Daily Archives: July 6, 2009

Korean Vowels

Pronouncing Korean is difficult. You will find that differentiating between certain vowel sounds is nearly impossible. I wish it was easy, but it’s not. The biggest pronunciation tip ( for vowels, consonants, phrases, sentences…)  is the following. Listen carefully (and I mean carefully) to the vowels voiced by a native speaker or at the very [...]

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Handwriting Typefaces (free!)

The Century Gothic typeface wasn’t working for me as a handwriting example for my lessons. I recently found a few alternatives that were perfect. More  can be obtained by going to about.com, but the ones below are the most accurate handwriting typefaces. Download the opentype and truetype versions in one nice little zip package. More [...]

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