quick note
Korean consonants do not stand alone in speech. To hear ㄱ you pair it with a vowel: ㄱ + ㅏ = 가. That is why we learned the vowels first. The consonant is the start of the sound, not the whole sound.
Meet ㄱ. You will hear it as 가.
ㄱ
g/k
sounds like
go (g)
remember it as
“gun”
Looks like the corner of a gun barrel pointing down and to the right.
how to make the sound
Back of the tongue touches the soft palate, then releases. Like the g in go.
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