In the second we we continued the learning of Korean alphabets. We learned the alphabets by matching one alphabet with its pronunciation and writing them repeatedly. This method is indeed effective, writing them down helps us to memorize much better than only reading them. We also watched Korean talk show with English subtitles. In this episode, people from different nations (Russia, China, France and so on)talked about their experiences in Korean, most of them work in Korea and plan on staying for a long time. They talked about the phonetic differences between their mother languages and Korean. Those from Europe complained the Korean phonetic patterns were too different while some from Asia found that similarities.
In the fourth week, we are done with learning with alphabets. We start to use the consonants and vowels to write real characters. We were surprised to find that we actually can write simple character easily. It is a really rewarding experience for us after only four weeks of learning.
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