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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   2442 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 16, 2026

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Never had this issue but I might not be understanding what you mean. Do you have example sentences where this happens?

"뭐하고 있어요?" was the correct answer, and What I heard was "어호이새여"

"지금 좀 바빠요" was the correct answer, and what I heard was "치감전파패요"

This was purely a sounds to writing test, and I don't know enough words in Korean to know what the characters meant, meaning I didn't have the context of whether the characters made sense together or not. I literally questioned my sanity after seeing the correct answers. Apparently in the first example, I missed an entire character being pronounced.

Some of those are because of the more advanced rules/exceptions that I mentioned, and @bonsaii listed some above:

  • The ㅆ from 있 slides onto the start of the next syllable
  • 요 at the end of a sentence usually sounds more like 여
  • the ㅁ from 좀 combines with the ㅂ from 바 to be... sort halfway in between ㅂ andㅍ
  • the ㅃ from 빠 slides back onto the end of 바 tomake it more of a ㅍ sound

The others... I don't know, there might be rules I don't know, but I think you just need more listening practice. It's hard. But you're not going insane, they just don't follow the simple pronounciation guides in the intro hangul guides quite as neatly as they make it seem.

this is a good list of rules. But you certainly don't need to know all of these when you're a beginner, or even any of them at all. Just.... be aware that they exist.

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