Korean class, week 2

[nyankoframe]

I am seriously considering (re-)installing Semagic soon

Today's Korean class was really interesting, although we still haven't learnt any conversational phrases yet. ^^;; We went over the vowels and consonants we'd learnt from the previous week several times and I was really glad I had a cup of water, and then learnt some compound consonants (the "ssang-" group, as our teacher referred to them).

And then it was time to write our names in Korean! ^_^

Mine didn't turn out too bad, and chibi_nasu was actually correct with her version of it. ^^;; Some of the other names were really interesting to come up with, though...

Now let's see if my IME works

My name ended up being 다밀 (or 다밋), though 다미트 was kind of close but not really it...

Some of the other names, which I'm going to leave as an exercise for anyone who's interested, were 밐라, ㄷ다락란 유킨, 폴 and 하 시 (?). There were other names, but I didn't write them down, and it turns out I fail at writing the names I did write down, too... ^^;;;

I still need to memorize more characters... but at least now I know a few basic words (해, 아버지, 어머너, 치마), though my pronunciation is horrible. :P And I need to learn how to write characters properly. ^^;; And I still can't figure out how to type complicated vowels ^^;;;

Comments

[nakaemi.livejournal.com]

Glad it's going good. Korean seems complicated. ^^;; Maybe at your apartment you can work on the pronunciation by repeating words aloud. :p

[nyankoframe.livejournal.com]

Well, it is rather hard to memorize, but in this class we're only learning enough to have basic conversations (like "Hello", "My name is ____", "Goodbye", and so on) ^^;;;; We're not really covering reading or writing in much detail. :P

And yeah, that's one way of working on it, although in my case, I need recordings too. ^^;;;