Hangul foundations · Lesson 1

Read your first syllables: ㄱ · ㄴ · ㄷ · ㄹ

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Planning guide: about 20 min · Progress by understanding and practice, not by the clock.

Completion records the activities you finished. It is not a pronunciation score or a Korean proficiency certificate.

Unit contents

Consonants and your first syllables

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Learn the key points

Consonant	Vowel	Syllable	What to notice
ㄱ	ㅏ	가	Find the corner that turns down on the right.
ㄴ	ㅏ	나	Find the corner that turns right at the bottom.
ㄷ	ㅏ	다	Compare it with ㄴ and notice the upper line.
ㄹ	ㅏ	라	Follow the changes in direction.

Change the consonant on the left and the syllable changes. Keep the same vowel, ㅏ, on the right.

Try each sound briefly. These are starting cues, not an automatic pronunciation judgement.

Lower your jaw comfortably. Open your mouth without rounding your lips; say 아 once.

For 나, touch the ridge behind your upper teeth and let sound pass through the nose. For 다, close then release there. For 라, tap the ridge briefly.

Briefly close the airflow with the back of your tongue, then release into ㅏ. Do not say an English letter name.