Bear in mind that the Korean language has almost nothing in common with English – and that includes sounds. What Korean guides might describe to you as an "a" sound is going to be slightly different in Korean. When speaking Korean try to imitate the accents and sounds of the Koreans around you – just quit the accent when you come back to English, please.Korean language follows a different rhythmic structure than English. Where English tends to be strongly inflected and stressed, Korean is the opposite. Try to give every syllable of a Korean word the same amount of stress as every other: it's not an-NYEONG-ha-se-yo, nor AN-nyeong-ha-se-yo, but an-nyong-has-se-yo. One common exception is the last syllable of the vowel, which is often elongated and given a rising inflection: kam-sa-ham-ni-daaAAIf a Korean syllable has a final consonant, that consonant is barely pronounced, almost to the point of being a . This difference is responsible for a lot of the pronunciation problems Koreans have with English, and English speakers with Korean.
