Reading Korean is really hard for me. I could see that different radicals compose words, but there are numerous different combinations so they have a lot variety and different meanings. Also, when I was learning Korean from online resources, most of them have romanization marked aside, so my first reaction was to read the romantization, which is very similar to Pinyin in Chinese. I did not have time to learn the whole alphabet system, so I chose to learn several really important vocabularies such as family members and my name.
Surprisingly, writing is a lot easier. When I was drawing the family tree and marked the name of family members, I found myself writing Korean characters quickly and smoothly. Maybe the reason is that the construction of Korean characters is similar to construction of Chinese characters. For example, they all have rectangles, horizontal lines and vertical lines.
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