http://www.moseshohman.com/blog/2004/09/27/korean-pronunciation/ software development, informatics, etc. Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:57:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.moseshohman.com/blog/2004/09/27/korean-pronunciation/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Moses Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:42:41 +0000 /?p=11#comment-15 <p>Thanks for the comment. That word has no tricks to it: "halmoni". However, the "o" is not the standard English "o", it's more of a cross between "uh" and "o". Also, the "l" is pronounced differently. Instead of putting your tongue near your teeth, put the tip a bit further back, about midway between the top of the roof of your mouth and your teeth. You get a bit of an Indian language sound that way, but don't take it quite that far (incidentally putting your tongue much further back is how you pronounce the Indian sounding d, t, n etc.; that was one of my favorite discoveries while living in India, being the language zealot that I am).</p> Thanks for the comment. That word has no tricks to it: “halmoni”. However, the “o” is not the standard English “o”, it’s more of a cross between “uh” and “o”. Also, the “l” is pronounced differently. Instead of putting your tongue near your teeth, put the tip a bit further back, about midway between the top of the roof of your mouth and your teeth. You get a bit of an Indian language sound that way, but don’t take it quite that far (incidentally putting your tongue much further back is how you pronounce the Indian sounding d, t, n etc.; that was one of my favorite discoveries while living in India, being the language zealot that I am).

]]> http://www.moseshohman.com/blog/2004/09/27/korean-pronunciation/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Andy Bray Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:35:18 +0000 /?p=11#comment-14 <p>How do you pronounce halmeoni, which I think means grandmother? Our granddaughter is 1/2 Korean, and my wife was curious. Thank You.</p> How do you pronounce halmeoni, which I think means grandmother? Our granddaughter is 1/2 Korean, and my wife was curious. Thank You.

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