I love reading and writing in Hangeul! Actually, in my earlier posts, I mentioned that I thought I’d focus on speaking the most for the sake of time, but then I realized that learning Hangeul was essential for my pronunciation too. And so, I learned to read and write in Hangeul and enjoyed it because it made my lessons a lot more holistic. After learning Hangeul, I was able to pronounce unfamiliar Korean words, and I got excited because that was one of my learning goals! The sound change rules are still a bit tricky though when I try to write the characters just based on pronunciation, so I think I’ll just have to memorize the characters that involve sound changes. If you haven’t noticed already from my older posts, I really advocate holistic learning so I appreciate that my KMS book includes audio with its lessons. Overall, I really like writing and reading in Hangeul because I think it helps me learn the word pronunciation more accurately. I guess I could just romanize the words if I were only learning to speak, but I feel like that would open too much room for pronunciation error that would accumulate overtime, which wouldn’t be productive. So, I decided to start from square one.
It took a surprisingly short amount of time, maybe a couple hours, to learn the Hangeul alphabet. The KMS book was designed so that I had to learn Hangeul before doing the lessons (because they were all written in Hangeul with no romanization), so I had no choice if I were going to follow the book. But now I’m thankful for knowing Hangeul, because it has definitely helped with my language study throughout.
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