I think that knowing a language’s history is helpful in learning the language. Because learning Korean, I first researched a bit about the language’s history. Because the Korean alphabet came to be, the Korean use to use Chinese characters. King Sejong invented and published the Korean alphabet (used now) in 1446. However, it became the primary Korean script after Korea’s independence from Japan.
Understanding and knowing a language’s history was especially helpful because I was able to see the root of each characters and the root word/character it could have been derived from. And, I am able to understand the reason why Korean characters/words are structured the way they are.
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