Korean Job Discussion Forums

[billybrobby]

Does anybody know a website that teaches Korean handwriting? Whenever I handwrite in Korean it looks so ugly and different from Koreans' writing. I'm not talking about learning the Korean alaphabet. I'm talking about how to write Korean characters with a pen e.g. stroke order and all that. Also, those time saving tricks like how to write 를 quickly and stuff.

[HapKi]

And numbers, too. Is it just Koreans, or do other countries write their 9's like P's?

[billybrobby]

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Language/korean.cfm?Subject=writing

Oh, I found it. that's pretty much what I wanted. but still there are some tricks to write 는 and 를 faster or something, right?

[Gwangjuboy]

I've always wanted to know this. I know the correct letter orders but there are certainly some tricks to writing ㄹ faster in combination with other letters.

[HapKi]

ㄹ = z

And another one,
If you're writing 구 , the down part of ㄱ can be the down part of ㅜ. My wife showed me some others, but they're too mind-blowing. I guess it comes from experience and years of writing. English cursive confuses her, as well.

[Gwangjuboy]

[billybrobby]

After an hour of practice my Korean has stopped looking like tetris blocks and looks way more natural. but now I can't read it.

the way they recommend writing ㄹ is just crazy. it's the way you would write 근.

like gwangju boy was saying, ㅍ can be done in 3 strokes, and i think ㄹ and ㅁ can be done in 2.

the next korean person i meet is gonna be unlucky enough to have to explain this all to me.

[ChopChaeJoe]

I've got a book called Step by Step, Korean penmenship that looks promising. comes with a tape. But I only used it one day. I should really get back to work on that book.

[Novernae]

You can just watch your students make our letters... It's so hard to break them of the top down thing and great big long line over the i... it's a DOT damnit!

[Hater Depot]

Most people do ㅁ in two strokes as well.

Personally the writing of 칠 in 칠성사이다 freaks me out. It just looks like a big thunderbolt.

[Gwangjuboy]

The ㅁ is often done with a l followed by something that is a cross between a 7 and a ㄱ. I've just been trying the ㅍ and it works well if you do a ㄲ with a line underneath.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[ChopChaeJoe]

There is a Chinese numbering system that koreans sometimes use. i on't know how much, though. Several times I have been iven a list of numbers (i.e. a phone number) and I'll put it in my pocket after a glance. later when I go to retrieve the number, I realize that I can't figure out several of the numbers.

[dogbert]

Any bookstores will have (Korean) handwriting practice books you can buy for about 4000 won.