Should I learn Hangul and then the Korean language, or the other way around?

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I have started to learn Korean, and at the moment I am taking all of my notes in romanised Korean with a view to learn Hangul either afterwards or at a later date.

Is this the right way to approach this or do you think I would benefit from learning Hangul and writing my notes in Hangul as well?
 
I haven't learnt Korean but done a fair bit of Japanese and I'd say learn the hangul as soon as you can. My girlfriend learnt them before and said it wasn't difficult, they're fairly logical and just phonetic so you only need learn them once, unlike kanji!

Plus you can start reading or watching (with subtitles) original source material sooner which will help your language become more natural and accurate than just book work.

EDIT: if you haven't already I'd recommend downloading anki as a flash cards system for learning sentences and vocab. I found it invaluable with the Japanese!
 
I'm assuming that Hangul is the characters which Korean is written in and if so I would recommend that you do try to learn it early on. If you are learning using English characters then you will keep making assumptions about the pronunciation of things based on the rules in English which will probably be incorrect in Korean.
 
memyselfandi said:
I'm assuming that Hangul is the characters which Korean is written in and if so I would recommend that you do try to learn it early on. If you are learning using English characters then you will keep making assumptions about the pronunciation of things based on the rules in English which will probably be incorrect in Korean.
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You are correct, Hangul is the name of the Korean charachters/aplhabet.
Thanks for the advice, I will try and tackle Hangul as soon as I have time rather than after. But my main interest is in being able to speak in Korean first off.
 
Lil old me said:
I haven't learnt Korean but done a fair bit of Japanese and I'd say learn the hangul as soon as you can. My girlfriend learnt them before and said it wasn't difficult, they're fairly logical and just phonetic so you only need learn them once, unlike kanji!

Plus you can start reading or watching (with subtitles) original source material sooner which will help your language become more natural and accurate than just book work.

EDIT: if you haven't already I'd recommend downloading anki as a flash cards system for learning sentences and vocab. I found it invaluable with the Japanese!
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Thanks for the tips :) I will also be sure to check out those flash cards you mentioned. Komapsumnida! :)
 
Dump the romanisation completely mate..

It will set you up with some bad habits and make things confusing. Only takes a day to learn hangul so you should be fine.
 
BoonMonkey said:
OPPA GANGNAM STYLE
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'Oppan Gangnam seutayil' or '오빠 강남스타일' NOT oppa Gangnam style. He is not speaking English. If you want to say it in English it translates roughly as Brother is Gangnam style (though 'oppan' can only be applied in this way in some situations, not all, the Korean language does not work in the same way as ours). It is probably interpreted as our equivelant of 'Brother, you have Gangnam style!" :p

(8) Brother you have Gangnam style, bro, bro, bro, bro, brother you have Gangnam style! (8)
 
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timebomb26 said:
Yes, it is.

Definitely learn both at the same time. In fact it's very difficult to learn them separately.
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err... I think just the one is confusing enough thanks :) I don't want to confuse my sentences and jumble Korean in with Japanese.
 
acme15 said:
err... I think just the one is confusing enough thanks :) I don't want to confuse my sentences and jumble Korean in with Japanese.
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I think he means learn the new alphabet and the language at the same time.

Japanese is the easiest language for a Westerner to learn, out of the Asian languages, afaik. Mostly because of the quite simple pronunciations of words.
 
Learn Hangul as soon as you can, it will make the language easier to assimilate and will discourage bad habits, like others have said you will find the pronunciation and construction easier. I have learned several non-latin languages and found it easier once I had some grounding in the alphabet itself.
 
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