"베를린"
Translation:Berlin
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I don't understand how 를 is pronounced? 비 is be and I thought 르 by itself would be reu why is there a ㄹ under the ㅡ?
So that the last syllable is lin rather than rin.
A letter rieul at the beginning of a syllable is usually pronounced r, one at the end of a syllable usually l.
If you have one at the end and another at the beginning of the next one, then the resulting sound is l.
More like 'r' at the beginning of a syllable, and 'l' at the end. (Though there are exceptions, of course.)
Ok so the last ㄹ in 를 just connects with the first one in 린. It's really just for flow and syllable purposes. So the whole thing would most closely be pronounced as bae-reul-lin. Hope that helps!
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I think of it like this. Imagine if they tried to write Berlin in two syllables as 벨린. Because ㄹ is "L" at the end of a syllable and "R" at the beginning of a syllable, that would be transliterated as belrin which is kind of the opposite of what we want. So in order to get the r before the l we need to have that extra syllable in the middle.
벨린 would be Bellin -- if the rieul is at the end of one syllable and the beginning of the next, it's a /ll/ sound, as far as I know.
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를 (leul) you pronounced it "lul". Berlin, it is pronounced as be-lul-lin, it spells as be-leul-lin (베를린)
This is why I got "Korean from zero" they go into details about grammar lije the r/l, k/g, s/t situation.
| English | Hangul | Romanization | IME Typing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 베를린 | be reul lin | qp fmf fls |
Native Korean pronunciation via Forvo: https://forvo.com/word/베를린/
