don't need to care it and just remember ㄱ sounds /g/ as in "great". Why don't you pronounce it? Next one is ㄴ, 니은. You can write down a line vertically first, and next horizontally. ㄴ sounds like /n/ as in "night". Next one is ㄷ, 디귿. You can write down a line from right to left and down and left to right in the end. ㄷ sounds like /d/ as in "dog" ㄹ, 리을 sounds like /r/ or /l/ depending on where the consonant is located. For your information, you can speak ㄹ as a /r/ sound unless it's ending consonant. But, I bet you don't know what the ending consonant is if you are the very beginner. Therefore, you don't need to understand it right now and it's okay that you know ㄹ sounds /r/ as in "red", at least. ㅁ, 미음 sounds like /m/ as in "magic". it must be easy word for you to pronounce, I bet. ㅂ, 비읍 sounds like /b/ or /p/ in English. Like ㄱ or ㄹ, its sound also can be changed by where it is, so, now you just memorize it sounds /b/ as in "boy". By the way, does it seem like a ladder? So, I believe you can memorize it by matching to a ladder. ㅅ, 시옷 sounds like /s/ as in "sure". ㅇ, 이응 sounds like zero or /ng/. Now that we consider ㅇ zero consonant, it doesn't have any sound when it is used as an initial sound. On the other hand, it sounds /ng/ as in "song" when it's used as an ending consonant. ㅈ, 지읒 sounds like /ts/~/dz/, not /j/. I found out that lots of foreigner tend to pronounce ㅈ as /j/, but we pronounce ㅈ by moving one's tongue onto the behind of upper front teeth and aspirating. Due to the limitation of notebook length, I'm gonna talk about the other consonants, such as, aspirated one and tensed one in next notebook.