Okay. All right. So now, Cléa, you will look at the alphabet, the pronunciation, et cetera.
So what can you tell us about the Korean alphabet, Cléa?
So Korean alphabet, the angle is actually really easy. I think everyone can learn it in two weeks. And after that, you can read it or write it. Maybe it’s difficult at first, but after that, you can read it. When you see it at first, you’re like, oh my God, it don’t give anything to me. It don’t appear like something obvious. But at first, that’s normal. But after that, you will see that it’s really easy. But yeah, at first, it’s difficult. Yeah. And so there are some, so there are 14 consonants and 10 vowels. And so, yeah, it’s, Korean alphabet is not like us with the A, B, C, D, E, and G, it’s not the letters. It’s about the way that you will say a word. Like when you say, like the E is like a tree like this. So it’s because your mouth, they say E. So it’s really, it’s not like us. So can you give us some examples of, I don’t know, can you, can you, can you list the letters of the alphabet? Can you say the Korean alphabet? Like in English, we go A, B, C, D, E. I don’t think there’s really like, it’s like, just as I said, it’s not really a real alphabet like us. So, but the day of the presentation, I think I will have a, something to show because I think like that is too obvious for people. I can make a slide or something.
So when you say it is relatively easy to learn the alphabet, it takes about two weeks, you said. How do you actually, or how did you learn the alphabet? What methods did you use?
So my Korean teacher gave me a, some, some copy about, about, oh, yeah, a piece of paper with Korean alphabets. And so you just have to learn it by heart. That’s the, I think at first is what you have to do because that’s the only way for learning at first, I think for the first step, steps. And so, and after that, after knowing the basic letters in Korean, so I learned everything that I saw in the street, like because writing with Angel in the metro is writing in Hangul. So I try to read it. And after that, you, you, you improve like so, so fast. So the advantage for you was that you could sit at home and learn the alphabet and learn the characters, but you could learn to recognize the characters when you went out and saw the characters.
And how did you feel when you could recognize the characters in the street? You have learned them?
Right now I’m asking myself like, oh, oh, when I came first, oh, can I, oh, I couldn’t, no, who, who can, who I didn’t like, so the, the letters I first, so because now when I see a word it’s like with, with the R alphabet, like it’s automatically, but because it’s really easy. I know that at first I was like, well, but how they, they read it, like I didn’t understand, but now I, I didn’t remember and understand how can I, who when my, who when I, I didn’t learn it, so who I understood some things and who, yeah, it’s weird.
Sorry? Did it make you feel more confident and better when you recognize the, the letters and the words and, and, yeah. Okay. All right. So the other problem of course is the pronunciation. Yeah. Yeah. Now, how did you learn to pronounce the, the Korean language and how difficult was it for you to learn the pronunciation?
At first, I’m better to speak in Korean than writing or reading Korean because writing Korean is really hard to know how to formulate the great grammar. So, so yeah, I did so many, I do so many, many of grammar mistakes. So I prefer speaking and for the pronunciation is not that hard, but some of their word look alike, like there are really similar. But they’re really similar to each other. So sometimes when they speak, I understand another word. And so I’m like, Oh, you were saying that, or what’s the word. So yeah it’s really similar. So when they speak, they don’t have really much vocabulary. Like they don’t have, they don’t have many subject or pronouns yet, but I think pronunciation is the easiest thing to, to, to do when you learn Korean. And I think I improve my pronunciation by looking forward to Korean, not work, looking at Koreans when they speak or to my friends, like, oh, to say this word and by watching TV shows or K-dramas.
Okay. I think everybody in the West has the same problem that the writing is so different to the Latin alphabet.
One, I have so many in my French high school of Seoul. I have so many of my co-workers, like of my friends who are mixed, like they’re all Korean, as American or all Korean or French. And so they can speak in Korean, of course, because their mom or their dad are Korean, but when they have to write it, they don’t know how to write it. So yeah, is the, the proof that Korean language to write is harder than speaking.I need to write it.
Sorry?
Learning to write Korean.
Yes. Yes. Yeah. And so is it like learning the alphabet? You simply have to write the characters and practice and practice and practice, or is it easier? I just, yeah, I think the first response, like you just have to, to know it by heart.
And after that, like looking at the logic, like how to write it and how to make it in a, it’s like in a cube, like you make a letter, so yeah.
So when you, when it comes to, when it comes to the, to the basics, what was for you and what still is for you, the most difficult part of learning Korean?
Writing it and learning it and reading it.
That is the most difficult, yeah?
Yes.
Fair enough. Okay. So I will stop here and stop the recording.
Okay. All right. So now, Cléa, you will look at the alphabet, the pronunciation, et cetera.
So what can you tell us about the Korean alphabet, Cléa?
So Korean alphabet, the angle is actually really easy. I think everyone can learn it in two weeks. And after that, you can read it or write it. Maybe it’s difficult at first, but after that, you can read it. When you see it at first, you’re like, oh my God, it don’t give anything to me. It don’t appear like something obvious. But at first, that’s normal. But after that, you will see that it’s really easy. But yeah, at first, it’s difficult. Yeah. And so there are some, so there are 14 consonants and 10 vowels. And so, yeah, it’s, Korean alphabet is not like us with the A, B, C, D, E, and G, it’s not the letters. It’s about the way that you will say a word. Like when you say, like the E is like a tree like this. So it’s because your mouth, they say E. So it’s really, it’s not like us. So can you give us some examples of, I don’t know, can you, can you, can you list the letters of the alphabet? Can you say the Korean alphabet? Like in English, we go A, B, C, D, E. I don’t think there’s really like, it’s like, just as I said, it’s not really a real alphabet like us. So, but the day of the presentation, I think I will have a, something to show because I think like that is too obvious for people. I can make a slide or something.
So when you say it is relatively easy to learn the alphabet, it takes about two weeks, you said. How do you actually, or how did you learn the alphabet? What methods did you use?
So my Korean teacher gave me a, some, some copy about, about, oh, yeah, a piece of paper with Korean alphabets. And so you just have to learn it by heart. That’s the, I think at first is what you have to do because that’s the only way for learning at first, I think for the first step, steps. And so, and after that, after knowing the basic letters in Korean, so I learned everything that I saw in the street, like because writing with Angel in the metro is writing in Hangul. So I try to read it. And after that, you, you, you improve like so, so fast. So the advantage for you was that you could sit at home and learn the alphabet and learn the characters, but you could learn to recognize the characters when you went out and saw the characters.
And how did you feel when you could recognize the characters in the street? You have learned them?
Right now I’m asking myself like, oh, oh, when I came first, oh, can I, oh, I couldn’t, no, who, who can, who I didn’t like, so the, the letters I first, so because now when I see a word it’s like with, with the R alphabet, like it’s automatically, but because it’s really easy. I know that at first I was like, well, but how they, they read it, like I didn’t understand, but now I, I didn’t remember and understand how can I, who when my, who when I, I didn’t learn it, so who I understood some things and who, yeah, it’s weird.
Sorry? Did it make you feel more confident and better when you recognize the, the letters and the words and, and, yeah. Okay. All right. So the other problem of course is the pronunciation. Yeah. Yeah. Now, how did you learn to pronounce the, the Korean language and how difficult was it for you to learn the pronunciation?
At first, I’m better to speak in Korean than writing or reading Korean because writing Korean is really hard to know how to formulate the great grammar. So, so yeah, I did so many, I do so many, many of grammar mistakes. So I prefer speaking and for the pronunciation is not that hard, but some of their word look alike, like there are really similar. But they’re really similar to each other. So sometimes when they speak, I understand another word. And so I’m like, Oh, you were saying that, or what’s the word. So yeah it’s really similar. So when they speak, they don’t have really much vocabulary. Like they don’t have, they don’t have many subject or pronouns yet, but I think pronunciation is the easiest thing to, to, to do when you learn Korean. And I think I improve my pronunciation by looking forward to Korean, not work, looking at Koreans when they speak or to my friends, like, oh, to say this word and by watching TV shows or K-dramas.
Okay. I think everybody in the West has the same problem that the writing is so different to the Latin alphabet.
One, I have so many in my French high school of Seoul. I have so many of my co-workers, like of my friends who are mixed, like they’re all Korean, as American or all Korean or French. And so they can speak in Korean, of course, because their mom or their dad are Korean, but when they have to write it, they don’t know how to write it. So yeah, is the, the proof that Korean language to write is harder than speaking.I need to write it.
Sorry?
Learning to write Korean.
Yes. Yes. Yeah. And so is it like learning the alphabet? You simply have to write the characters and practice and practice and practice, or is it easier? I just, yeah, I think the first response, like you just have to, to know it by heart.
And after that, like looking at the logic, like how to write it and how to make it in a, it’s like in a cube, like you make a letter, so yeah.
So when you, when it comes to, when it comes to the, to the basics, what was for you and what still is for you, the most difficult part of learning Korean?
Writing it and learning it and reading it.
That is the most difficult, yeah?
Yes.
Fair enough. Okay. So I will stop here and stop the recording.
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