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[jajdude]

Easy enough to read menus or bus destinations, not much else. Tried reading a grade one level book of "fairy tales" and a good few words not in the dictionary I had, or else all the endings threw more off. By the way ㄴㅇ러ㅏ노 hangul never shows up on this board does it? At least not whenever i access it in the PC rooms.

[matthews_world]

So where is the thread about websites for learning Hangul?

It might be a sticky so I'll check it out. Thanks for the help.

[wormholes101]

[FierceInvalid]

I learned the basics before I got here, but was really slow and had no idea what to do about patchim. Study and street signs took care of that. These days I read comic books - fun practice (I also take a class every weekday, but that's mostly speaking and grammar).

WTF - I once asked a J-girl in my Korean class why the stank there's two phonetic writing systems that represent the exact same sounds in Japanese. She started with the answer you'd expect - Katakana is for borrowed foreign words, etc. So I pressed on with "Yeah, but why do you need a whole new set of symbols just for borrowed words? Why not just write them in Hiragana?" She was totally baffled, and looked at me like I had seven heads....I didn't get any further than that.

[whatthefunk]

[Zyzyfer]

I just assumed that katakana was for really fucking stupid people, hiragana was for stupid people, and kanji was for chimps.

[helly]

I agree that the katakana is for emphasis. Actually, I like this because I know when I come across an imported word, helps me on pronunciation. The biggest problem I have with Korean is changing my pronunciation of an English word to Korean.

I studied Japanese before Korean and didn't have any trouble with the hiragana and katakana. The structure we learned it in was a bit slower than Korean classes that emphasize the hangeul, our Japanese was really conversational at first.

Kanji was a whole different story

[Sarah-in-Korea]

[Mashimaro]

Yep, a korean version of Katakana would be great for all the Konglish. It would never happen though as anything seen to be borrowing from Japanese would never take off.

[Juggertha]

wow, i'm so impressed theres more ppl like me.

I too can read (and write) at a fairly decent level.. I just cant understand anything. I've also done the "reading the bus hting" but that was less for practice and more for practical reasons.

[little mixed girl]

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[jaebea]

I think all soundeffects in manga are in katakana as well. Once again, it's the emphasis aspect of it, to make it stand out.

As for Korean, I could read/write/speak when I immigrated to Australia (kindergarten), but truth to tell, I haven't extended my skills much past that point. Went to Korean weekend school to bring them up to scratch, but it's not spectacular. I'm certain there are people of non-Korean descent who can outspeak, outwrite and outcomprehend me.. especially on this board. :)

The only new vocab and pronounciation revision I pick up is from the endless Korean videos that seem to pass through the house. :)

I noticed someone having trouble with when to recognise the double consonants, for example �� or ��. I think it's got a lot to do with context, in both spoken and written Korean. You can general grasp a hold on what they're talking about pretty easily from the context of what you're talking about, even if things sound odd.

jae.

[wormholes101]

Well... I'm quite impressed with the voting turn-out and that so many people have taken the time to learn the Hangul. 95% approximately... a bit more bearing in mind Desultude accidentally voted for no. Give yourself a pat on the back!

[Tiger Beer]

Hangul is SO SO SO easy. I think anyone can learn the basics in a few hours.. then practice for a few days.. its as simple as learning the numbers 1-100 in another language. Its takes about as long. Just remember the pattern, and its so scientific and phonetic.