Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Learn to Read Korean


       I've incidentally found a good source to learn Korean language. The lesson is in pictures (in a comic style), so it is quite easy to read and understand. There are also easy tricks for you to memorize Korean sounds, consonants and sounds. Here are some examples of the comic that teaches you how to read Korean in 15 minutes.




     
       This comic has been posted without any attribution or linking to the source. The cartoonist is Ryan Estrada and he posted it here: http://ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com/post/20461267965.
     I’ve been wondering why a good comic like this has not been contributed and published. As you might have seen before that the pictual language books are generally teach the vocabs or the useful sentences in each languages, not the tricks to read and memorize the alphabets. When we learn other languages that we are not familiar with, we have to remember the alphabets and how to pronounce them in each word. Therefore, most people whom learn other languages usually pronounce the wrong sounds and lead to the misinterpretation. I think it is a good idea to have many basic language learning books like this one. It might good for us to learn languages and feel like playing legos with vowels and consonants. However, we have to practice what we’ve learned unless we will forget everything within a year or two.