"서울, 런던"

Translation: Seoul, London

[MatthewSch500054]

I don't think they should pronounce the words. It makes it too easy. I'd rather try and read the Korean words without it telling me what they are.

[Candyswur]

Yea..I strongly agree.I put my volume down so that I can't hear it and hardwork. :D

[Ayieshah]

Lower your volume?

[MizzDrew22]

I hear soul...

[Unicornmon3]

If you listen closely, or listen to a Korean person say it, they pronounce it as two syllables. So it is very similar to the English word soul but not quite as soul is a one syllable word :P

[Dot844345]

Apparently that's the common English pronunciation of the town.
I learned it pronounced as "SEE all" years ago , but recently I've been told that's wrong too.

I really wish Duolingo had a better text to speech program. It's Korean pronunciation is noticeably bad even to people who don't natively speak Korean.

[circularsquare]

Actually it's not that bad. But there are plenty of resources online that discuss Korean phonology, if you'd like to figure out how everything is actually pronounced. 서울 is pronounced /sʌ.ul/, approximately "suh-ool".

[CSBKnight_]

no, they say soeil, it's far from soul - soul is more like soyl

[Lucas_popularguy]

Right

[Dalisiasmu]

Does anyone else hear dondon when the person says london while reading the Korean spelling of it.

[Ratiba136152]

MaP oF tHe SeOul PeRsOnA

[hermesian]

MaP oF ThE SeOul 7

[AnyeCheng1]

It worked!!!

The report buton worked!

[Candyswur]

What?I mean why to report?Duo is only teaching us how koreans pronounce it!! it isn't always pronounced how it's written..do we pronounce all the words just how it's written in English?then why do yoy expect it in korean??!!
Koreans pronounce seoul as saur;l and london as dondon..
You should watch kdramas to get familiar with korean accent!!
Is Duo blamed for helping us with korean accent??!!

[JulissaLyc]

Wait, Seoul is in London now? Cool.

[BiboySabay]

Why not 론돈 instead of 런던

[jkbestboy]

Same question :/

[MiChaeng7]

Momo's meme
Dahyun & Chaeyoung stan
Saida & Michaeng shipper

[adel926635]

I learn how to speak korean for understand BTS Vlive

[Ladyboss10]

For those that are confused,Seoul is pronounced as suh-ool. If youre still confused the other comments might help more. : )

[ohdang_m4tt94]

♪도쿄, 서울, 런던, 뉴욕♪

[Hermione934133]

there should be a thing where you can say "it was a typo"

[Michael484510]

I hear solely for the city of Seoul, and dun dun for of London

[mxchijimin]

SEOUL NEW YORK OR PARIS

[sae-ron]

Seoul ,korea=BTS and blackpink

[Mariana329207]

Tokyo, Seol, London, New York e eu não sei o resto

[pamferrarez]

The pronunciation in 서룰 is wrong. The correct pronunciation should be like So.ul, like soul.

[Ash-Fred]

I'd say 런던 is slightly different from what you'd hear from a native speaker, but 서울 is correctly pronounced.

[QueenBunBu]

I don't think you know but the l or r can't be pronounced as great because Koreans are used to ㄹ, not our l or r.

[Druckles]

Spelling it "soul," shouldn't be marked wrong any more than spelling London wrong would. Spelling mistakes happen.

[tessabanessa]

Well you would be marked wrong for spelling London wrong. You misspelled Seoul so why wouldnt that be wrong?

[billywm]

It has never been spelled "soul" in English. If you've been doing that for years then you've been doing that wrong for years.