"워싱턴, 부산, 삼성"

Translation: Washington, Busan, Samsung

[siwoyu]

Weo-sing-teon, bu-san, sam-seong am I wrong?

[army_girl21.]

That's not weo Itz Just wo

[eu_anap]

Only the "weo" is wrong... Is "wo (ㅝ)"-sing-teon in reality, but the rest are right.

[xhalfltm]

how are these three related

[sen_perotagalog]

They are just getting us familiar with the alphabets

[Yuri972655]

They're just making us familiar with hanggul and making our reading skills better

[deactivated user]

honestly tho xD

[abolfazlparadox]

Interesting

[ph.bJ31oM]

The 's' pronunciation. I think.

[AnyeCheng1]

This does not make any sense to my brain. Sorry, Duo

[JoshuaTheKing]

Here. Take this. =-O :O ;-)

[HerbalTeeth]

Why is 삼성 Samsung and not Samseong, obviously I know what the company is just wondering about the romanization.

[JulleaOliv]

I think they consider it a borrowed word. So the English spelling it is.

[ALLintolearning3]

Samsung is not a borrowed word though.

There was an earlier Romanization spelling before
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Korean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

https://www.duolingo.com/skill/ko/Loan-Words/tips-and-notes

[Laurens989919]

Why is the ㅅin 워싱탄 pronounced "sh" and in 부산 "s"? Are there rules for this? Or is this something you have to memorize for every word?

[ThainThain]

When the "s" is with an "i" like 시 it is pronounced like sh

[xXHallowXx]

They are combined with different symbols which makes it so that the pronunciation is different with the certain combinations of said symbols. So, because the shiot (s symbol in Korean) makes a different sound because of the way it is paired with the other 4 different symbols.

TL;DR Hangul is confusing :D

[tae_jeon]

Yeah when it gives three of the word it always cofuses me and pressure to my little brain

[basyira1]

i think it because the ㅇ its pronounce "ng" so it more comfortable/eazy to spell 싱 as "shing" rather than "sing" and it maybe also adapted from the word itself , waSHINGton. just a guess , hope u understand!

[starberry4]

I think it's a rule!

[ShaymaAbba]

All of them is correct there is nothing wrong

[Candyswur]

Come on..stop pocking Duo..it's all right.
What's wrong?and why wouldn't it make sense?and if you ask why samseong and not samsung,this is how koreans pronounce it.
It's the korean accent that Duo wants to give us!!

[ph.bJ31oM]

Yes. That's the thing. their pronunciation. Very tough. It'll take more time to learn korean than any other languages. Have patience everyone.

[deactivated user]

Ah, yes, the view in Samsung, London is beautiful! I really want to go back!