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How much time did it take you to read Hangul fluently?
Many say it took them one or two days. I am feeling a little stupid here, since it took me weeks. Maybe I am too old. To be exact it took me a few days to remember the symbols, but then I could not read them fluently. With me it went like, ...
Okay that was an h, that was an o, no, no it's an a, that is an n, and another a.. Hana!
Only after weeks I could 'read fluently', like with latin letters. This is also why I hated (sorry for the strong word) the romanization. Because you can read latin letters faster, your eye is being drawn to the romanization automatically. But since the romanization is based on English, it only confused me. My example in this is jeo, 저. If you read it as a Dutchman, jeo says 'jeah-ooh' in English. Or in Hangul 예오, not 저. So I firmly lined through all the English based romazation in my course material.
But really, you cannot seriously state you learned to read Hangul in a day? Or am I just slow and not very talented?
Okay that was an h, that was an o, no, no it's an a, that is an n, and another a.. Hana!
Only after weeks I could 'read fluently', like with latin letters. This is also why I hated (sorry for the strong word) the romanization. Because you can read latin letters faster, your eye is being drawn to the romanization automatically. But since the romanization is based on English, it only confused me. My example in this is jeo, 저. If you read it as a Dutchman, jeo says 'jeah-ooh' in English. Or in Hangul 예오, not 저. So I firmly lined through all the English based romazation in my course material.
But really, you cannot seriously state you learned to read Hangul in a day? Or am I just slow and not very talented?
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I think it depends on learning styles. One can just sit and stare at characters for weeks and slowly learn, or one can practice through writing and reading to learn faster. it took me about a week or two in a class situation, but I learnt Japanese characters faster through an app which tested your reading skills through a timer ^^
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