105 Learning Journal #10

[Yi guo]

At the beginning, I was really afraid that writing Korean would be too difficult for me to learn, since I never had exposed to it before. But soon I found that it is better to know the character in order to remember the Korean word. It is because that what you write in Korean is how your pronounce it. Unlike Japanese and Chinese, which have more than thousands of characters, Korean only have 24 characters in the alphabet and the composition of these produce every words in Korean. I initially found a website that contains all the consonants and vowels in the language and it also provides some tip on how to pronounce it and how to remember it. Another thing I found very useful is the youtube lesson, called “Hana hana hangul”. The video series consist of twenty lessons, through which I got a through understanding of Korean alphabet, Hangul. The video not only provide helpful tricks for memorization, but also correct stroke order and proper usage in the common Korean words. It provide me a start reading and writing Korean. Though it is not a purpose for me to read in Korean, I found that I could understand some simple sentence and get the meaning of it by reading it out loud.