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Thanks to Tab A that leads me to start learning Korean.
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Spent about a month to get used to the writings, ie the alphabets.
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Same as the other foreign languages I studied before, spellings and pronunciations are basic lessons.
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As far as I understand, Korean is partly spelling, partly Chinese characters.
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Find that quite a lots of words sound like Chinese, some kind of dialect. Carefully listen to them on the hand can distinguish it by its Chinese origins and transformation.
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This book just fipped through, researched the transformation subjects of Korean. Some papers tell the historical findings of the development of Korean language, others are real difficult to understand in the way that the linguistic theories the researchers based to study Korean.Most of them were Westerners.
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Perhaps should point out that it was serious mistake to compare Korean with Western languages. One should first learn some history of both Chinese Korea history and Chinese basic language, in order to go deeper to research Korean. I would say , boldly, this language would not be too difficult to pick up, for me.
8.Back to this book "the Korean Language", the last several chapters are especially hard for beginners. I kind of dislike when explaining grammars, only romantized pronunciation are used , without any Korean alphabets. And mind that at the age of the authors of this book, the comparable international phonetic was a little different from today's. Quite confusing.
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Anyway, this my first lessons. It us enough to have an overall view of an unknown language.
- And from the same Library, I checked out another book, also introductory, may be helpful at least on basic grammars.I will continue with that one.
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Korean New Learner
1 item | Last modified May 18, 2016Having basic knowledge of the alphabets is not enough to go on. So a basic grammar book is a must. Check out a deal reading another book about the history and development of the language. It is quite to my goûte for I am Chinese. Very helpful. Now, check my out the second book about grammar, though quite classic, 1914 ed. by Japanese researcher, may be close enough to after war re-organization of the language. There is the grammar part too.
Review: after finished going through the first book, briefly on subjects more helpful to the understanding of Korean language; I found the historical development of the language is important but lacks the more directly related sino-kuguryu interactions; such as wars, battles, immigrants, exile movements, colonization etc, subjects like these! Some pieces of losing research facts are: Sung dynasty inventions of papers plus printing ; it's immigration from central china; chinese and hence inclusive locales' literatures modes and changes; these may be some others I think explain and can give more insights into the causes and short/long terms development of the language. See that I quite like Sung poems, proesies. They bear very magical rythmes, kind of aesthetical! And this much for the first reading!
