Korean Alphabet Script. Hangul Hanja History and Origin

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Education

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• Korean
• Alphabet
• Script.
• Hangul
• Hanja
• History
• and
• Origin

[hasmenn1]

It is necessary to learn hanja(漢字) besides strengthening the national language 한국어 (韓文）. My school teaches hanja two hours per week and I find that hanja is more interesting than English-

If we look into our history, almost all literacy works are written in hanja. So we have to regard learning hanja as learning our root, not learning mandarin (even it is getting important) , just like Japanese do.

[ItzMeNeng]

your explaination is so clear, now i know the letters that related to each other...thank you for teaching us.

[JanuaryBlack1996]

i heard there is some african tribe somewhere that uses hangul for their writing. i forgot which one, but i thought that was pretty inturesting.

[SeventhSun]

@hasmenn1

Just learn the Chinese characters in writing would do. In your ancient texts they were written just in the same way that the Chinese would perfectly understand, which is the same as the case with the Japanese ones.

[pakorman]

this is awesome video. wow

[brothersister1234]

oh your explanation is very clear and your English is really good!

[MasterTonberryV1]

And I thought Korea has decided to make an amendment to abolish hanja since the second world war has ended.

Since there was no hanja, hangeul eventually became only consistent, phonetically and lost its original definitions/meanings. Hence, all those that you are about to learn are just syllables combined from vowels/consonants.

That's why most civilians are illiterate on reading obsolete scripts pre-1947. The history is China's and Korea just only borrowed the hanzi, and then abolished it!

[Enigmatism415]

@hasmenn1

I agree, and furthermore, I believe the Korean written language could benefit from using mixed-script (Hanja for Sino-Korean words, Hangeul for everything else) in printed documents (but optional for handwriting). This would be convenient because it is much easier to recognize Chinese characters than it is to write them from memory, and when typing, the computer constructs the characters automatically. Reading with Hanja would also remove ambiguity (homophones), and expedite reading.

[marshmellowzebra]

really good and helpful video!

[ShaddyLee]

can any 1 tell me purpose of korean learn hanja ???

[migencluz]

@Ooilei OK I am quite busy for this. studying algebra for year 10, but here, what i understand about this is from Wikipedia. it says there that the korean and japanese people used chinese long before because thes still have not generated their own languages. but they started off by speaking their own, but still have the chinese writing. then a few centuries ago, they generated their own writing system as well. read it there. so please, i am busy... if i can't reply back, it means i did not visit

[Ooilei]

@migencluz Mandarin and Cantonese are bad examples because both ARE Chinese. They belong to the same langugae family and the people who speak them are the same people. Hong Kong people are Han, Mainland people are Han. No difference. Makes sense why they both write in Chinese. Just like how people in the US and UK both write in English.