Intermediate consonants of Hangul

 The consonant ' ㄷ' is pronounced as ' d' at the beginning, and as ' t' at the end of a character.

'ㅂ' sounds like 'b' at the beginning, and as 'p' at the end, while ' ㅈ ' is pronounced as ' j' if it is at the beginning and as 't' at the end.

The ending ' t' is pronounced very seakly and without aspiration, so it is barely audible.

ㄷ  

desk [d ] 다리 [da-ri] : leg, bridge

cat  [t ] 받침 [bat-chim] : prop

You may have noticed that several consonants we have seen so far sound like ' t' if they are at the end of a characer, namely; ' ㅅ, ㄷ, ㅈ ' .

It turns out that there are only 7 different final consonant sounds, which we will discuss in detail after we introduce all the consonants.

The last consonant we study in this section is  ' ㄹ ' , which is pronounced as ' r' in 'ring', however, with a slight rolling ' r' sound. 

When at the end, however, it is pronounced as ' l ' .

This consonant may explain the frequent confusion between ' r' and ' l' by some Koreans

In any case, as we will see soon, the pronunciation of ' ㄹ ' creates some interesting challenges.

This content was taken from the book [ Learning Korean with a smile] .