Like we did with the consonants, let’s break up the consonants into a few groups; simple, plus Y, and combos. If you can learn the first group, the other two groups can be learned quite easily. For this and the rest of the vowel section, English words with similar vowel sounds are written below as an added help.
With the simple vowels learned, let’s look at what I call the Plus Y group. You’ll notice these four letters are very similar to the first four simple vowels, except each of these letters have parallel small lines. Parallel lines indicate a “y” sound added to the front. That’s it.
Vowel combinations are just that, combinations of vowels. Under each vowel combination is written what vowels are used to create the combination. It will be very hard to tell the difference between ㅐ and ㅔ and even Koreans have trouble with telling them apart on occasion. When Koreans want to clarify, they say 아이 for ㅐ and 어이 for ㅔ.
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