Learn Korean

Korean is not as hard as you might think. It's not like Chinese that has no alphabet, even though to the untrained eye it may look very similar.

The letters of the Korean alphabet are actually very easy to make (as you'll see from the first course link below.)

The basic Korean alphabet consists of 24 letters - 10 vowels and 14 consonants. However, if you include the compounds, the Korean alphabet consists of 40 letters. More specifically, there are: 10 pure vowels, 11 compound vowels, 14 basic consonants, and 5 double consonants.

So after you learn Korean, you'll be able to speak with about 77 million more people than you do now. You'll be able to travel to Korea, but you'll also find sizable Korean populations in China, Japan, the United States, Canada and the regions of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Free Online Resources to Learn Korean

I loved going through the 37 lessons of the free online course to learn to read and write Korean in An Introduction to Korean, by J. David Eisenberg It has a very easy to follow format and includes audio. It includes information on the Korean Alphabet, Basic Conversational Phrases, Parts of the Body, Members of the Family, Vocabulary, Numbers, Asking for Directions and Grammar. What I loved most was the style in explaining the language - so simple and logically developed. By the time you've finished this short course, you will be able to read Korean (even if you don't know what the word means.)

After getting an Introduction to Korean above, another excellent website you'll enjoy is the free online Korean Studies at Sogang. This virtual university has seven courses: Introductory Korean, Novice Korean I, Novice Korean II, Novice Korean III, Intermediate Korean I, Intermediate Korean II, and Intermediate Korean III.

Mr. H's LearnKorean.com has audio, and provides both a basic Korean course to learn basic survival phrases, called Korean for Fun, and another one that begins looking more closely at the grammar of the Korean language, including sentence structure, called Korean Lessons, which includes: fundamental features of Korean language, the Korean alphabetic system, some phonological notes, base form and stem in a predicate, forming predicates with verbs, adjectives, and nouns, subject markers, object markers, Who? What? Where?, This 'n that, here 'n there, styles of speech, numbers general description and Chinese numbers and native Korean numbers, and locative markers.

Free Online Korean - English Dictionary

Babel Fish Translation allows you to translate from English to Korean and Korean to English. You can translate words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, even websites.

http://bluedic.com/ is mainly in Korean when you first open the website (a little intimidating if you don't know Korean). However, just type you English word in the empty white box and hit the button beside. You'll get your English word in Korean, along with other phrases that use that word.

http://dic.yahoo.co.kr is another website mainly written in Korean. Just type your English word in the first empty white box, and hit the button.

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