Hey yo man, I love your podcast. I just wanted to let you know about one little big problem that will help when you pronounce Korean words. Here it is. When Korean is Romanized, the letters “eo” sounds is “aw” and not “ee-yo” or “eh-yo.” It is, in fact, just the vowel sound “aw.” So, Goryeo (고려) sounds like “Gor-yaw” and not “Koree-yay-yo.” I understand that one can get bogged down in pronouncing foreign words and it can get a bit ridiculous. Whoever decided the decided Korean Romanization did a pretty good job, but legitimately screwed up with the 어/여 vowel Romanized as aw/yaw or au/yau than the “eo” thing which every native English speaker I’ve ever heard just say “ee-yo” or “ee-oh” because, I get it. I’m a native English speaker.
Thank you for the tip – I really appreciate it! I will work harder to correct my Korean pronunciation as much as possible, it’s so hard to keep up with the various romanization systems which seem to have been randomly assigned throughout East Asia.
Hey yo man, I love your podcast. I just wanted to let you know about one little big problem that will help when you pronounce Korean words. Here it is. When Korean is Romanized, the letters “eo” sounds is “aw” and not “ee-yo” or “eh-yo.” It is, in fact, just the vowel sound “aw.” So, Goryeo (고려) sounds like “Gor-yaw” and not “Koree-yay-yo.” I understand that one can get bogged down in pronouncing foreign words and it can get a bit ridiculous. Whoever decided the decided Korean Romanization did a pretty good job, but legitimately screwed up with the 어/여 vowel Romanized as aw/yaw or au/yau than the “eo” thing which every native English speaker I’ve ever heard just say “ee-yo” or “ee-oh” because, I get it. I’m a native English speaker.
Thank you for the tip – I really appreciate it! I will work harder to correct my Korean pronunciation as much as possible, it’s so hard to keep up with the various romanization systems which seem to have been randomly assigned throughout East Asia.