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I want to see how everyone learned Korean. And the pros and cons of each method and how long it took you? I learned from a book and I think it took me around 4 hours. If you learned from a different method, please specify.

[Css]

From some website before i came to korea..Took me a couple of days to get it all down..

[myenglishisno]

Learned it in less than a hour on a website. Mastered it over the course of a couple of months, mainly just from reading signs and such.

It's sad when you meet people who've been in Korea for more than a few years and can't bloody read hanguel yet.

[MyNameIsNobody]

http://www.youtube.com/user/BusyAtomdotcom#p/c/ADEE2A4DE3FB01E6/0/djB05a4ntQ4

This guy really steps you through the alphabet, but I reinforced it by looking at other videos like one that had a cheesy hangul rap.

Pro: BusyAtomdotcom also takes you through stroke order and sets time at the end of his videos for practice.

Con: There are shorter videos that handle the alphabet, and his spans multiple videos.

AskAKorean has a really good chart that helps with pronunciation in his Korean Language Series � Writing and Reading post.

Pro: The post and pdf chart really give a good do/don't list of rules for pronunciation.

Con: TMI for a total beginner (but definitely worth going back to during different stages of your language acquisition i.e. you know when you're ready for a more complex language point).

[Steelrails]

Sing K-Songs and go to K-Church and sing more K-Songs. Translate K-Song mp3 file titles into Romanization.

[Lazio]

On the subway. Comparing the Hangul written station names to the English written ones.

[Slowmotion]

For anyone who still hasn't learned:

http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Learn_hangeul

[ttompatz]

Back in the day they used to put the city/province on car license plates.

I learned to read one day when driving from Suwon to Busan.

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[eamo]

I printed the Hangeul alphabet and made a laminated sheet which I kept in my bag.

In those days, I had a pretty long commute to work so I'd take out the hangeul sheet, learn the letters, then try to read shops signs as I went by on the bus.

I didn't work too hard at it......just until I got bored doing it. 10 minutes or so. After a couple of weeks I could read Korean!

Still don't know what most of the words mean though!!

[T-J]

[Gimbap Lover]

I took a class over by Sookmyung Women's University. The class is still going on after 8 years but the increased the number of levels and moved to a bigger building. The basic pronunciation class is only one class and each week it's the same. You get the hang of the sounds and some basic vocab and then on to Level 2, you'll get a stronger sense of directions, numbers/counting and basic needs.

[Underwaterbob]

A bunch of the newbies foreigners got together in my town and we drank a few beers and learned the alphabet together with a guy who'd been here studying it for a while.

Now that I think about it, I've learned the majority of the Korean I know drunk. It certainly makes it easier to ask questions of and blather on with the nearest Korean, who's probably also drunk.

[McGenghis]

I think it was subway stops that helped me the most, with the flashing signs that switch between the old 영문 and Korean.

[Bloopity Bloop]

[T-J]