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Common Pronunciation Errors Made by Koreans
This document summarizes common English pronunciation errors made by Korean students. It outlines that Korean has a different phonetic spectrum than English, with some missing consonant and vowel sounds. Korean also has weak variation in prosody, sounding very flat and lacking stress or rhythm. Additionally, Korean has a segmental sound system where each character represents one syllable. The document provides examples of pronunciation errors and exercises to illustrate these differences between the Korean and English sound systems.
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Common Pronunciation Errors Made by Koreans
- 1. Common Pronunciation Errors Made by Koreans May 29, 2012 Sangjin Han
- 2. This Talk isAbout • Common English pronunciation errors made by Korean students – What – Why • For effective communication with Koreans – They are everywhere! – Some errors seem to apply to Japanese, too.
- 3. Outline: Korean Has… 1.Different phonetic spectrum – Some missing sounds in Korean 2. Weak variation in prosody – Very flat 3. Segmental sound – One Korean character = one syllable
- 4. 1. Different PhoneticSpectrum
- 5. • Consonants Missing1) R F V TH Z SH Alternative L P, Wh B S, D, T J, G S – Result: somewhere between two for both • Vowels – Kind of OK – Subtle difference between e and ae • Men vs Man 1) At the same time, Korean has many sounds that do not exist in English
- 6. Exercise • I rubyou • Brown lice, please • This stew is sick • He is a bed boy
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- 8. Korean Sounds VeryFlat • Unlike many other East Asian languages… – Little intonation – Little rhythm – Little stress • Why so monotonous?
- 10. More Examples • Ap*ss of paper – I mean, one sh*t of paper • Excuse me vs. Excuse me • eCOnomy and EcoNOmics
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- 12. Korean Alphabet 101 • One Korean character – One consonant – One vowel – (optional) “the final” • The Korean mental model – One character = one syllable • Each character sounds independently – Same sound same spelling – Same spelling same sound – Consonants cannot exist without a vowel
- 13. No one-to-one mappingin English • Desert and dessert • I READ a book yesterday • I will READ a book tomorrow • Would you..? Could you..? • What is it?
- 14. Consonant w/o Vowel? •Skip it – Wo-r-k like walk – Car Kah – Holy crab! • Introduce a vowel – Change Chae-in-gee – Distinct Dis-ting-tueh
- 15. Conclusion • When youtrouble communicating with Korean people, – Use the context for confusing sounds • “Have a seat” when I say “Have a shit” – Focus on spelling rather than stress • Flat sound does not mean they are bored – Try to slow down and be segmental
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- 17. This Talk isNOT about • In-depth linguistic analysis • Grammatical errors • Korean-ized English • Making fun of Koreans
- 18. “Skate to wherethe puck is going on, not where it has F*** been.”
Editor's Notes
- #3 English speakers as a secondary language make lots of…
- #4 In this talk, we will take a look at three points
- #6 In Korean, there are some missing sounds that are frequently …
- #7 OK. We have four phrases here.What are those originally intended?
- #9 Korean sounds very flat.In East Asia, almost all languages
- #10 Summer – festival.Sounds very nasty.What should it be instead of bitch?
- #11 We have three examples here.-And excuse me. Many Korean people will pronounce it very flat.But you know, it should have proper intonation, depending on -Not good at stress.Ikoand Eco
- #13 You need to understand what Korean alphabets look like andHow they affect the mental model of Koreans.
- #14 But in English, there is no such a one-to-one relationship.It is pretty much confusing to Koreans,
- #15 What happens if a consonant does not have a corresponding vowel?I mentioned earlier that it does not exist in Korean.