Reading and writing practice

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Now that you have already learned all Korean letters and the concept of syllable blocks, you should be able to read and write any Korean word. However, before we proceed, let's do some short reading and writing exercise.

You will find some Korean words below. Try to read aloud and write these words by yourself.

If you want to know whether you read the word correctly, click on it and listen to how it's pronounced. If you want to make sure that your stroke as well as letters order is correct, move your mouse over the word.

Before starting this exercise, make sure you have learned all the basic reading rules from this lesson.

저는

친구

한국어

오늘

먹어요

가요

알아요

몰라요

아니요

있어요

없어요

내일

어제

보다

듣다

하나

일곱

지금

시간

Quick reference (click to open)

Vowels: a, e, i, o, u

Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j

Syllable: Bra-zil (2 syllables), Ar-gen-ti-na (4), In-di-a (3), Viet-nam (2), thin-king (2), beau-ti-ful (3), good (1)

Batchim: is a final consonant in a syllable. → Bra-zil (batchim: 'l'), Ar-gen-ti-na (batchims: 'r' and 'n'), In-di-a ('n'), Viet-nam ('t', 'm')

Romanization: is a conversion of text (not pronunciation ! ) from different writing system (Korean, Arabic, Russian, etc.) to the Roman (Latin) alphabet.

IPA: is an alphabetic system of phonetic (pronunciation) notation.

Noun: road, user, sister, table, sky

Pronoun: I, my, we, you, they, her

Verb: to go, to study, to think, to feel

Adjective: cold, kind, hungry, curious, expensive

Adverb: quickly, nicely, never, exactly, urgently

Preposition: from, to, on, in, with, till

Conjuction: and, because, if, but, while

Declarative sentence: I learn Korean.

Interrogative sentence: Do you learn Korean?

Imperative sentence: You must learn Korean!

Exclamative sentence: Wow, you learn Korean!

Verb / Adj. stem in Korean: part of a verb or adj. which is left after removing the last syllable -다 ( e.g. 가다 → 가, 예쁘다 → 예쁘, 듣다 → 듣 ).