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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:50 pm Post subject: Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes |
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Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes
http://9gag.com/gag/3968335 |
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Teelo
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Lol I learned to read korean years ago, was very very surprised at the time how simple it was. Easier than english, actually. |
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soomin
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Love it! The whole reason King Sejong made Korean was so there would be a writing style easy enough for the peasants to use... so no excuses!
Well, except for the few exceptions like ㄴ + ㄹ = ㄹㄹ and such~ ^.^; |
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zombiedog
Joined: 03 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| ok ok... learn how the korean characters sound in 15 minutes. spend years trying to read a sentence. |
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Nismo
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:58 am Post subject: |
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I know this is a trite argument, but like an addict hopelessly trying to stave off his craving, I will give in and type it anyway. If you can't learn to read hangul in a minimal amount of time (like the plane ride over to Korea), then you might not have an aptitude for languages. I don't even entirely believe in the concept of language aptitudes, but I might be willing to accept it as proof of their existence that someone adequately concentrating is unable to learn hangul.
I'm not saying that linguistic acquisition of the language is easy for English speakers, but hangul is by far the easiest orthography/syllabary to learn.
Oh, and King Sejong didn't invent hangul - He commissioned and promulgated it. There's a big difference there. It's like saying Richard Nixon was the first man to walk on the moon. |
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Kimchifart
Joined: 15 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Oh, and King Sejong didn't invent hangul - He commissioned and promulgated it. There's a big difference there. It's like saying Richard Nixon was the first man to walk on the moon. |
Are you, Sir, seriously suggesting that a Korean of senior rank would pass of the work of a Korean inferior as his own?
I find this very hard to believe. |
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Teelo
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Nismo wrote: |
Oh, and King Sejong didn't invent hangul - He commissioned and promulgated it. There's a big difference there. It's like saying Richard Nixon was the first man to walk on the moon. |
Are you, Sir, seriously suggesting that a Korean of senior rank would pass of the work of a Korean inferior as his own?
I find this very hard to believe. |
Lol I c wut u did thur. |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Nismo wrote: |
| Oh, and King Sejong didn't invent hangul - He commissioned and promulgated it. There's a big difference there. It's like saying Richard Nixon was the first man to walk on the moon. |
That's what I'd always been told, but some academics I know tell me current research actually seems to show Sejong was personally responsible for a lot of it. If I get some cites or info from them I'll post here. |
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Nismo
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| FMPJ wrote: |
| Nismo wrote: |
| Oh, and King Sejong didn't invent hangul - He commissioned and promulgated it. There's a big difference there. It's like saying Richard Nixon was the first man to walk on the moon. |
That's what I'd always been told, but some academics I know tell me current research actually seems to show Sejong was personally responsible for a lot of it. If I get some cites or info from them I'll post here. |
Are they Korean? |
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jammo
Joined: 12 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| If anyone is actually curious about the subject of who invented it amongst other things I can recommend reading: The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Nismo wrote: |
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| Oh, and King Sejong didn't invent hangul - He commissioned and promulgated it. There's a big difference there. It's like saying Richard Nixon was the first man to walk on the moon. |
That's what I'd always been told, but some academics I know tell me current research actually seems to show Sejong was personally responsible for a lot of it. If I get some cites or info from them I'll post here. |
Are they Korean? |
No |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| jammo wrote: |
| If anyone is actually curious about the subject of who invented it amongst other things I can recommend reading: The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure |
Agreed. It includes the following, fwiw, after quoting the earliest known reference ("This month, His Highness personally created the twenty-eight letters of the Vernacular Script"):
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| It is easy to imagine that it might have been customary at the time to ascribe all accomplishments to the king. But in fact such was not the case. Rather, of all the many accomplishments of Sejong, this is the only instance in which the Sejong sillok described the accomplishment as ch'inje (the personal creation of the king) ... it is clear that the phrase ch'inje was not a mere figure of speech. |
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