Read your first ten Korean words

No new letters. Put the sixteen you have met together to read dog, bird, water and seven more. These words come back in both stories at the end.

≈ 2 min of reading · Practise at your own pace

What’s in this chapter

All ten words are built from the sixteen letters you have just seen, and you will keep meeting them along the path and in the first book.
Each hint gives you the letters of the square; you supply the sound.
Two of them close on a letter that is not said the way it is written; the next section is about exactly that.

No new letters. This is the win, and it comes before the alphabet.

Take each square apart, say the whole word aloud, then reveal it.

개
ㄱ + ㅐ
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개gae“dog”
새
ㅅ + ㅐ
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새sae“bird”
해
ㅎ + ㅐ
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해hae“sun”
나무
Two squares: ㄴ + ㅏ, then ㅁ + ㅜ
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나무na-mu“tree”
여우
Two squares, the circle silent in both: ㅇ + ㅕ, then ㅇ + ㅜ
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여우yeo-u“fox”
물
ㅁ + ㅜ + ㄹ
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물mul“water”
길
ㄱ + ㅣ + ㄹ
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길gil“road”
집
ㅈ + ㅣ + ㅂ — a ㅂ underneath is a plain p
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집jip“house”
곰
ㄱ + ㅗ + ㅁ
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곰gom“bear”
숲
ㅅ + ㅜ + ㅍ — the ㅍ loses its puff underneath
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숲sup“forest”

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