Learn Korean in 15 minutes - IDN Forums

jose · #1 (**permalink**) 3rd January 2013, 03:34 AM

domainguru · #2 (**permalink**) 3rd January 2013, 05:32 AM

Excellent stuff. Its true as well. Korean is a very easy language to learn to read. My daughter can read Korean well, though only knows what 10% of the words actually mean!

blastfromthepast · #3 (**permalink**) 3rd January 2013, 07:35 AM

Korean is difficult not because of the simple writing system, but because they got rid of Chinese characters due to nationalism. Unfortunately, this nationalism came too late, and a huge portion of Korean vocabulary is actually Classical Chinese words. According to the wikipedia page on Korean Language, 65% of all Korean words are actually borrowed from Chinese. Since Korean doesn't have tones like Chinese, all these words which were taken from Chinese sound alike. It is not uncommon for a single Hangul cluster to map to a dozen or more Chinese characters or what are essentially words in Korean. The other way around is confusing too: many Chinese characters also have several ways to read them in Korean, which adds to the confusion.

andre · #4 (**permalink**) 4th January 2013, 09:24 AM

Excellent graphic

Coincidentally, a couple of days ago, I wrote a brief blog article on a relationship between Unicode Hangul Syllables and the OSX GongjinCheong Romaja Input Method http://schappo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/0...nd-hangul.html

André 小山 Schappo