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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "공책" in Korean?
gong-chaek. A held nasal in the middle, then an aspirated ㅊ that keeps its breath, and a final ㄱ that closes in silence.
gongchaek
Two beats. A nasal does not tense a following consonant and this one is aspirated anyway, so nothing changes at the seam and the word is pronounced exactly as its parts suggest -- unusual enough to be worth noting.
Listen: 공책
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Hear it in a sentence
공책에 이름을 쓰세요.
Gongchaege ireumeul sseuseyo.
Write your name in the notebook.
Listen: 공책에 이름을 쓰세요.
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공책에 이름을 쓰세요 attaches 에, so the trapped ㄱ moves forward and voices, giving gong-chae-ge. Then 이름을 taps its ㄹ and 쓰세요 opens on a tensed ㅆ over the lip-flat ㅡ.
Where English speakers slip
Letting a small g out after 공 is the recurring nasal error. The other is under-aspirating the ㅊ, which turns 책 into 잭 and takes away the word's strongest sound. And the final ㄱ should be a silent closure rather than a released English k.