How <strike>can</strike> should I <strike>start it</strike> begin?

I'm new here! I heard about italki.com <strike>which is</strike> and I think it's great.
If I <strike>leave</strike> write <strike>my</strike> messages, will someone <strike>makes</strike> correct my grammar? <strike>correctly?</strike>

Red                  = Capitalization

Blue                 =  Correction and Spelling

Green               =  A more natural way to say / more common

Purple               =  My comment or suggestion

Underline          =  Punctuation  and/ or  spacing


Hi 대인/태인! 안녕~ Welcome to italki! To answer your question, yes. Usually, if you make a post, a native speaker will correct it for you using color/colour coding and special marks to let you know what was incorrect in your message. If you could do the same for non-native speakers of Korean, that would be great! :D I hope you enjoy italki and find lots of friends with whom to practice English/Korean.

Ugh. My post messed up. I'm sorry, but I'm guessing Pipe is a native speaker. Thai doesn't have 44 consonants. He's thinking about the writing system. Writing systems are *not* language. They are inaccurate written representations of language. Thai supposedly only has 21 consonants at beginnings of syllables and 8 possible consonants syllable finally. There are 9 short vowels, 9 long vowels, 8 short diphthongs, 11 long diphthongs, and 3 triphthongs. As for what <เ> is, it can be different vowels depending on the surrounding characters. In <เ–ะ> it is a short [e] like the first half of the "ei" sound in the English word <mate>. In <เ–> it's a long [e:] sound. In <เ–อะ> it's a short [ɤ] sound, which doesn't have an English equivalent. Take the short (non-diphthongal) Spanish <o> and unround your lips. It'll be close enough. In <เ–อ> it's a long [ɤ:] sound. In <เ–าะ> it's a short [ɔ], like how Jersey people say <coffee>. I'm not going to go into pronunciation for the diphthongs. It's also used in two of the three triphthongs. Also, just for the sake of not letting lies spread about language, "a e i o u" are not English's vowels. They're our written vowels, which do no justice to the large number of vowels in English. General American English has, usually, 9 contrastive vowels. My dialect only has 8, because I'm a member of the Caught - Cot merger. Additionally, there are usually 5 contrastive diphthongs, as shown in "bait, bite, boy, boat, bout".

I'm sorry, but I'm guessing Pipe is a native speaker. Thai doesn't have 44 consonants. He's thinking about the writing system. Writing systems are *not* language. They are inaccurate written representations of language. Thai supposedly only has 21 consonants at beginnings of syllables and 8 possible consonants syllable finally. There are 9 short vowels, 9 long vowels, 8 short diphthongs, 11 long diphthongs, and 3 triphthongs. As for what <เ> is, it can be different vowels depending on the surrounding characters. In <เ–ะ> it is a short [e] like the first half of the "ei" sound in the English word <mate>. In <เ–> it's a long [e:] sound. In <เ–อะ> it's a short [ɤ] sound, which doesn't have an English equivalent. Take the short (non-diphthongal) Spanish <o> and unround your lips. It'll be close enough. In <เ–อ> it's a long [ɤ:] sound. In <เ–าะ> it's a short [ɔ], like how Jersey people say <coffee>. I'm not going to go into pronunciation for the diphthongs. It's also used in two of the three triphthongs. Also, just for the sake of not letting lies spread about language, <a e i o u> are not English's vowels. They're our written vowels, which do no justice to the large number of vowels in English. General American English has, usually, 9 contrastive vowels. My dialect only has 8, because I'm a member of the Caught - Cot merger. Additionally, there are usually 5 contrastive diphthongs, as shown in <bait>, <bite>, <boy>, <boat>, and <bout>.

I'll tell you the same thing that I tell everyone else~ Try to avoid using the word "foreigner" in English. It's often used in a derogatory manner, and many people have begun using more politically correct terms like "non-native speaker" or "internationals." Of course, if they have Korean passports but don't speak Korean, you can't really call them "internationals" anymore, but you get the idea.

And here's the pronunciation of your sentence in IPA, since Korean romanization is pretty terrible, haha.

italki [ɾɯl tʰoŋhɛsʌ manɯn ʨʰiŋgu ɾɯl sagyiʌt̚ɯmjʌn ʨoket̚ta]

No one can teach you hangeul. You just memorize it, like you do any writing system. mstania has already done a great job of typing out hangeul for you. Just look at them, check out a book from your local library to learn the sounds (or look at the Korean phonology page on Wikipedia if you understand the International Phonetic Alphabet, which you *should* if you learn foreign languages), and learn the phonological rules like ㅂ[p] followed by ㄴ[n] is actually pronounced like ㅁ[m]. If you don't actually want to be able to read hangeul out loud, then you don't even have to do the second two. Just memorize the romanization. /shrug