2014-03-26, 09:57 AM
Zelkova Wrote:I am just now starting to learn Korean. It is my understanding that ㅂ can be read as B or P. Is this true?
Yeah, that's exactly it, but when it's used to represent a sound in a foreign language, it can be used in place of V or F. My understanding is very limited as well. I am a big linguistics guy (25 years of study), but I haven't forayed into Asian languages nearly as much as I have into western languages. (I like asian languages better than western because the rules for them are much simpler and straightforward. They are just more difficult to remember because they don't share roots with latin languages.) I really like the Korean writing system because it's actually systematic.