Learning Korean II

I should also mention that on the plus side, although it is tough for a native English speaker, Korean is easy!

1. An almost completely phonetic alphabet. There are some occasional exceptions to the rule, but the number of sounds is small compared to most other languages. Unfortunately there are some tonal things where a native english speaker cannot distinguish or make some sounds (example: ryeo - one syllable; and two different hard "O"s I can lip read, but not hear the difference between them!) the only downside to this simplicity is that it makes it too easy for a native speaker to speak too quickly

2. Regularity. Much fewer irregular verbs. And even those that are "irregular" only seem to differ in one extra syllable and one different vowel compared to a regular verb.

3. Some things are just amazingly efficient and easy. Some of my favorite examples: water = mool, meat = gogi so fish = moolgogi ; neck = mok , hand = son so wrist = sonmok. so easy!