Hello! Your blog look great! Hey, I started to learn Korean like... The day before yesterday and I would like some advises for beginners. My goal first is to learn the vowels and alphabet, but idk why this had been complicated for me to learn /: Yes, they have more vowels than us and maybe that's my problem, trying to know which character is the vowel "A" and so on...
Hi, thank you! I’m glad you like the blog, and thanks for the ask!I’ll do my best to explain what I had to do to learn 한글 (hangul), and I’ll link you to some videos and websites that I used as well!
CONGRATULATIONS ON STARTING KOREAN!!
Starting anything is always the hardest part in my opinion, but don’t worry, you WILL get the hang of it! Hangul can seem intimidating or confusing at first, but if you use the right resources, it becomes easier.
I want to make this clear though: the vast majority of resources for learning Korean are made in English. This means that if you’re a native speaker of any other language, it’s not always easy to relate to the explanations of the sounds. For instance, ㅏ is often described as sounding like the ‘a’ in ‘father’. This is not necessarily a helpful description for someone who doesn’t speak English as their first language.
BUT! These descriptions are unreliable for English speakers too, because of the enormous variety of accents and dialects in English. The word ‘father’ does not sound exactly the same to a British English speaker and an American English speaker.
For me, the best way to learn Hangul was to completely ignore any romanizations of it at all, and simply learn to correlate each letter to its sound.
It’s not as difficult as it sounds.
I’ve mentioned on this blog before, I have ADD, and sometimes it takes me FOREVER to learn something, because it’s difficult for me to focus. It’s even more difficult for me to learn something that I can’t grasp straight away, because I get very anxious about it. But I still managed to learn 한글 and you can do it too! Don’t worry if it takes you some time, so long as you don’t give up, anything is okay.
I did say I’d share what I had used to learn 한글, and I will, but I will also share some extra videos and links that I think might be useful to you!
Korean alphabet & reading 한국어 자음, 모음, 읽기 by seemile.com
Hana Hana Hangul by KoreanClass101.com
Learn Korean(Hangul, Hangeul) Lesson 1 : Korean Alphabet by Hyungseok Song
Hangeul Master book by Talk To Me In Korean
Eggbun Korean App (iOS & Android)
Learn Hangul - Start here! by GO! Billy Korean
Hangul - Learn the Korean Alphabet in 30 Minutes! by EASY KOREAN
These two videos from Korean Unnie: (Video1) (Video2)
This website for learning stroke order! (you can download practice sheets from here too)
This website for learning the sounds! (hover over the characters to hear the sounds)
I hope this was helpful! Please keep going with your Korean learning! It gets easier and a lot more fun after a while (but sometimes it will get harder again). Perseverance is key when we want to achieve something!
Good luck, and thank you again for the ask!
