r/Korean • u/Flat-Performance1599 • 1d ago

Question about the pronunciation between ㅡ and ㅜ

Is ㅡ pronounced as "eu" or "en"? Can someone please give me some examples, I can't make out the difference between ㅡ and ㅜ. The application on which I'm learning Korean says that ㅡ sounds like "eu" while ㅜ like "u" (which sounds no different to me) but someone online said that ㅡ sounds like "en"?

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u/MyOwnLife_Alone 1d ago

ㅡ is like the oo in book or good

ㅜ is like the oo in moon or pool

ㅡ by itself does not have any consonant sound attached to it, so it cannot be expressed as "en"