Who among you here wants to learn Hangeul (Korean Language)?
By nicajoice
@nicajoice (188)
Philippines
September 21, 2010 2:09am CST
I worked with Koreans for more than two years, and I've come to appreciate their unique culture. I studied their language on my own and now I can read and write Korean but I can't understand it as much (not yet). But, I really want to be fluent in this language in the future. How about you? Are you interested to learn Hangeul?
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4 responses
@dayanandahs (129)
• India
21 Sep 10
i am not interested as of now, may be when i retire i will try to learn as many languages i can. As of now, i have not learnt completely the language i use currently. May be, i have to find some time and do it. Its good you are learning, keep going.
@nicajoice (188)
• Philippines
21 Sep 10
Thanks! ^_^ Yes, it would be nice to learn a lot of languages.. :)
@dayanandahs (129)
• India
21 Sep 10
hi gadhisunu, i don't know myself. completely occupied in my business. i literally don't find time for my studies.
@ratyz5 (7808)
• Philippines
21 Sep 10
I know how to read their consonants and most of their vowels. Their compound vowels are a bit confusing at times. I can slowly read but, I need to improve more on vocabulary as I only know quite a few of them. Grammar too needs to improve if ever I really want to learn the language.
Before, I came across a site wherein it had some lessons on how to read Korean characters as well as how to compose some sentences. There are lots of that in the net so, self learning is quite possible. It would be better though if we can really apply that as often as we can so, we get to retain and practice what we learned.
@nicajoice (188)
• Philippines
21 Sep 10
Yes, learning sites are helpful.. But, I think it's better to have real and natural interaction with native speakers. Sentences learned through books sometimes sound strange when spoken.. hehehe
@GADHISUNU (2162)
• India
21 Sep 10
nicajoice, you learned to read and write before you learnt to speak the language? That is surprising. Well, that is possible for a language like Tamil with with very less number opf phonemes. Is not Korean a Chnese family language that has a pictorial kind of Script? Or is the Script closer to some other family group. Like for instance people learning Japanese start to learn the language as speech rather than in writing.
@limpehsong (30)
• Singapore
18 Oct 10
I love their music groups and variety shows especially, Did some self study like you as well, Its really fun to realize that Korean is somewhat actually like English.
Its really frustrating to not understand some of the words sometimes. hmm i think we would be more efficient in learning this language if we took some lesson rather than self learning.
