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Hi everyone, im learing korean and how do you know when ㄹ is translated as a L or R?

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if i did that then this is what i would have to do....
1. make an account
2. find out how to post a thread
3. wait for a reply.

and since i already have a account on here and posted a thread about it then that would knock out the first two steps, and im pretty sure they are koreans on here.

OR you could just ask me nicely ;)

I believe that could be taken as done when the first post in this thread went up. You did respond and...

*looks up*

...weren't helpful. So how about reversing that, hm?

FINE

ㄹ - Here's a source of much trepidation. At the beginning of a word, this is r. When surrounded by vowels on both sides, it's also r. When there's a consonant directly after it, it's r again. It can also be L, but only at the end of a word or when followed by another ㄹ and its respective vowel. This is why you'll see lalala written in hangeul as 랄랄라, because 라라라 would be rarara. Unlike Japanese, there is an L sound in Korean!! When next to ㄴ (either before or after), it makes the ll sound.

Thought you were on my side, Koir?

oh okay thank you. i started learning korean yesterday.

Okay another question...how do i know when ㄱ is a G or K?
and how do i know when ㄷ is a T or D? Please?

Hey, I'm just trying to be helpful and bring out your potential? :)

You decided you'd start learning or you actively started learning? Best thing i can say is to buy a book, seriously. Learn as much of that as you can, then ask for help if you need it.

Why Korean instead of Japanese?

erm.. Thanks.. I think.

i actively started learning, and bc i listen to korean music also and i think its also an interesting language...is it a bad thing that im learning korean instead of japanese?

No, not at all. Just thought that since you were on JAPANforum, you might be studying that instead..

Logic, my friend.

yea i know...but japanese would take alot longer since it has hiragana, katakana, and kanji. But i do study japanese sometimes, i have hiragana and katakana charts on my phone and i look at them trying to learn them.

Ahh so Korean is just the easy way out of a second language?

Wrong.

Any language takes a long time to learn and by doing it "sometimes" only prolongs the process.

You will never learn something by just looking at it.

i never said anything about an "easy way out" i want to learn korean and i know that languages take a long time.

i didnt think we was fighting?