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Big Brother's (un-O'rwellian) Super Quick Korean Course (For Michelle)

Written Korean

Down below are all the Korean characters and how to write them. I did my best with Photoshop but it didn't turn out very clearly. The last number in the series represents the whole character and each number represents an entire stroke (as in you don't lift your pen). If you have some time, you might try and find an elementary book on speaking Korean. They usually have all the characters and how to write them.

Consonants

G/K	N	T/D	L/R	M
B	S	ING/place holder	J	CH
K	T	P	H	Double consonants same sounds but said with more air (aspirated)

Vowels

A	O`as in b"o"g	O	U	U` (we don't have this sound)
I	A E	E	Wi woi	UI
YA	YO	YOH	YOU	Wa Way
WO "wonder"	YE	Michelle	Kathi

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Spoken Korean

If you click on the button, a windows media player should pop up and you should hear Suk Ja and I. It is formatted for the newest windows media player so you might get an error message on an older player but it should still work. If it doesn't you'll have to download the player from Microsoft. You can find it by going to www.microsoft.com and then just doing a search for "windows media player" in the downloads section. If that still doesn't work you can give the real player stuff a shot again. Just click on the link below the player button and then hit the play button.