Difference Between ㅐ and ㅔ | Korean Pronunciation
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I thought I was crazy when learning the sounds because I could and can still actually hear the slight difference but everyone was saying it’s the same and that there was no difference so I was very conflicted.
It became more prominent when I started stanning NCT and I would hear Jaemin/재민 and Jeno/제노 and I could hear the distinct difference between the two sounds ㅐ and ㅔ.
Me too
oo what's your favourite song from each sub unit?
I must say, your way of explaining is extremely good. You're able to explain things on a deep and technical level, but at the same time, it's easy to understand. That's why I'm so glad I found your channel.
I think for German Korean learners (and maybe other Europeans too?) the sounds are very easy to distinguish because we have the exact same letters in our language. 에 = E and 애 = Ä I think it's a bit sad that even Koreans are starting to neglect the difference because they can't see it... ^^'
Arne Weber interesting... I feel like Koreans will actually have a hard time getting e and ä when learning German 😅
@@YourKoreanSaem In my experience they're doing just fine! They're having more problems with F and especially Pf sounds. I can imagine their mind being blown when they see something like Pfeife and Pfeffer :'D
I'm a German as well and I can't hear any difference at all between a-i and o-i. They sound exactly the same to me and I'm comparing samples of their pronounciation for almost an hour now. :(
Yes easy
I've read somewhere that the difference between both sounds is still extremely alive in North Korea
I'm just starting to learn Korean (still at the "trying to puzzle out 한글" stage, sigh) and this was helpful. As someone whose first language is English, I've been reminding myself that I have zero right to get cranky about "why is *this* spelled *that way*?" 😂
I totally agree. I keep thinking this is hard until I remember how hard english probably is if you don't already know it
AGREED English is so confusing i feel bad for everyone who doesnt have english as their 1st language and have to learn it- like reading articles and having to learn 'There, their and they're" and having yo remember that theyre all pronounced the same would make me so confused
I've just finished quizzing myself on the entire hangul alphabet so now I know it completely 😁 now to begin the hard stuff...
Lol yes! And these two letters can be difficult to even visually distinguish in a word. Maybe I’m just old? 🤣
I had tried to learn Japanese but had given up because learning the writing systems was too difficult for me. I started to learn Korean instead because I figured Hangeul was easy to learn. And it was. But boy, no one told me that learning Korean grammar and vocabulary would be so difficult. But more than a year and a half of learning the language, I’m still (high) beginner level.
The best word that I've found recently to distinguish the difference between 'ㅐ' and 'ㅔ' is '팬데믹' since the syllables are right next to each other. Now, the difference in sound is subtle and you could argue that some people in Korea would pronounce it as /pen-de-mik/, while others would make a clear distinction pronouncing it as /pæn-de-mik/. Excuse me if my IPA symbols are off. It's been awhile since linguistics class. The same phenomenon happens in English. In certain regions, vowels are pronounced the same and in the other regions there is a clear distinction. Just my two cents. Anyways, I just found your channel from Go Billy's channel. Thank you for sharing your lessons. I'm learning a lot.
I'm glad I kinda figured it out on the way.
For once the romanisation was helpful 'cause it gave a clue with 'ae' for 'ㅐ' and 'e' for 'ㅔ'. If you pick a word out, you *can* make out the difference - 테니스 is not the same as 태니스 when you try saying it with the pronunciation differences. But in quick flow of words it's difficult to understand which is which.
i thought of it like 태 형 and 테 형 there is a difference in how the tongue is placed
Reason why pronunciation is really important when learning Hangeul
@@enigma6084 wow you're right I place my tongue differently while reading these but I don't think I'd understand which is which if I hear them, especially if the speaker's speaking fast
@Nitya Annah
Look how did you write "e" sound in korean keyboard?
@@yoongimarryme1342 I didn't quite get what you meant
„You can pronounce them the same“
Yeah no my Duolingo says something else
Same lol 😂🤣
Yeah memrise is sooo much better
I, too, am being terrorized by Duolingo.
에 ,the e in pen
애, the a in pan
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wow thanks
Are you American because the vowel in pan just sounds like 아.
@@ayooobro Yeah probably. I'm also from America. If you are British or Europeian (since accents vary and we pronounce words differently), a substitute could be:
the e in pen and the first part of "a" sound in face
or you could blend the sounds:
ae is generally a sound between "a" (basically korean 아, or the "a" in "father"). and e (basically korean 에, or the "e" in "yes"). If you say it fast, it should work
or you could just say the two "e" and "ae" the same since most koreans don't care anymore^^
Love your explainations.
So well made.
Good video as always!! Love your videos so much!!💜💜💜
Whaaa.. what a relief! I was stressing about this for the last couple of days
Thanks 👍🏻
This was super helpful!! Thank you!
thank you so much for this video!! it honestly helped me so much ^^
Thank you so much, at 0:25 the transition sliding scale middle part was so helpful!
Thanks! This was really helpful and insightful!
aaaaa i’m on day 2 of learning korean and your videos are super helpful! they’re really clear and well explained with examples, thank you!! 🤧
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이 비디오는 유익합니다.
좋은 비디오 감사합니다!
애, the a in pan, the a in ass, the a in am
에, the e in pen, the a in as, the e in m, the e in s
in my understanding, ass and as have the same vowel (american pronunciation), and their complement would be the alphabet s
I don't see how that could be correct because it's very easy for me to distinguish the vowel sounds in pan and pen but I can't hear the difference between 애 and 에. They both sound like the vowel in pen.
@@wioetuw912 because his example was shit. 애 is e as in men, ten, and zen. 에 is almost similar to a as in fate, late, and mate. The difference is that in English, most vowels are diphthongs, like the latter example.
Thank you soooo much!!! this video helped a lot
Another interesting video. Thank you.
I love you, thank you!!! It's just learning spelling right!!! That's less stressful!!! Thanks!
Thank you for this. Helps a lot!
This will definitely help with spelling! I always forget which vowel to use so now I have a way to remember. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing!
Very helpful. Gracias
Thank you very much. It's really helpful.
As a Canadian learning Korean I can tell the distinction because of the “eh” when expressing apathy is like “eh whatever” that’s the ㅔ sound and the “eh” in “what about it eh?” sounds like the ㅐ sound. Thank you.
감사합니다 선생님! 이 비디오는 좋아요!
Starting to learn Hangul, I thought I couldn’t hear the difference perhaps because of my accent. But I see it’s perhaps like the two different “th” sounds in English getting more and more similar every generation, or the “a” and “à” in French which lost its difference in pronunciation a long time ago.
Thank you teacher it was helpful
thank you so much this really helped
Thank you so much for this. I can't hear the difference but the explanation is really helpful!
Thanks, this is what i've been looking for after learning to read hangeul
excellent video!
Thank you so much!!
Thank you as always for the video! Your voice is soothing, and your explainations are so well-paced and clear:)
Even though you said it wasn’t necessary to know, I was curious (😅) : would they sound like the french é (ㅔ) and ê (ㅐ)? (Like in the words “armée” or “beauté” and “rêve” or “vêtement”)
Also congratulations on 1k!!!!!!!
Hehe thanks ❤️
I'm really new to learning Korean, and this was driving me crazy! But thanks for the clarification because I was worried I was unable to detect the subtleties in some of the examples I've been learning. I am doing my best to learn the spelling though haha!
Thanks for your explain I ' ll be so confused when that too be like the same sounds 😍😍
Always find your vids so helpful! Could you maybe do a video teaching the basic sentence structure for a beginner! It’s really confusing to know what and where certain words have to go. I’d say this is the main thing keeping me back from having and understanding casual conversations.
Thanks. Are there any particular sentence types you would like to learn?
All Things Korean Honestly, I don’t know. But whichever types that would be the most useful to use in everyday life is what I would like to learn
Inclusion of words in English as an example is helpful, to understand the pronouncing. Thx.
Omg! Thank you so much! Makes so much sense now! Is it the same for ㅖ and ㅒ?
thank you!!
Oh wow. Nice! I spent hours once trying to find a video or information that could actually explain this and ended up having to read scientific articles once :(
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THANK YOU SO KUCH AS A KOREAN LEARNER THESE ARE VERY HARD FOR MEEEE 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Hi unnie!! Thank you for this. If you have time, could you also explain how 오 & 우 in the difference on how it sounds. Thank you unnie.
오 : o sound
우: oo sound
for me as a german speaker its pretty easy to tell them apart. one is Ä, the other one E
Thankyou
you're a great teacher! clear and concise.i would just like to ask, are there specific rules to follow in using ㅐor ㅔin spelling different words?
Well, they're now nearly irregular like English spelling. But there're some tips though: when it is a verb ending like -네, -게, then as you see, they always use ㅔ. When a word is a western loanword, then most times /e/ sound is written with ㅔ.
It's better to see what words are written with ㅐ.
I hear a very big difference but I’m not able to get my mouth to make the sound right. You explaining the mouth position really helps!
a good example to compare spelling to in english is dead vs bed. real words, sound the same vowel wise, but spelled differently just because. english is the king of things being spelled that way just because.
When I was learning Korean, I learned it as ㅐ being a longer vowel (think "a" in "bad") whereas ㅔ was short (think "e" in "bed"). Having said that, I have not met a single Korean person who can corroberate what I had learned.
I think instead of it being like a in bad it's more like the a in bake
@@ramsha8540 Bake would be 베이크 (3 syllables in Korean), though, rather than 배크 (2 syllables in Korean).
@@joshuaychung fair enough, but I still think it's less distinct than the a in bad
영어 발음이 너무 좋아요.
한국인인데 구별 못해서 배우려고 유튜브 영상 찾아봤어요. 설명 감사합니다. 🤣
For Germans this might help. ㅐ is like short ä or short e [which are the same sound] (as in 'hält' or 'Held') and ㅔ is like long ä (as in 'Bär').
I'm using a writing app where I have to write syllable blocks based on audio, and the speaker pronounces ㅔand ㅐthe same way, which is frustrating because I can't distinguish what I'm supposed to write.
감사미다
Korean is undergoing a sound shift. There are differences in how elders speak and how the new generations pronounce words. Of course, I’m referring to the South Korean dialects here. Take these for example:
a) ㅐ and ㅔ merge into one [e̞] sound. There used to be a difference, with ㅐ being [ɛ] and ㅔ being [e̞].
b) Long vowels are lost. Older generations distinguish some words by vowel length, such as 붇다 [puːt̚t͈á̠] (to swell up) and 불리다 [puʎʎída̠] (to soak).
c) The diphtongs ㅚ and ㅟ used to be [ø] and [y] (like German ö and ü or the French eu and u), but nowadays they are pronounced by most Koreans as [we̞] and [ɥi].
d) Initial voiceless unaspirated consonants ㅂ ㄷ ㄱ ㅈ tend to become aspirated just like ㅍ ㅌ ㅋ ㅊ, the only distinction being that they still carry a low tone. E.g.: 밤의 (= of the night) can be pronounced as both [pɐ̀mé̞] or [pʰɐ̀mé̞], but never [pʰɐ́mé̞] or [pɐ́mé̞].
These changes make Korean sound so confusing right now, but it will eventually restabilize after some more generations.
I'm still trying to understand (or let's say perceive) the difference between 어 and 오. There's a looooong way to go before I realise that there's a difference between 에 and 애 🤦♀️
어 is like when you say "awww!" and 오 is just a regular o vowel, like in the word "oh!"
@@vincentmasih that's the best way of describing it!
@@kitkats8437 thank you 😊
@@vincentmasih thank you so much !!
Could you please explain about 그리고, 하고 and 고 with sufficient examples.
I walked my crab today and then went for some dog at the restaurant
lol
Could you make a vid explaining the difference between eopseo and eobseo
Pls ❤
I needed this, in French there's this too, and it's very subtle but here is finally explained!!
*For 🇧🇷 BRAZILLIANS 🇧🇷 it sounds like:*
ㅐ= ê
ㅔ= é
I am not sure, i am just trying to help!
Hmmm
Acho que não, no vídeo ela fala que ㅐ se pronuncia com com a boca mais aberta que ㅔ, e também se deixa a língua mais abaixo, já em ㅔ a língua fica mais ao meio da boca, tente pronunciar seguindo essas características e vai ver que a pronúncia de "é" deixa a nossa boca mais aberta e com língua mais abaixo que "e"
thanks for your video i was having a panic attack cause on duolingo they both sounded the sameeee
How to know which to use in spelling?
맞아요 우리 할머니는 구분하시는데 저는 못하겠어요
How do I know which one to use in spelling? Or is it just memorization?
Is it kind of similar to “e” and “è” in french??
C’est ce que je me disais 😃
Which one is ㅐ and which is ㅔ ?
Peut être "é" = ㅔ
Et "è" = ㅐ
Loved your video! I still have one question, how do you know which vowel to used? As it sounds the same, if you don't know the word yet, how do you know how to spell it? Is there a rule or do you just have to look it up on Google or ask someone and then remember its spelling by heart?
korean learn it by heart
I keep hearing not to worry about it, but I keep getting the answers wrong on all the apps I use because I can't hear any difference lol.
I did this morning think to myself, ok, we have so many letters and combinations in English that sound the same. Was trying to feel less frustrated with myself lol
If I go to Seoul in the future, will I be able to communicate with people there with just English?
From what I heard in conversations, it appears that ㅐ is slightly brighter in sound than ㅔ? As eg 'say' vs. 'said'. Maybe??
For me the most difficult in that is when I’m writing
It sounds like the cot-caught merger in American English. Most Brits can enunciate and hear a distinct difference in those two words, but as a native speaker of American English, I pronounce the two words exactly the same. While there are some accents with no merger (esp. in the Northeast of the US) most American accents maintain the merger.
Estoy más confundida que antes...
Even if pronunciation is not an issue, how do I decide what to use while writing? For example my name Snehil can be 스내힐 or 스네힐.
It would be 스네힐. You can watch this video, it might help answer your question: ruclips.net/video/Uw6Dpk_Mt64/видео.html
I should've seen this video sooner 😭
ㅐ= ae as in day or hay ㅔ = eh as in yeh or meh or bed is what works for me.
Big fan plz help me to learn korean like native
Can we have the old generation way of pronounce them? plz
Can you tell me the difference between 뭐 and 무슨 💓
I don’t if am mistaken but I think I see the difference clearly
I see ㅐas a in pay and ㅔas e in set
Can someone tell me where am wrong
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현대 한국어 화자는 이 둘을 구분하지 못하게 된지 이미 오래입니다. ㅐ와ㅔ는 현대 국어에서는 모두 ㅔ 발음으로 통일되었습니다. 근데 왜 외국인들한테 이미 없어져버린 발음을 가르치시는거죠??
국어시간에 졸았냐... 대화할 때는 구분 안 하지만 한 글자만 말할 때는 구분하는데 ㅋㅋ 가령 게나 개라든지. 너가 국어시간에 안 졸았다면 발음으로 구별가능하다
@@henrysmith8819 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 개소리네 ㅋㅋㅋ 국어학계에서 이미 ㅔ와ㅐ는 완전히 통합됐다고 밝힌지가 언젠데 ㅋㅋㅋ 이 둘 구분할 줄 아는 사람들은 최소 1930년대 이전 사람들임. 아마 님도 그 시대 사람인가봐요 어르신? ㅋㅋㅋ
sow is it okey if i say ai on ㅐ and ㅔ .?
2:27 there’s a good reason for that 😂 but it’s hard to explain to someone who doesn’t know history of the English language.
So if the pronunciation is difficult to distinguisch so I have a question. Is there any way to remember in words when is ㅔor ㅐ? Cause I am confuse sometimes and I give conversely. Have you got any advices about that? I will be very grateful!!!^^
Not a lot of tips I can give, unfortunately you just need to know the spelling.
@@YourKoreanSaem I understand thank you for answer 🌹
Then how do you differentiate bw 내 and 네?
Thanks
네 (when it means 'you') is almost always pronounced 니 (and sometimes written that way).
I know rightt!! But i can write "애" sound but cant write "e" Sound on keyboard...Help!!!!
What about 새(bird) and 새(new) they are pronounced slightly differently right?
Also I am quite curious about common mistakes native Korean speakers make with Korean.
TadRaunch the bird 새 is supposedly articulated slightly longer, but the pronunciation is the same :)
Common native mistakes is a great idea! I will add that to my to do list.
if korean have pitch accent, it will be easy to distinguish do korean have pitch accent , ssaem?
@@conan4632 Not really. Korean is monotonous. However, probably in a few decades, a few tones might appear as initial harsh consonants (ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅊ) are less distinguished from basic plosives (ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, ㅈ). In Seoul, already ㄱ and ㅋ in initial of words are distinguished based on pitch instead of pronunciation. This is similar to how ancient Chinese lost its consonants but developed tones.
If it wasn't my major, I won't have stressed over it but it is so I gotta stress over 🙃
Is it just me or I just LOVE listening to Asian speaking English with American or British accent. Its more satisfying for me than it is to hear the accent from native English speaker. Is it just me?
Did not realize there was a difference lol! But I will take that as a compliment. Thanks :D
But I’m still confused since ㅐ ㅔ sound the same, if someone was to say something fast and you were supposed to write it down how could you tell the difference of which one to use?
Probably by already knowing what the word is and how to spell it
So a short E in English?
unnie pls help me with oe , we and wae :((
저기요, 이거 주제요 is my sentence is write or have some mistakes specifically in' 재 '
Can you plss make a video for 얘 and 예
감사합니다!!
I could imagine it's the same, just with the added y sound, but idk I'm not korean lol
@@Jonathan-jg6sk i think they're the same sounds. I mean they both sound like "ye". I guess the differences could be seen in spellings.
Like you could write 예를 들어서 but not 얘를 들어서
Just like how you can write 얘기 but not 예기
This is what i think. I'm still learning Korean so it might not be totally correct.
@@enigma6084 i think so too, I've been learning korean for a while, but this has always stumbled me lol