INTRO
Morning! 😃 ☕️
Six weeks of asking for things and finding things.
Today you say something about yourself, and to do it you need one small block you have not met.
In today's email…
- 📱 Day 1: the full sentence, nothing hidden yet
- 🌟 Why Korean marks the topic and English does not
- 🏃 The third kind of consonant
🤗 STILL WITH YOU
___ ___ ___ 어디예요?
Say it out loud before you scroll. Answers at the bottom.
🧠 MEMORIZE
저는 미국 사람이에요
jeoneun miguk saramieyo
"I am American."
Answer key at the bottom.
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Today's trap: not in this sentence. In the pair it contrasts with.
Korean has three versions of most consonants, and English has two.
Plain 자, aspirated 차, tense 짜.
You learned the plain one in week four: no puff. The aspirated one has the puff English gives everything. The tense one is the third, and English has nothing like it: the throat tightens, the sound is short and hard and sharp, with no air at all.
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