I think writing practice is necessary from the very beginning of learning a language. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are necessary for language learning. If you just look with your eyes, you might be able to recall it in a short time, but the letters or words in the target language won't stick in your memory.Chinese typing is input pinyin and computer will show the corresponding Chinese, sometimes even think out your next possible input words. Therefore, for the young people of my generation, they often chat with mobile phone software and do homework on the computer. When they occasionally need handwritten words, they often forget how to write the words they want to write. Similarly, in English, my mobile phone and computer often associate the corresponding words after I input a few letters, so I sometimes can't remember how to spell or even spell the wrong words when I write my homework by hand. Another reason is that there is an old Chinese saying that "the character is like the person", which means that a person's character can be known by his or her words. The words written by a person with good temperament will also looks beautiful, which was a feast for the eyes. Many calligraphers can infer the characteristics of the person who wrote the character and the mood of creation from a single character. Therefore, when learning Korean in the future, I will choose write Korean.
Unlike Chinese and English, Korean sentences have parts in the order of subject, object, and verb. Attachment are extremely important in Korean, the attachments include the particles attached right after subjects and objects, and the suffixes for a whole sentence which are added at the end of one sentence to make a sentence sound pretty, into a question, in different tenses, or something else. Talking to elders or juniors have different suffixes, as do questions and exclamations. Although it is difficult to remember so many things at the beginning of learning, it will become very easy after you become proficient. Korean input is relatively simple, because Korean is a written sound, just remember the syllables on the keyboard, you can type in Korean.
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I always believe that writing by hand is the most important part of learning a new language. I know that Korean is a language highly related to the sound. You can pronounce almost all of the Korean words and sentences after learning the pronunciation of vowels, consonants and the rules of pronunciation. It is very simple, but when it comes to the situation of writing or typing, it is very easy to spell those Korean words wrong if you only know the sound or pronunciation of that word. The vowels or consonants might change or hide while pronouncing. One can never totally rely on memorizing those vocabulary only by its pronunciation.
I agree with you that writing longhand is a good exercise for beginners in the new language. When I write down the characters, I'm getting more familiar with them and thus will be better at reading them as well. Even for my mother language, Chinese, if I haven't written in it longhand for a while, I'll have so many characters that I don't know how to right as well.