Korean Pronunciation

he roughly 6,500 languages are around the world as well as every language has their own distinctive pronunciation. it is not merely restricted to English. Therefore, it happened frequently to the foreign learner that the majority of them tend to speak English with their own style as their first language when learning English. Additionally, according to Jeremy Harmer (2005, p.184) “Frequently foreign language speakers want to retain their own accent when they speak the foreign language because that is part of their identity.” However, the fact is that non-native English speaker’s sort of pronunciation feature brings them in problem to communication with others in English. Korean learners are also one of them who study English as a second language

The consonant /v/ sound is voiced and classifying as a labiodental fricative. That sound produced by blowing air smoothly out the mouth between friction of the upper teeth and under lip. But the labiodental fricative /v/ does not exist in Korean. so they are constantly pronouncing as the bilabial plosives of voiced /b/. for example: pronounces van instead of ban, vet instead of bet, vest instead of best etc. The consonant /f/ sound is voiceless and classifying as a labiodental fricative that sound produced by often the mouth between friction of the under lip and the upper teeth and blowing air smoothly out of mouth. But as previously stated in the absence of the labiodental in Korean, they often pronounced the /f/sound as a bilabial plosive of voiceless /p/. For example: pronounces part instead of fart, pee instead of fee, pan instead of fan, pork instead of fork

The voiceless / θ/ and voiced / ð/. Both of them is are dental fricative that is same principle to make sound which is produced by air flow smoothly through a narrow channel when the tip of the tongue against the back of the upper teeth. But by Korean learner, the non-existent / θ/ sound pronounces as an alveolar fricatives /s/. For example: pronounces sink instead of think, miss instead of myth, sing instead of thing etc. and the voiced / ð/ pronounces as an alveolar plosives /d/. For example: pronounces day instead of they, dose instead of those, dough instead of though, den instead of then