The Korean Writing System is Awesome!

[yrae]

I’ve been learning Korean for about a month and the alphabet was really easy for me to learn. Now I can read it but idk what it means 😭😭

[mincat]

as a korean, i didn’t know the letters were designed to represent the way your mouth moves to pronounce it. that’s really cool. thank you for this

[deleted-something]

That one king that changed the writing system is a real one

[casuallyspelic]

This feels like the indie game dev meme where they talk about all the hidden secrets they put in the game.

[_AstaLily]

That’s so cool! As an aspiring linguist your channel is AWESOME ❤❤❤
Super underrated channel :)

[thaagirrasaurusjr]

As a korean learner who's already learnt hangeul.. I didn’t know this about the letters showing you how to pronounce them.. wow.

[aiko]

King Sejong is a superhero in language! 😮

[MamaWheelz]

This is exactly what I needed! I don't know Korean, but I did know that the official written language was designed like this so that the language would be intuitive to learn and read for all the illiterate people who already spoke Korean and I know that the current written Korean was either made by the then ruler or it was created at the then ruler's behest; I was telling my partner about this and she asked for examples, so this video is going to be super helpful for furthering that conversation. ❤

[aria]

except for the fact that they forgot to update the written words as the language changed, so now some words arent said like how theyre written

[iluvboothill]

As someone who is learning Korean, this is something i noticed and has been such a huge help in remembering words and phrases.

[quotes]

OMG IVE LOVED HANGUL FOR SO LONG ITS SO DOPE, ITS ACTUALLY WHAT GOT ME INTO LINGUISTICS

[Sscorpika]

My mom grew up speaking Korean with my grandparents but she never taught me so this gives me hope

[gjsoriano]

This is such an amazing revelation. Been trying to learn korean and this explanation gives so much meaning to how those characters mean.

[eh]

Fun fact. Hangeul is being used in indo one of the regional language's writing system because they never had a writing system to begin with. So now hangeul is being used to document the language and to teach to elementary kids

[mitsuhashii]

I was studying hangul for an hour and I opened youtube shorts and it’s this ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

This is my 3rd try learning Korean, 3rd times the charm

[quantumkat]

I agree it’s definitely so easy to learn that it can be learned before even knowing how to speak the language, I would argue that the ‘ma’ sound should look like = if it was lips together, but I guess it’s representing the ‘a’ part, either way, I love Korean, wish I had more uses for it where I live

[armyoftinymoas]

I loved learning Hangul! If learning Korean seems like too overwhelming I definitely recommend at least learning the writing system

[Rachel_Banner]

Hangeul is my FAVORITE writing system. I also really like how characters are stacked into syllables. Sejong the Great really lived up to that title

[solitarelee]

Holy hell I've been studying korean for years and I had NO IDEA. Too fucking cool!!! I love the history of hangul!

[rickandrygel]

When the ancestor of our alphabet was written, it did in fact have shapes to let you know it's sound.
A- shaped like an ox head with horns, word for ox - Aleph
B- shaped like a simple small two room tent (house), word for house - Beit
D- door shape, word - Dalet
R- head and neck, word - Resh
L- staff shape, word - Lamed
K- shoulders and arms (to represent palms of the hand, shaped more like this [ originally), word - Kaph
M- waves shape for water, word - Mem