105 Learning Journal # 10

[Melody (Mengdong) Zhuang]

My experience of trying to read and write in Korea has been very fun. Korean characters are easy to write, comparing to Chinese. Korean characters are like simple drawings, consisting of horizontal and vertical lines, circles, and squares. Korean characters can be pronounced once we memorized twenty four Korean alphabets. However, even though I am able to pronounce some characters by applying the alphabet rules, it is difficult to understand the meaning of each Korean word. Thus, to be able to actually understand what each word means in Korean, I need to memorize the meaning of the word, not only the pronunciation.