Week 3 Notes , to be written in exercise book

Week 3

1.     Korean words and sentences follow a CVCVCV…pattern.

     English however allows consonant clusters to exist like CCCVCV and many variations thereof.

2. English can use one letter to make a word eg. 'a' but this can never happen in Korean. In Korean one letter does not a sound/word or syllable make. one needs 2 letters minimum to make a sound.

3.     The word ‘strike’ is 1 syllable in English but 5 syllables in Korean, si-ti-ra-i-ki

4.    Korean words are made up of syllable blocks. Each block must start with a consonant and       each  block can have one and only one vowel in it. 

5.     In Korean there are 3 families of vowels. The tall-ies, the flat-ies, and the angle-ies.

6.     The angle vowels are created by combining a specific single flat vowel with a specific tall vowel.  Done in accordance with the Vowel Harmony Principle (bright vowels go with bright vowels and dark goes with dark).