Test your Korean listening - tricky CONSONANTS!

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[@kiyk7273]

시 and 씨 is so difficult to differenciate... I got 9/10

[@jerv_6154]

Maja, I was wrong on that part

[@christinalee3047]

The ㅈ and ㅊ can be difficult as well to figure out... same here I got a 9/10 too.

[@minluna7759]

Same mistake..

[@TawnyOwlWings]

Oh same!!

[@debjyotidutta582]

😂😂😂😂

[@kepler1b]

I finally understood the difference between 빠 and 파 thank you so much!!!

[@waterlilycrane4768]

I got 8/10. This was a very good test; very informative, because it taught me the difference in sound between ㅍ and ㅃ.

[@cassie7thomson]

9 outta 10. Was the 시 / 씨 that got me, couldn't remember which one had the longer ss sound

[@neelamvats471]

For anyone confused with 시 & 씨 .... it's easy ....시 sounds more like 'shi' nd 씨 is more like 'C'.......

[@norakristin9978]

I feel like I’ve kind of gotten a grasp of these differences! I still got the ㅅ and ㅆ part wrong thoㅠㅠ

[@laetitiai603]

Managed to only get one wrong but it was a bit tricky

[@janiceknepp4604]

I'm still waiting for an audio course on some of the other reading books you have in your store.

[@imaliakkk]

10/10, yeah!

easy guys

[@lamispjm4135]

10/10 yaaay !

[@talktomeinkorean]

Congrats! 👍

[@dakotaoconnor3685]

I only missed 7 뿔, 물 got me

[@shermspace]

I got no.8 wrong. The ㅃ and ㅍ are still difficult for me, I guess🥲

[@nuts3100]

I lost 2 points ...... Btw I don't know why but Im shipping this two now they are cute together

[@reve_catcger]

씨 and 시 is difficult for me to differentiate ㅠㅅㅠ

[@linguosyntactico]

It didn't help that the sentence started out really slow, and then 씨는 was spoken super fast (relative to the rest of the sentence). The way I can (sometimes) tell is that 시 has a brief puff of air before the vowel starts whereas 씨 cuts to the vowel right away after the "sh" sound.

[@trodat07]

Many people seems to have the same problem with those two. As I already replied elsewhere, 'ㅅ' sounds like a rather soft 'Sh' while 'ㅆ' sounds like a plain 'S'.

[@__-re3ps]

I also found it difficult to differentiate but after listening to the pronunciation I came to know that 시 sounds more like ''shi'' and 씨 sounds more like plain ''c'' or the way you say ''see''

[@__-re3ps]

@@trodat07 yess

[@neelamvats471]

There will be more air sound in case of 시 nd less air sound in case of 씨

[@rensvh98]

Got all of them correct except 시 / 씨… double consonants keep being tricky for me

[@ShinA0512]

Gosh me too! 시 씨 I dun feel the difference…

[@axiomaticoxymoron9111]

Me too :(

[@ピンス]

me too

[@AdrianoRoma93]

I guessed that one right this time, but then failed at ㅃ/ㅍ. 😓

[@FLujb]

저도요

[@derpderp9281]

Awesome video! the tricky ones for me were exactly the 시/씨 and 주/추 - they still sound the same to me XD

[@arya.5]

Same! And also ㅃ and ㅍ 😣

[@arya.5]

@worldwide handsome’s mirror ohhhhh thank youu!!! 💕

[@x.zozo.x]

주 is pronounced as ‘jhu’ and 추 is pronounced as ‘chu’

[@e.k5855]

@@x.zozo.x but the difference isn’t the same as it is in english

[@veinrose7667]

ㅈ has more of a g/j sound whereas ㅊ is a ch sound

[@lena-trajkovic17]

I managed to get all of them somehow, and i feel really good about myself now, thank you guys!! Looking forward to the next listening practice!!

[@arsematsegaye4036]

Could you please make a video on how to talk about yourself without saying “저는” or “나는” every sentence :) thank you

[@teya7215]

저는 is a formal form of "I'm" And 나는 is an in Informal way to say "I am'' 😀😀😀😀😀😀 Hope it helps.

[@pepperminteu]

Hi! You can just leave it out. Sometimes you'll have to use one of them at the beginning to set the context that you're talking about yourself, but after that you can leave it out. Tho ofc there will be times when you'll really have to mention 저 or 나, especially when you think the sentence is too unclear without it.

[@pepperminteu]

Adding another comment to give an example: If you wanna say: I try my best to study Korean but I don't have a lot of free time. I plan to do better in the future though. You can say somnething like: 한국어 진짜 공부하고 싶은데, 자유시간 별로 없어서 못 해요. 그렇긴 하지만 앞으로 더 열심히 노력하려고 해요. You can completely do without 나 or 저 because the context is clear.

[@arsematsegaye4036]

@@pepperminteu ohhh so if in the beginning I already use “저” to confirm I’m talking about myself i can just say the same sentence without “I” for example “ I went to the store, got cupcakes and also got bread” instead of “ I went to the store I got cupcakes and I also got bread” ?

[@pepperminteu]

@@arsematsegaye4036 yes exactly!! :) You can even skip the "I" in the first part of the sentence you gave You can just say, technically, "went to the store, got cupcakes and also bread" and it would still be clear that you're talking about yourself :)

[@lizvani]

Double consonant are STILL too difficult to distinguish for me.... * sigh *

[@LessonIsNeverTry]

Had fun not only matching the sounds, but figuring out what the sentences mean. I didn't realize that my Korean vocabulary had come so far!

[@peanutbutter9831]

I got everything right instead of 시 and 씨 😅🥰🌹

[@ValeriaRodriguez-ld1dw]

It's interesting how I can pronounce differently 주 and 추 but I can't distinguish them when I hear both, I'll have to focus on those!

[@Hanannn2.0]

Same

[@user-pn9bt7lh3p]

I am the first one who liked this video don't know why bit feeling proud to be early

[@runtsgal]

I often have problems telling 시/씨 and 지/치/찌 apart but I guessed all of these correctly. This was fun to do, thanks.

[@lamarinaparlant]

It's the 1st time i get all of them ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ ty for your lessons guys

[@Bartu866]

I think this test was a bit easy. Even if I was a real beginner, I would only get hard at 3 questions. Greetings from turkey

[@AkiraFireAngel]

I got 8 out of 10.. i really have a problem when it comes to aspirated consonants :D

[@r7cosmosr7cosmos24]

I missed 3!. Do more of these tests please.

[@ana1977x]

Lots of 사랑 from Germany 🇩🇪

[@TheCelticer]

Genau :-)

[@cherylschaeffer7832]

I got all 10 correct. I give the credit to my 발음 선생님 who has helped me tremendously to hear and say these combinations better.

[@2ys23]

I got the most right, but no matter how careful and much i listen to the pronunciations of 씨/시 and 물/뿔, i don't get the difference between them ㅠㅠ

[@khushidwivedi9115]

The only mistake I made was with 물 and 뿔. Got everything else correct 😊

[@summer7723]

10/10 I got all of them and I’m kinda proud of myself!! Thank you TTMIK 선생님들!

[@yooril_]

I seriously need help with ㅅ and ㅆ i cant even guess it right xD

[@caryans1368]

시옷 and 쌍시옷 are so hard to tell apart ㅠㅠ that's the only one I couldn't get

[@user-ij1xo1ri2g]

Ooo...wow!!! I got everything right😄😃

[@KhanajaScottProductions]

😅 i find 시 & 씨 to be easy but the one i missed was 물 & 뿔

[@BloodBringsColorAndFluoresce]

I got them all right!! 😭💖 Took me 5 months to differentiate between ㅆ and ㅅ

[@qvarnstromnathalie2668]

I only missed one. I honestly thought I would miss more 😅 I am in chock. And really pumped to study more! 😍 Thank you and do more of these! It was so much fun and you can both listen to the sounds, figure out the words and figure out the sentences 😃

[@antarapal7029]

I got all correct but that is all thanks to how clearly TTMIK professors speak! They make learning very comfortable and rewarding. Thank you!

[@jinmyluv]

I got them all except for number 8. I can't understand the difference between ㅃ & ㅍ 😭😭😭 I should practice it more, please make more of these videos, they're SO HELPFUL 💜💜💜

[@muzikk67]

ㅃ is more like a B, and ㅍ is more like a P.

[@RobertHeslop]

My mind still baffles me as to why every time I hear 물 that the 미음 sounds like ㅂ

[@paulinem]

Full scores! But hearing it right is relatively easy, the tough part is pronouncing correctly 😂😂

[@Hlebka]

7/10 I'm satisfied with myself xD

[@SageT93]

100%! I'm so proud of my progress. I would love to try a harder one next.

[@teya7215]

Hii

[@newroses]

I got all of them right except for 물 / 뿔

[@MadeleineMedia16]

I made everything but 1 😍✌ ㅅ and ㅆ

[@hhbdvv]

Il have 9/10 it's easy

[@fj12n3]

Can you guys make a vid focusing just on double consonants vs their single consonant counterparts ?

[@briannaperkes3875]

That would be awesome 👍👍

[@PedroH568]

Nem sei coreano mas tô testando

[@sebinbayarea]

got all right. I must say the 시/씨 or 비/삐 is a bit challenging

[@funeraldrug]

i study korean for over 6 y frantically and that's still something that annoys me :/

[@donyt4926]

8/10 ;-; I got s vs ss and n vs d wrong 😔

[@solonada9602]

나는 한국어를 절대 배우지 않으리라 ㅠㅠ

[@julieannborlaza7582]

8/10 HAHAHAHAH

[@agietaprilio]

Aku suka konten ini

[@Jaspreet18]

Lots of love from India 🇮🇳💜😘

[@lunaticpetunia616]

2:25 어려웠어요!

[@kusum6634]

9개 맞았어요 😀

[@larissapinheiro610]

I got 8/10

[@kiarafernando13]

Wowwww I got everything right!🤩 This is a great listening practice!

[@Verbalaesthet]

I dont think this exercise is necessary for distinguishing sounds like P and T etc. These come natural to all foreigners. But the difference between bb and p or sshi and shi and all these Korean specific sounds is a whole nother story. So especially the consonants that have 3 versions and the vowels that dont exist in some other languages should be contrasted.

[@spkn_hues]

Hey! I got 9 put of 10! I've been studying Koream for 5 months or so, and going back and learning Hangeul has made the learning process much easier! It's a must, and the first step any new learner should start with!

[@Apple-jy7nj]

전반적으로 문제가 이상한데? 앞뒤상황 안주어지고 저런식으로 빈칸내면 어떻게 맞춰? 경우에따라 답이 될수가 있는데 저건 문제가 틀렸음

[@rijome840]

The funny (or not) thing is that I can easily differentiate between ㅅ/ㅆ, ㅈ/ㅉ/ㅊ, ㅂ/ㅃ and so on...I just can't pronounce it... Especially ㅈ/ㅉ/ㅊ ...

[@NathyIsabella]

OMG, 4 and 6 were soo hard! AND HOW COULD I GET 물 WRONGGGG????????

[@kolourfulneco]

I passed. With flying colour. I almost got the 시하고 씨 wrong but I succeed

[@lungilejenniferngubane2633]

Duolingo actually teachess some of these...but they hardly explain these of course.

[@hwamilka]

I got them all correct! I thought I wouldn't get 시/씨 but apparently the difference is just what I suspected.

[@luckywinter2459]

I couldn't hear number 7 properly, 물 / 뿔, and got it wrong. Luckily I got the 시 / 씨 right. 9/10

[@princessenzinga528]

Hi guys! I have started to learn Korean recently and I need help tho :( why do I tend to hear the sound "b" when it's truly a "m" sound? For instance, I have heard the word "miyanada" / "miyan" / "miyane", which is supposed to mean "I'm sorry", in dramas and I used to hear and prononce it ""biyanada" / ""biyan" / ""biyane" until I actually watched the drama without the English subtitles. That's when I realized that the letter was truly an "m". Could someone explain the trigonometry behind this to me please :( ? (ps: this "phenomenon" also tend to happen with some other sounds but I don't remember right now). That is also why I got the seventh question wrong (I got most of the questions right tho)... Thank you

[@by_la.a]

2:15 is the most confusing for me, I got the answer right intuitively but when I wanna pronounce it I can’t, cause I don’t understand the difference :( There is the same problem with ㄱ&ㅋ ㄷ&ㅌ ㅂ&ㅍ they all sound the same (too similar) when in the beginning of the word…

[@sora6968]

Got all of them! Can't believe it! 😭😭😭 But I'm still bad at pronunciation, tho

[@SolangeGamaCoelho]

I'm brazilian and I can't listen the difference between the words in question 8. Thank you

[@7carol]

everybody having trouble with 시 and 씨 when for me it's 빨아야 and 팔아야 that sound the same 😩😢😂

[@eoinokeeffe7014]

9/10 This was kind of a weird quiz because in many cases the choice was between two words that don't sound alike at all. ㅎ and ㅍ are about as different-sounding as two consonants can be. Still, I always appreciate new content from TTMIK.

[@leo_ga11]

10/10, thanks for uploading this video guys! :)))

[@Carnibee]

Number 7 was really confusing. You pronounced both of the answers and I still heard ㅃ and not ㅁ when you said the sentence again. I’ve listened to it several times and I’m so confused. Can you please explain why?

[@123pgq]

I had 7/10. Differentiating between 추 and 주, 씨 and 시 is a bit difficult... Also I didn't get 파 and 빠 right, but the difference is more clear to my ears at least!

[@sulingga]

Got all correct except the double consonant ones. ㅆ&ㅅ are impossible to distinguish though I can usually distinguish ㅃ&ㅍ from each other but got it wrong here due to 빨리 just before sounding more like ㅍ since it is the first syllable.

[@thaistranger4181]

시 씨 little bit difficult for me. I'll try the best. Thank you for sharing.

[@discount_juseyo5321]

omo I could differentiate between ss and s...wow...really wow!!!

[@mileminia]

Ahah I got it all right 10/10 🔥💪🏽 Now I just need to learn more words 🥲

[@고양이-w1h]

You can already guess which one i didn't guess right by looking at the comments XP

[@111ena]

I got 8/10, but I surprisingly got 씨 / 시 correct because the only way I can differentiate them is that 시 is more of an sh sound while 씨 kinda sounds like tss or an intense snake

[@nafkingroene]

9/10 the difference between 춥다 and 줍다 sometimes is so tricky and is more usual to use and hear 춥다 so 😔

[@Bennime_Once]

I listen to 7. 10 times and still hear bul. When pronouncing mul seperately it sound like a clear mul. Not sure why people have trouble with 시 and 씨 one sounds like shi and the other like si (c)

[@purplearmybomb974]

I can distinguish everything except 씨 and 시😕. But the video was really nice ❤️ love from india ttmik🤗

[@eslemsdailyy5914]

i 물/뿔 i did it wrong 9/10 i think it was easy when i did it wrong, i could do it full :( (it was easy i think)

[@eunbidraws3778]

I only got 시 correct bc of the context...i feel dumb cuz I got 6 and 7 wrong ㅊ,ㅈ and ㅁ, ㅃ

[@simangcheung9420]

십/씹If you're wrong, something big will happen

[@monikamalinowski]

씨 and 시 literally sound the same... and in the example when they said seed vs. poem there was a difference, but in the sentence it definitely sounded like 씨....

[@rozya.6332]

couldn't rlly differentiate much between 물 and 뿔 so gotta practice more but otherwise, that was fun hehe

[@leonken7709]

I got 9/10 because I couldn't hear the difference between 시 and 씨 in number 4.

[@AntTonyLOLKID]

I'm same with most people, the double constants are the hardest, i.e. ㅅ vs ㅆ, ㅂ vs ㅃ Same with Cantonese. I get some differences, but there are a few I've encountered that sound much much more similar than Korean ㅅ & ㅆ.

[@saisaipech]

#4 is haaard but luckily managed to get it right. it didn't sound forceful to me thus i chose B. mul in the first reading of the sentence sounded like "bul" :O

[@brunoesteves6711]

i can hear the difference between all letters, but im only struggling with 시 and 씨, cuz it looks just the same for me, and its only this case, cuz 사 and 싸 are easy to differentiate

[@edithl8625]

If you could repeat the sentence twice and give a bit more time, it's frustrating to see the answer almost immidiately...

[@MTaraV]

I somehow got the ㅃ/ㅍ sounds right but 시/씨 is just so difficult for me. I can hear a difference between them when they are pronounced back to back but I cannot pinpoint what it is nor I can tell which one is used in a sentence when spoken to me 🤧