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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "처럼" in Korean?
cheo-reom, both vowels the same unrounded ㅓ. Open with a real puff on the ch, tap the r, and close the lips for m.
cheoreom
Two beats of equal weight, and since both carry an identical vowel the word doubles as a small consistency test -- if the second syllable comes out rounder or darker than the first, one of them has slipped off target.
Listen: 처럼
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Hear it in a sentence
오늘은 봄처럼 따뜻해요.
Oneureun bomcheoreom ttatteutaeyo.
Today is warm like spring.
Listen: 오늘은 봄처럼 따뜻해요.
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오늘은 봄처럼 따뜻해요 attaches 처럼 to 봄, so the ㅁ runs straight into the ㅊ with the lips closing and then releasing into the affricate. Further along, 따뜻해요 packs in a tensed ㄸ, the ㅡ vowel, and an aspiration fusion where the ㅅ batchim meets ㅎ, coming out tta-tteu-tae-yo.
Where English speakers slip
Under-aspirating the ㅊ pulls the word toward 저럼 and blurs the particle into something else. Push the breath through. The second issue is reducing the unstressed second syllable to 'rum' or 'rem', when Korean keeps the ㅓ at full value -- there is no vowel reduction here however quickly you speak.