Week 1- 2/19
This is my first Korean class with Seonghye 씨. At the beginning, she introduced what is Hangul and what is Hanja. Hangul is the main writing system of Korea and there are 24 unique symbols combine together to make all kinds of Hangul combination. In this class, we learnt five consonants including ㄱ, ,ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄹ, ㅁ and five vowels including ㅐ, ㅏ, ㅓ, ㅗ, ㅜ. Then we came to how to use consonants and vowels to create simple hangul and the writing order and orientation of Hangul. After the first class, I can read and write simple characters that are only composed of these five consonants and five vowels, such as 개 (dog), 다 (all), 누구 (who), 모두(everyone). We can see that ten basic symbols can already combines into many frequently-used words.
Week2- 2/26
This week, we are keep learning new Hangul including five more consonants: ㅂ, ㅈ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅊ and five more vowels:ㅡ, ㅣ, ㅔ, ㅠ, ㅛ. Since some of the pronunciation are similar or even same, Seonghye teached me the different sounds of ㅅ, the difference between ㅔand ㅐ, and the difference between ㅜ and ㅡ. As we have already learned 20 symbols, I can read a lot of words and write them following the instruction. One thing I found really interesting is that some Korean words is just translated from Chinese or English. Take the word 주스 for example, it means juice and the pronunciation is " jyuseu" which almost same as juice.
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