I learned how to read Korean a few years ago while bored on summer vacation. I had been heavily invested in Korean pop culture for about half a year at that point, and decided to start learning the language on a whim so I could better understand songs and TV shows. I literally learned the alphabet in a morning, but it took me much longer to be able to accurately read Korean words because many symbols are very similar to one another. The easiest way for me to practice reading the alphabet was by learning to read my favorite singers' names, since they were already written in romanization and I could just match up the spelling of their name with the corresponding Korean letters. So if they were mentioned on a talk show, I could find their name in the on-screen captions, and if a fan held up a sign with their name during a performance, I could understand it. As I started learning Korean vocabulary, I stopped reading words letter by letter, and learned to better recognize the shape of the word, which improved my reading comprehension speed. In general, as my vocabulary base, knowledge of sentence structure, and knowledge of how Korean sounds "work" increased, I got better and better at reading Korean sentences, and now I can fluidly read Korean, even if I may not understand every word.
Writing Korean was very easy to learn, as the stroke order for Korean letters is very straightforward and logical. This actually helped me in writing Chinese, since the stroke order for Chinese characters follows the same logic--move from top to bottom and from left to right as you write. Since Korean syllables are housed in one "box," it's hard for me to write Korean quickly sometimes, since you have to know how each syllable is written before you start writing it. This is kind of hard to explain, but I'll give an example. Say we have the syllable 가 (ga) and the syllable 갈 (gal). In the latter, in order to accommodate the ㄹ at the bottom, you have to make the ㄱ and ㅏ smaller than in the first syllable. Keeping track of this while writing can be pretty difficult, but since that is the hardest part for me, it's hardly a complaint at all.
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