Difference Between 어 and 오 | Korean Pronunciation Practice

[@daviddraper5627]

the butt hole bit had me laughing out loud

[@chris9yearsago698]

I snort there

[@1polyron1]

@@chris9yearsago698 don't do drugs kids

[@Eyes_On_America]

I used to mix 어 &오 a lot and I still have a feeling that at the end of the sentence Koreans don't always say -요😅

[@YourKoreanSaem]

You're right, the 요 tends to be pronounced as 여 a lot, and it's even written as 여 in texting too! ex) 안녕하세여

[@user-hb4mk9xk5e]

@@YourKoreanSaem huuuh that's so confusing to me ㅠㅠ I have a dictation in a few hours but I still can't hear it haha

[@markchristianvillaflores7103]

@@YourKoreanSaem sorry to trouble you .. please also make a video about the difference between ㅓㅗㅜㅡ I have trouble to differentiate the sounds between these 4.. sometimes ㅜ sounds ㅗ and ㅗ sounds ㅓ. Same thing with ㅡ and ㅜ

[@lilgreen12]

Can someone please explain ㅕ to me. It's suppose to mean yeo but I often see it turn into yu. Take the rapper yumdda his name in Korean is 염따 shouldn't it be yeomddda. Isn't the symbol for yu ㅠ I seen more examples it always leaves me so confused.

[@salalal7491]

Robert Ramirez just scrap romanizations. don’t trust them. ignore them. they are just confusing. ㅕ is ㅕ and not eo.

[@DinO-zs7ou]

5 minutes of language theory + pronounciation guide + listening practice? This is heaven! In spanish we also have monophthongs. Actually, I think spanish and korean phonologies are quite similar. Our problem is that the 어 sound doesn't exist in spanish so we tend to use 오 instead of 어 One of my language exchange partners told me that sometimes I also commit this error. I plead guilty! hahaha Awesome video, as always

[@Eyes_On_America]

Din O in Polish we have (almost) 어 but not 오, so I used to mix these sounds in the opposite way😛

[@DinO-zs7ou]

@@Eyes_On_America Haha that's curious

[@jcvp2493]

Trata de pronunciar la 어 como si aspiraras aire y la 오 como si soplaras .

[@lolisapiensa3134]

exactamenteee!! me identifico completamente con lo que dijiste.

[@1Ledith]

@@jcvp2493 esto me sirvió!! 고마워요

[@kadenreed8603]

Thanks so much for this video! I can tell 어 and 오 by themselves apart but have difficulty telling them apart in words. After watching this I realized I can always recognize 오 in a word but when I hear 어 I get confused whether it’s 어 or 오. Guess I just have to practice listening to it more.

[@djboo7779]

Different languages are so interesting. Bi or multilingual People absolutely astound me. It’s incredible to think that during their prime language development they were learning to make such different associations with objects and mouth sounds

[@pauloroberto7875]

In português ( Brasil) we have accentuation to make this vowels Like. 오 “ o “ is o And 어 is ó. Same way you pronounced. Both pure vowels.

[@Eyes_On_America]

Paulo Roberto I envy you😛

[@nathsebong4599]

I love our amazing portuguese, it always helps me to learn new languages ❤

[@footg6090]

I am learning Portuguese and have never made this connection, I now feel enlightened

[@isabellaferreiradesouza5731]

Mesmo com a acentuação dificuldade de acertar a diferença, as vezes eu confundia

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

I was just thinking it sounded like a lyric of a funk song “no efeito dominó” by bonde das maravilhas I’m glad my assessment was correct

[@Just__Jamieg33k]

In German O, U, A, I etc are actually monophthongs it was confusing for me at the start when I learned English. Now - 20 years later and being fluent in English - it is a lot easier. I am sure that it'll become easier with Korean as well :) Romanisation confused me though, which is why I don't like it. With 어 being written as eo, I kept reading it as oe all the time which is the German Ö and sounds totally different haha

[@BahaariTV]

The word you said (monophthong) is like music to my ears. Why? Because I'm a Korean teacher and have been FIGHTING for the right pronunciation of ㅓand have been telling my students and anyone else who was learning that there's absolutely NO trace of ㅗ while pronouncing ㅓ and got really rude feedbacks from other teachers (also non-native like myself) that I'm teaching it wrong and they insisted the correct pronunciation of ㅓ is between a (as in uh) and ㅗ (as in old)... -_- Yeah. The struggle's been real. I got to save a lot of students from making this mistake and now their native Korean friends praise them for their native-like pronunciation. Gotta use your video to enlighten the deaf brain cells of those who have been pronouncing Korean words wrong the whole time. It's thanks to romanization. I wish someone would step up and correct the damn system. Thanks for your informative video.

[@stanexo]

this was really helpful! i think it's really sad that, even when my native language is spanish which has constant vowel sounds, i still pronounce korean as if it was english :c but i think this will help! thank you! ^^

[@Mitu_Dutt]

In India, we speak 22 official languages in different parts of the country. I found Korean similar to Hindi language (1 of the 22 languages). That's why sounds produced by Korean letters sounds familiar and easier to learn. But, again every language though we found familiar yet they have their unique traits. And she is very good in explaining korean language. If one is learning any language by oneself, one has to do lot of research until one come across something good. And I think some of my researches leads to something good (you). Thank you for explaining and responding to our queries.

[@mayi4403]

YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!! Are you a linguist? You’re the best I’ve ever heard. Why haven’t I seen you before!!! This is the second video I’ve seen from you, and I have learned sssssooo much from you in a couple of minutes than a year of videos, apps, and books I’ve read. No matter how long I listen to translating apps repeating a sound over and over, I just can’t understand the difference. YOU ARE THE BESSSSSSSTTTT!!! Thank you sssssooo much!! The first video I saw of you was how to pronounce ㅈ, ㅉ, and ㅊ. I’m so impressed! Subscribing for sure!

[@kittyvu5045]

I'm so glad I speak Vietnamese with it's multitude of variations of how to pronounce a vowel depending on how many accents you add

[@butterface2005]

Kitty Vu yeah 오 is like ô and 어 is more like ơ

[@ripjaw6964]

7:43 caught me off guard hahah

[@carolinaguzman687]

I literally burst into laughter

[@HeatherCutright]

Was about to comment the exact same thing 😆

[@birbiri4255]

I can tell the difference when I hear it but I can’t make the sounds with my mouth 🥺

[@KRYoung_dev]

As an (American) English speaker just starting to learn Korean, my brain sometimes hears 어 as "oh" like woe, "ah" like "awe," and sometimes "uh" like "hug." With all the Korean words I learned from watching Kdramas before knowing how they were spelled, 어 sounded the same as "oh" (in woe) to me, which is also how 오 sounds to me most of the time, except sometimes 오 sounds like "oo" (in who) to me, which is what I know 우 is supposed to sound like... 😭 I know I'll get it eventually, but for now it's just hard; I don't want to try pronouncing anything until I hear it spoken. Also, when Korean speakers end a sentence in 요, it sounds like 여 to me when they speak at a normal speed. Curse you, English brain! 😭

[@channelpolitica1364]

ㅓ to me and to many sounds like the ‘aw’ as in when you say “ *aw* that cat is so cute!” Other examples include: The o in doll The o in long The o in wrong As for the ㅗ it is pronounced like word “oh”. Other examples include: Oa in road Oa in moat Oa in Goat O in Token

[@AlotOfSunInHeaven]

That is wrong. Those last examples are all examples of a diphthong (two vowels combined) that Korean does not have. Listen to 03:25 and out, she talks about this.

[@groovyhannah8517]

I think "aw" sounds more like ㅏ not ㅓ

[@moments_workshop3773]

Super helpful thank! I appreciate the imagery lol 7:43

[@amadexi]

In french they have so many vowel sounds, it's scary. a (아), é (애), è/ai (에), i (이), eu (으), o (어), au (오), ou (우), u (between 으 and 우) and then nasal sounds: an, ain, on, un

[@mitsu.hadeishi]

Super helpful. I love your technical explanations. I'd intuited it was the mouth shape but the monothong aspect I was doing but not conscious of. This makes it much easier for me to understand conceptually. Also loved your ㄱ, ㄲ, ㅋ video, that helped a LOT. Thankfully the ㄹ sound is very similar to Japanese (I'm Japanese-American but know enough Japanese to be very familiar with the Japanese "r") so that hasn't been a problem...

[@rikzalmuhammad1731]

i am an indonesian speaker and i found little bit hard to distinguish betwen these two vowels. and your video very helpful. easy and on point explanation.. instant subscribe 감상해요🙏

[@HelloThere-lo3qi]

itu emg yg 오 kedengerannya kayaka "u" yah ntah kenapa dicoba2 ulang malah jadi kayak u T.T

[@abril976]

Hey! I’ve been procrastinating learning how to speak Korean on my own since the start of the quarantine because of so many reasons, you know, it hasn’t been easy. But I unintentionally learned how to read hangeul and being 2 in the morning on a Saturday I realized I couldn’t difference 어 from 오 when it comes to phonetics, and then I found your channel. Thank you so much for this video, I am now subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your content. And excuse my English, I’m a native Spanish speaker (which sometimes makes me feel like I got it easier to pronounce Korean sounds!)

[@skilsuvulcan9770]

we have something like eo in Persian but romanization of it makes it difficult, it is a very simple vowel for Persians but i learn Korean from English perspective.

[@storona3999]

thank you, hearing you say them side by side really showed the difference between them.

[@little-wytch]

learning vowels in other languages is especially difficult for native English speakers because at some point in the past (middle English, I think) the language underwent a vowel shift without the alphabet really changing. One of the strongest examples of this is the English vowel "i" which in many languages has an "ee" sound like the word eel. But in English, the vowel "i" is generally pronounced like the word "eye" or "identify" or such.

[@mabellesaffron]

I didn’t even realize there was a difference 😅 but I can totally hear it now!! So cool!! I absolutely love these videos! They are helping me soo much! It’s nice to talk face to face and see/hear how it is pronounced!

[@stevew2250]

Oh, I could not find this video in your playlist [Korean Pronunciation], but fortunately I got it from a link in another video. Thanks, very helpful.

[@roballswellmacalisang4844]

Before I really stuggled about the eo and o sound, this is really helpful!

[@MrJason300]

Thanks to learning Spanish (or at least some Spanish) in middle school, I’ve been able to differentiate 어 and 오 before learning Korean. This video is so well explained! I hope other people also see this and find it useful :) (I came from a recent post on reddit and was curious)

[@YourKoreanSaem]

Yes I’ve learned that Spanish/Portuguese speakers find this relatively easier to distinguish. Thanks for dropping by! 😊

[@johongo]

what the heck this was a really effective lesson

[@zirkvandenberg7776]

It's not only the shape of the lips, but the position of the jaw that learners can focus on. With 어 the chin drops much lower than with 오. As a learner, I found this to be a helpful way to differentiate. (It also helps that my native language differentiates these sounds.) 어 is more like the "awe" in "awesome" and 오 more like the "oo" in "poor".

[@berfinnurpolat4073]

I have an exam about listening tomorrow and I studied through this video, but it helps, really

[@xgh0stg1rl]

This was actually more helpfull that I thought it would be. I'm Dutch so we actually have a difference between to kind of o sounds too, we have "o" and a "oo", the first one is a very short version of 어 and the second one is the same as 오. Still I find it very difficult to hear the difference between 어 and 오 but when you did the thing with the two words and then which one is used, I could clearly hear the difference! It helped me differentiate betweet the two more, thank you!

[@user-hb4mk9xk5e]

Omg dat maakt het zoveel duidelijker dankje!

[@Kimsy4]

I've finally successfully understood the difference ❤❤Thank you thank you 🤗

[@josephdculp]

ahhhh the mono~dipthong difference does it for me, I've been puzzling lately specifically about 어 and 오 because if I'm in a situation where I gotta switch english and korean alot the english mouth really screws up my delivery. Thankyou! gonna marathon all your pronounciation vids

[@mfu6428]

I really appreciate for your help! I’ve been learning Korean for a really long while (for like 3 years?). Though getting high scores on some Korean exams, I still found myself struggling with those little difficulties like 오 and 어. After watching this I feel much more better about my pronunciation :) I still feel hard to tell when hearing 어, but I am okay with 오 now. I’ll keep trying! Thank you so much.

[@maksumyee]

These exercises at the end were incredibly helpful, as was the diphthong explanation! This was such a needed breakdown of what is so confusing if you’re only using Duolingo to learn

[@bts.army4life88]

this was PERFECT and fixed my issue in 5 min. 감사합니다!!

[@prashil3k594]

Back to basics! Always the best approach! 고(거)맙습니다😂

[@soobinsdolphin]

I've been struggling with this for about an hour now and finally came across your video, absolute game changer, thank you so much!!!!

[@bjmurphy34]

This is very helpful. I'm confident that I understand the difference now. Thank you.

[@Carlos-zz9he]

oh man... this video is gold... :0

[@Carlos-zz9he]

거오울드...

[@ojobandoy8790]

very good explanation 감사합니다

[@512Squared]

Don't confuse the English names for the phonetic sounds. In some words, like 'hole', you will hear something like the diphthong that is the name, but in a word like 'pot', the sound is a monothong, that is more similar to ㅓ. But with ㅜ, it is a new sound. Learning ㅜ and ㅗ are both sounds where lips push forward and squeeze together. It is similar with Finnish u svých is almost identical to ㅜ. That helps me a lot with the Korean forward vowels.

[@tadpoling]

This was so incredibly helpful to me holy cow, thanks a bunch 🤍

[@ezrajoseph9792]

Came here fully intending to skip to the second part, but the breakdown/analysis was extremely helpful.

[@mariaemad3159]

This video really helpful thank you❤❤

[@koroyuki5815]

Thank you very much for explaining this point!! I was really confused 😵‍💫...... that was really helpful!!😆😊🙏♥️

[@glunox]

my biggest issue was to distinguish between "oe" and "a" but now i know "oe" is between "o" and "a". Helped a lot.

[@an.aleien]

Thank you very much for this video! I still have troubles with distinguishing these sounds, but it seems that I have much better understanding of what I should pay attention to. Hope to never order nosebleed at cafe ever again! 😄

[@kahnisen]

Great video. In swedish we have both "a" "eo" "o"and "u". But I think the borders between the vowels might be slightly different so sometimes I think it's hard to hear which vowel I hear in a word anyway. Your test in the end of the video was easy though.

[@ajpanda4488]

Thanks for such a detailed video. The ㅓ sound was hard for me at first because of the romanized 'eo' I was pronouncing like 'Eh Uh' at first, always learn Hangul it helps so much!

[@YourKoreanSaem]

I feel like romanization tends to do more harm than good 😁

[@ajpanda4488]

@@YourKoreanSaem Agreed

[@meika9067]

You are the best teacher. Thank you!

[@ebrelus7687]

I think that you helped me fix the DZ(j)TZ(ch) difference problem. Now i get its polish Z(y) and C(y) only. The monosound concept is really enlightening! It is only a korean manner to put t for ease of spelling it properly. Polish O and polish U. 1 pure sound each. Check any polish words with it on G-monopoly-gle translate. And we also use the latin alphabet... its the western spelling's "genetic limitations" the problem not latinization itself ;-) English o is polish OŁ so yeah exactly a double sound OU. But we have more sounds than Koreans. Poles have also other monosounds as cz like in Chech(czek) China (czajna) which i would translate into korean as middle between Ch and H plus minimal sound EU (as in korean S(y)). In reality there are 2 big barriers. underlying 2. Learning from people who mess it up: Both foreigners who "learned" Korean... or Koreans who speak everyday Korean as it goes. Without conscious form & keeping homogenic systematic structure. Difference between speaking on street and a scripture in a temple. You should not take shortcuts before not grasping avoiding bad turns... Having a native eastern european langauge of satem type coming geographically & historically from the side closer to Iran and Asia naturally brings us korean closer. The died out Tocharian brothers from around Mongolia and north China regions would probably not have any trouble with Korean.

[@PinkChromaCosmos]

I struggle a lot with these two. But this helped a lot, and I'm going to focus on your advice to use vocab to help. My pronunciation is okay, I think, but I have a hard time hearing the difference between the two sometimes. Thank you so much!

[@gbritaney]

Life saver! I have been studying for seven months now. This is so helpful. This will help my spelling! My teacher hopefully notice my improvement.

[@idkwhathandletomakelol]

I just started learning korean last week and this was absolutely helpful for my pronunciation, thank you so much for this.

[@YourOnlyONEofcl]

Wow! Thank you! It's funny because we have both sounds in Philippine languages but only represented by "o". /facepalm. 어 is very close to what we call "open-o" and 오 is close-o. We only have the English "o" in English. It's easier now that I made the connection with our own sounds instead of the English sound. It's now familiar. Thank you so much!

[@minnie777]

Brilliant videeeooooo !!!!! THANKS

[@elvira13434]

Thank you for this explanatory video, it helped me so much! And a fun fact: in Swedish we have a letter "å" that is similar to 어 but with more closed lips (which is why I can hear a clear difference but still has trouble with pronunciation sometimes)

[@zacharyw1558]

Just begin learning Korean and encountered this problem the first day. This is truly a common issue for foreign learners lol. Very helpful and I’m sure your other videos will be as well helpful

[@salalal7491]

This is the first time in my life that growing up german has been useful, because vowels are similar to korean vowels in the sense that you can just keep saying them and they always sound the same

[@cosynins]

This helped so much thank you !! TT you're a life saver!

[@tinymoa14]

It took me a while but I finally hear the difference between ㅂ ㅃ & ㅍ

[@28kemal]

Such a great teaching. good jobs. i understand now

[@semkoops]

Your videos usually consist of just you talking without many added sound effects and much editing. This is great and makes me relax and focus at the same time on what you say. I find these videos very practical when I don't fully understand some of the explanations of other Korean lesson videos. 감사합니다.

[@ChronicAnna]

I loved the whole explanation and especially the practice of words at the end. It makes more sense now, moving forward I will memorize those words to help me with pronunciation and spelling as well. Thank you

[@kazeppa]

I was mostly confused, not because I have a hard time distinguishing them apart, but which letter was which. At the beginning I thought 어 was pronounced as 오 and vice versa. But then I was listening to native speakers and switched them. Then I watched a video while multitasking, and mistakenly switched them again.

[@Scilixx]

"Kinda looks like a butthole." 🤣 I am dead, and you are a gem. Thank you for explaining, humor aside, this was extremely helpful in understanding.

[@dreamgloww6650]

thank you very much!! got stuck with differentiating these 2.. i couldnt hear the difference. its a big help. ill just practice over and over...

[@annegerlyilustre5206]

Been trying to learn this for days and finally got a better grasp because of your lesson! Thank you so much!

[@killiansred1000]

Very late comment, I just found your channel. Picture a cave with a small entrance, ah, and a cave with a larger entrance, ooh. I learn best with sound and a mental picture.

[@pinkette]

I'd been trying to figure out why OK sounded so different in a korean accent. And now I realise it's cos they're saying oh and keh in monophthong! And English speakers pronunciation OK is diphthong

[@gaugaucauvong3731]

'O' 'U' and 'I' in English are definitely diphthongs - The lip position changes half way through. I personally never had any problems with distinguishing ㅓ ㅗ as they're pretty distinct. Learners usually have trouble with ㅗ and ㅜ or ㅜ and ㅡ

[@agnieszkatwardosz5106]

Depends where you're from, 우 and 으 is extremely easy for me but 오 and 어 was a struggle at the beginning.

[@gaugaucauvong3731]

@@agnieszkatwardosz5106 Yeah. The native language of the learner affects that.

[@greenthumbs01]

This. I'm having a lot of trouble with all three, ㅗ ㅜ ㅡ

[@domino6490]

I know 어 more or less from a sort of less rounder sound than how I've been saying it in Japanese, and I've always likened 오 to the "o" in "boy, toy, ploy"

[@alexiscordova219]

thanks for this! lowkey was just gonna resort on eye-to-mouth contact to figure it out, but thanks for that last exercise

[@sandraokellylutz5995]

The thought you put in to this is amazing

[@donpasulka]

Extremely helpful! Thanks!

[@surabhisrivastava864]

Can you do a video on the difference between 에 and 애

[@weweiii622]

We have Korean as our foreign language. I got 7/10 on writing Hangul because the quiz is spelling. The 3 wrongs is me being confuse with 어 and 오

[@recalledsauce3955]

the o sound, T but reversed, is actually quite similar to the short o sound in British variant English

[@miguelrico9924]

3:28 Please do it 3:38 YES! You never let us down

[@mandyc3524]

i had no idea that i have a texan accent til i realized i dont pronounce any of the 어 equivalent english examples correctly... whoops lol thanks for this video its super helpful!!!

[@melty2]

Thank you thank you thank you! It finally makes sense 😃

[@scaramouchessimp3744]

I had a very hard time distinguishing these two thanks for making this video

[@meglydia]

this is super helpful! 감사합니다 ♡

[@ukidding]

This has cleared up a mystery for me.

[@AmickTube]

English speaker, but I’ve never had an issue distinguishing 어 and 오. I’ve definitely been guilty of pronouncing 오 like “oh” instead of “oo”.

[@gaugaucauvong3731]

Great video as always. Thanks! Great with the practicing at the end. Once you have completed all the pronunciation videos then people can recommend the whole series to others and views can grow. I have seen on a lot of other language channels where it takes them one or two years to upload all the pronunciation videos and I've already moved onto other channels by then. I really like what this guy does here with the tongue diagrams and how he demonstrates the differences between ㅅ ㅆ s

[@gaugaucauvong3731]

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[@YourKoreanSaem]

Thanks for sharing! The images and diagrams look like they would be really helpful. I can tell a lot of work went into this video.

[@amirahtamov8239]

Your English is amazing 💚

[@zenithbeaudette7551]

This is great! I could always tell the difference since I started speaking French at around 4 but I was never sure how to pronounce them haha

[@antoni6172]

Thank you! I really needed this video cause I was scared all the time that I will badly learn new words because I can't say 어 and 오 well. Your video really help me. Especially I understood the diffrence with your explain how the mouth is set and exercises at the end of video. 감사합니다!

[@elliotmerijn8891]

감사합니다 🙏🏼 the way you explain things is so clear, it’s the best! i learn very well with the clear pronunciation guide you give. I notice how often times I already kind of guessed it correctly before watching your videos.

[@RandomShizzle1000]

This was so very helpful as an English speaker. You're amazing, thanks!!

[@southerntenacityfilms2051]

Cleared my confusion up really nicely, thanks !

[@user-zy8kr2vw5z]

어 발음과 오 발음이 헷갈렸었는데 이렇게 영상으로 친절하게 설명해주셔서 감사합니다~~

[@IamCree]

As a beginner, these sounds are different to me. However, as I'm learning words, I find there are a lot of words where these two sounds are conflated and one sounds just like the other instead of like how it normally sounds. I think that's probably where the confusion comes from

[@BooksterPeep]

This is the issue I have as well! Even one of the words she had said in the video had more of an Ah sounds than an uh sound to my brain 😅

[@Angie38410]

좋은 영상 감사합니다. 스페인에서 스페인 사람들을 가르치면서 같은 문제를 겪고 있는데 영상이 도움이 많이 되네요.^^

[@user-xd5bm4qw8r]

Perhaps do a video explaining the differences between 어 오 우 because whenever I feel like I get the different between 어 오, 우 ends up sounding like 오 or vice versa and then i get lost resulting in me trying to pronounce 어 오, 우 only for it to sound like 어,어,우

[@praneeth5127]

감사합니다

[@tegamichi7379]

That's a video I was searching for! Thank you very much! ♡