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[Blog Update] 7.7.19

Hello Everyone!  Thank you so much for being patient with me on my very unexpected and long hiatus.

I am glad to announce that I am returning to this blog!  Life happened and I was very busy this year trying to take care of myself and my studies as I have just wrapped up 50% of my undergraduate career so I hope you guys & gals understand.

[Some Updates on Myself & My Blog]

Let’s Learn Hangeul launched about 3 years ago as a small passion project of mine to help myself learn more Korean and share the knowledge/journey with the community on Tumblr.  I love learning languages.  It’s been so much fun getting to share my journey with you guys and watch my blog grow, and so inspiring to receive overwhelming support from a wonderful community who supports my interest in studying foreign language.  In terms of my blog, here are few small changes to look out for:

·        name/url spelling correction from “hangul” to “hangeul

·        new banner inspired from the old one

·        new avatar/icon designed by my self! (I’m lowkey proud it almost looks like my own airlines or something haha)

Which segues into the next section ->

[New Business & What to Expect]

The revamped look is only the beginning.  After doing some clean up and reflection, I realized that one of the biggest challenges in producing my own content was finding infographics/designs for the content I wanted to put out.  But, I realized that as a result of working in some pre-professional student orgs, I developed a skill set to start developing my own content and make is as original as I want it to be.  This means that moving forward, I hope to produce:

·        content centered around monthly/weekly themes

·        vocabulary lists/grammar & sentence structure lessons

·        history/entertainment/holiday bits

I am still getting used to the new program and self-design, and each of my posts will now contain a LLH (Let’sLearnHangeul) mark as well.  I am in the process of making more content so please be patient!

Eyyyy I know I’m really late on both but Tumblr turned 10 and we reached 10k followers!!!

Today is a very special day for me, because it marks the day that my blog has gained 1,000 followers!  Just two months ago, I began this blog because I wanted to increase my fluency in Korean and wanted a space where I could be creative and keep all of my learning materials in one place.  I never really expected to even reach more than 20 followers, so I am very pleasantly surprised and also motivated by each and every one of you who follow my blog!  Getting questions in my inbox and messages gives me a sense of accomplishment and I really feel that I am getting something out of learning not just on my own and by my own self, but also through anyone who supports this blog and gives me tips and insights as well.  If my blog is able to help not only myself but you guys, that makes me really happy and I hope that I can continue to put out content that everyone who has interest in learning Korean can benefit from and use!  Thank you so much for all of your support, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for our journeys in learning more Korean!  Thank you everyone!!!~

[Letter]  [Symbol]    [Explanation]

ㅂ              [b]        p as in park at the beginning or end of a word                               b as in big elsewhere ㅃ              [pp]      tensed* p as in spa (to make it easier, it's the pp in oppa) ㅈ              [j]        ch as in charm at the beginning of the word                               t as in the bat at the end of the word                               if followed by a vowel, j as in jazz ㅉ             [jj]        tensed* ch as in jazz (jjang) ㄷ              [d]       t as in tin at the beginning or end of a word                              d as in dog elsewhere ㄸ             [tt]       tensed* t as in star ㄱ              [g]       k as in key at the beginning or end of a word, or before                              ㅂ [b], ㄷ [d], ㄱ [g], ㅋ [k], ㅌ [t], ㅊ [ch], ㅍ [p]                              ng as in sing before ㅁ [m], ㄴ [n], ㅇ [not pronounced], ㄹ [r]                              g as in girl before a vowel and elsewhere ㄲ             [kk]      tensed* k as in sky ㅅ            [s/ sh]   s as in sun                               sh before an "i" or "ee" sound like sh in ship or sheep ㅆ             [ss]      tensed* s as in sip ㅁ              [m]      m as in moon ㄴ              [n]       n as in no                              if followed by a ㄹ [r/l], pronounce as l ㅇ                          zero or null consonant at the beginning of a syllable - not                              pronounced                 [ng]      ng as in sing at the end of a syllable ㄹ             [r/l]      between English r & l                               before a vowel, rolled like a r in murder                              when preceded or followed by another ㄹ [r/l], pronounce as l                              as in yellow ㅎ              [h]       h as in hello                              when followed by ㅁ [m], ㄴ [n], then it's silent ㅋ              [k]       aspirated** k as in kick ㅌ              [t]       aspirated** t as the t in rent ㅊ             [ch]      aspirated** ch as in ketchup ㅍ              [p]       aspirated** p as in mop

*tensed sounds are produced by holding the breath while making the sound **aspirated sounds are produced by producing a puff of air while making the sound