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The Korean script is fantastic, yes, one of the few designed to effectively promote popular literacy. But you're only going to learn to read Korean in 15 minute

The Korean script is fantastic, yes, one of the few designed to effectively promote popular literacy. But you're only going to learn to read Korean in 15 minutes if you already speak Korean ;) Otherwise, you'll have to learn to speak Korean (at least, learn the phonology of Korean) as you learn to read it, which will take more than 15 minutes.

digitalsushi 11y ago
This was still a fantastic little primer - in the tech field, I think we all know a few people that know katakana and hiragana well enough to impress their friends by mentally sounding out an english cognate - "hey friends, this is a pharmacy up here" - the first 1% looks like magic to the rest of us.
- Glide 11y ago
  Well... Taking Japanese in high school will do that to you. Hiragana and katakana are the first things you go over and it took a good part of the first year. Korean is simpler by far. Just a couple weekends of looking at the rules and what they do. My problem is that I can't actually form the sounds in my head fast enough in order to know what the words mean.
NoMoreNicksLeft 11y ago
I know how to sound out Cyrillic. I know very little Russian... usually not enough to tell if the language is Russian or some other Slavic language. But I can still read. You see cognates every 10 or 15 words. I read this link for 10 minutes, and I was wondering why it was spelled "golrum" since the Rattlesnake makes an R sound at the beginning of a triplet. Shouldn't he have used the empty "O" character on the second one? Wish I could find something like this for Greek.
bluesmoon 11y ago
Not entirely true. I learnt to read Korean before visiting South Korea. I don't understand a word (ok, actually I understand about 7 words in Korean and can count), but it really helps when reading street signs because you just need to look for directions to the nearest Palace and then find that on your map.

digitalsushi 11y ago

This was still a fantastic little primer - in the tech field, I think we all know a few people that know katakana and hiragana well enough to impress their friends by mentally sounding out an english cognate - "hey friends, this is a pharmacy up here" - the first 1% looks like magic to the rest of us.

Glide 11y ago
Well... Taking Japanese in high school will do that to you. Hiragana and katakana are the first things you go over and it took a good part of the first year. Korean is simpler by far. Just a couple weekends of looking at the rules and what they do. My problem is that I can't actually form the sounds in my head fast enough in order to know what the words mean.

NoMoreNicksLeft 11y ago

I know how to sound out Cyrillic. I know very little Russian... usually not enough to tell if the language is Russian or some other Slavic language. But I can still read. You see cognates every 10 or 15 words. I read this link for 10 minutes, and I was wondering why it was spelled "golrum" since the Rattlesnake makes an R sound at the beginning of a triplet. Shouldn't he have used the empty "O" character on the second one? Wish I could find something like this for Greek.

bluesmoon 11y ago

Not entirely true. I learnt to read Korean before visiting South Korea. I don't understand a word (ok, actually I understand about 7 words in Korean and can count), but it really helps when reading street signs because you just need to look for directions to the nearest Palace and then find that on your map.