Sound Investigations – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwgQ1aWKYtc
I wasn’t sure what I was expecting when I clicked on the link but what I happened to see in the video was actually pretty fascinating. The Korean Consonants is a mixture of both hard and soft sounds.
“Bah, Pah, Tah, Dah, Kah, Cha, Jah, Tah, Kah, Gah, Kah “
As you can see, many of the words he said either starts with a soft letter or a hard letter. I found it really interesting that the man in the video decided to put a piece of paper in front of his mouth so that it accentuates the amount of pressure used when saying the particular word. I realized that when he said a word that started with a soft letter such as “Jah” or “Gah” the paper didn’t move at all, however when he said a word with a hard letter such as “Kah” or “Pah” the piece of paper moved much more. When I watched the video for about the 5th time I found something else quite interesting. When the man was speaking in the beginning of the video, I realized that he was actually putting more enthusiasm or accentuates more on his consonants than most people might. It’s quite amazing to see that peoples mother tongue actually follows you into your daily lives and is passed onto how you speak your second language, in his case English.
COOOOOOOL!
