Context: Sejong the Great of Korea, created the Korean alphabet (mostly) by himself. This replaced the earlier use of the Chinese alphabet.

  • PugJesus@piefed.socialM
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    21 days ago

    I remember a friend learning Hangul extremely quickly. Since it’s ‘constructed’ rather than developed ad hoc, it’s supposed to be very intuitive.

    Me, I’m lucky I remember that Latin alphabet.

    • humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works
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      20 days ago

      I learned to read Hangul in less than 6 months. Living in Korea helped with infinite building signage to practice with. I have almost no vocabulary or grammer. But the pronunciation was on point. Could read anyword. E: and I’m an idiot. So yes very intuitively.