Hangul Learning Resources to Study the Korean Alphabet
The Hangul learning pages on Fae’s Journal are fairly basic. There are countless resources on the Internet dedicated to the study of Korean language learning. This site is not a dedicated source of language learning materials. I write about a lot of things on this site.
Collection of Resources
With that in mind, I collected some Korean language learning resources that I have used on my continuing Korean language learning journey.
I like using a variety of sites because one website isn’t enough. Grammar instruction might be clearer on one site, but vocabulary resources might be better on another. Don’t limit yourself to only one resource.
How do I even start to learn Korean?
Hangul First
First things first: Your first step toward learning Korean should be to learn the alphabet, Hangul. Luckily, the Korean alphabet is pretty easy to learn. I have several pages dedicated to learning the Korean alphabet here on Fae’s Journal. You can learn the alphabet in just a few lessons, for real!
After you’ve learned the alphabet, learn the harder stuff next: Korean grammar and Korean vocabulary building. Understanding grammar concepts, syntax, and vocabulary acquisition will take a lot of time and effort, not going to lie.
My Personal Journey
Personally, I started learning Korean with Duolingo. My learning style didn’t mesh with Duolingos. Duolingo’s approach is to show you the language and give hints as to the why of things, but you learn through context and artificial immersion. For what it’s worth, that’s usually a good approach. But for me, Duolingo lessons didn’t explain Korean grammar enough for me to understand what I was doing. How you like to learn a language plays a part of what site and method will help the most. I like understanding the grammar concepts, to deeply study the why of sentence structure and verb conjugations before diving in and practicing them.
HowToStudyKorean.com has helped me the MOST. The grammar lessons are very helpful to understand the complex and different grammar that Korean has, and they have Memrise study sets for each unit. What’s more, you can purchase the exercises for various Units for a very reasonable fee.
I found them to be helpful. So here’s my plug for them. Unfortunately, I have not been keeping up with my language learning journey, but when I was trying, How to Study Korean helped me tremendously.
Hanja
One more note: Many Korean words have Chinese origins. So it’s helpful to learn some basic Hanja characters. Written mediums often substitute these Hanja characters so they are helpful to know. I SUCK at Hanja but everything that you study can help you in your journey to becoming proficient in learning Korean.
HowtoStudyKorean.com
Learn Hangul
Pronouncing the Hangul Consonants
Keyboards:
Hangul Keyboard
Korean Keyboard
