Korean (LANGUAGE)

[arnisador]

How are your Korean studies going?

 

[redfang]

I started studying Korean about a year agao because my wife was working with some Koreans whom we were becoming friendly with. At first they were helping us to learn. But she no longer works there and we don't see them as often but we are still studying on our own. I'd like to get into some classes but there aren't too many of them in my city. It's an interesting language tho, easier than I thought in some ways, harder in others.

 

[abzack]

I studied Korean at Yonsei University and Ewha Womens' University. I lived in Korea for eight of the last ten years. I lived in Japan for two years before that. I found Japanese a little more difficult than Korean. Korean uses Hangul and Han-mun/Hanja (Chinese characters). As was said previously, Japanes uses Hiragana, Katagana, and Kanji (Chinese characters). However, they are both difficult to me. I have a hard time remembering Dano (words(read-vocabulary)). A quick search brought up the site below. I hope it helps. If you have any questions, maybe I can help.


http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/korean/centre/course/index.html

http://www.yonsei.ac.kr/yu/eng/

 

[celtic bhoy]

I too am learning han'gul, which I am getting great satisfaction from.

From my study material I was surprised to learn that korean is grammatically related to japanese and mongolian. Korean is thought to belong to the Altaic languages, meaning that it is also related to Tungusic and Turkish.

Grammatically korean is totally different from chinese. There is no connection between them. However, many korean words (as opposed to gammar) come from chinese, in the same way many english words come from latin.

 

[arnisador]

Interesting! I hadn't realized they were so different. See also:
http://www.e-budo.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22163