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xhyunax
How to pronounce this?
I need help on pronunciation of 라 랴 러 려 로 료 루 류 르 리 and 말을 .
These keep me the most trouble pronouncing and I cannot find a pronunciation guide for it.
Could someone please record and audio file of themselves saying these please.
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Mar 22, 2013 9:49 PM
Answers · 3
라 [ra] or [la], you know the musical scale, la
랴 [rya] or [lya]
러 [ro] or [lo] / [rʌ] o [lʌ] but, I recommend you pronounce like [lo-] in 'love'
려 [reo], [leo] [rio] [lio] its sound is quite hard to explain but think about 'Korea', and the word "Korean" is originally came from "고려" and you can make this sound to say [lio] quickly
로 [ro] or [lo], it looks confusing with 러 but it is more like [ro] in rod or [lo] in lord
료 [ryo] or [lyo] - You just make sound r or l +'yo' quite quickly and you can make the sound of 료. Yo girl, you can do this!
루 [ru] or [lu] but its sound is actually the same as "loo' as toilet in British English.
I go to the loo to pee
류 [ryu] or [lyu], I think I will be easy. Do you know the famous actress, Lucy Liu? Its sound is more like Liu in her name.
르 This is the most difficult part because you didn't use vowel 'ㅡ' Think about 'pro-' in professor.
How can you make the sound pr ? There, you just pronounce p without any vowel, right? The sound of ㄹis made that way. We must use the combination of consonant and vowel, so we put the vowel 'ㅡ' under the any consonant, 그/느/드/르/므/브/스/으/즈/츠/크/트/프/흐 etc.
So, I might say, you can make sound 'lm' for 름 and 르 sound can be R in 'Rwanda"
리 You know this sound, lee, the famous jean make.
말을 I will write down the way I hear its sound
[ma-rul]
You shouldn't say 말 and 을 separately
How can you say 'want to' ?
Like the same way, you can make the sound as 마+를.
March 23, 2013
I'm not going to throw in my pronunciations because I'm not a native speaker, haha. However, since all the pronunciations you asked for included the consonant ㄹ, I'll link you to a few wiki pages that I found immensely useful when learning this consonant!
March 22, 2013
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