All of the dreams we built up from the ground, They never believed them they just tore them down, We will rebuild them from the start, we will rebuild them from the heart... - HOOBASTANK, "From the Heart", Every Man for Himself

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Hangul (한글) Is Just Too Easy!

Because of my recent interest in K-Drama I have naturally become interested in the Korean language.

The Japanese use Kanji for writing out their words. The Koreans use Hangul to write their. ZKorea.com (a very good website that I've found about Korea) says that Hangul is technically one of the most effective languages. And it's really easy to understand! I've figured it out in about 3 days!

Hangul is a lot like English. Each symbol represents a letter (a) or a sound (ah) and when put together they make words.

Here is one example: 사랑 = Sahrang = Love.

When you want to write out the way that a Korean word sounds using English letters it's called Romanization. Here is the link to the Romanization chart on ZKorea:

http://www.zkorean.com/romanization.shtml

I find it very interesting. If there is anyone out there who knows a lot about Hangul I'd really appreciate your tips and comments.

ZB24 :-)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Sorry, but your saying "japanese use kanji" is not correct.

I took Japanes 101 and 102 just for the kicks, and have learned the following.

Kanji = Chinese Letters

Katakana = Japanese letters for writing Foreign words

Hirakana = Japanese letters for their own language.

craig said...

what is the word for dream in hangul?