Do Koreans ever use romanization?

Question

Do Koreans ever use romanization?

Answer 1

Well, we use hangul for everything, even some words from other countries.



But we do have romanization for the foreigners who live or visit here for subway or some maps. But normally, we always use hangul.



Reading and writing hangul is not difficult. Starting out is a little difficult, but with practice hangul is much easier. That difficulty shouldn’t be any argument against trying it at all. Furthermore, it's easier to read Korean than to speak or listen to the language.



Well, I don't have any problem w/ hangul since I'm Korean. But initially, it was difficult for me to write and pronounce English well.



Good luck.

Answer 2

almost of korean don't use romanization and of course we don't learn that.



Many koreans can write just only thier name or thier family name... because we don't use Romanization except when we write our own name in English so we don't have to learn this..



We just write that following we said, so it is not exactly correct..



yes.. Actually well known Korean Romanization as you know is not correct compared to real korean sound..





Example... one of the famous korean family name is "Park"



But in korea, 'Park' is not sounded like that... Real sound is 'Bark'



but we never don't use this... because In U.S 'bark' sound is heard that dog's sound... you know..





If you want to study korean language you shoudn't study korean base on Romanization.





It's too much different to real korean language sound.

Answer 3

Roman To Hangul

Answer 4

These days you can learn how to speak Korean over the internet. Check out this online course, it's voted as the best Korean online course of all time: http://www.rocketlearner.com/korean The course is very easy to follow, I was able to learn Korean in just 3 months.



I live in New York City, I wanted to go to a Korean language teacher but that would have cost me over $800 per month. Good thing with this internet, $800 it's a lot of money for me.

Answer 5

It's all Korean. You can learn in school, or on your own. And you can just say Korean (not really Hangul). My husband and I speak Korean and I've never heard it said Hangul, other than in history texts.

Answer 6

sometimes, if the person doesn't have the Korean alphabet on their computer, but if their writing it by hand they don't romanize.

The only way you will ever be fluent in Korean is if u were surrounded by it, as in living in Korea for awhile, you can try learning how to write in Korean by taking a language class, but it will be difficult seeing as how the Korean language, they say everything the opposite way of how English speaking people would say. So its a hard to get use to.

Answer 7

Best way is to go to Korean and live there for a while. Immersion is the best way and learn everything, not just the language but the culture because their words and phrases are tied in with the culture. Writing korean is easy when you learn the speak it first after all you have to sound out the words just like english.

Answer 8

I've seen it used on quite a few game servers I've played on... I think that was because the game didn't support the Korean alphabet.

Answer 9

most of student use roman,im only 4 mnths in busan but all my friend use roman

Answer 10

I've learned reading and writing in Korean by myself.

I just printed out a copy of korean alphabets,

familiarized myself on how these characters should be put together (through a sample of korean sentences/paragraph etc) ,

learned how to pronounce each character -through the internet, and singing and listening to korean songs also helped me (with a copy of romanized lyrics actually) so more words to try writing in korean. .and also watching korean dramas/shows.

actually the romanization isn't really the same when it's in korean. example: we say Lee, but in korean it's "ee". and they write the way they say the word. r and l, ..b, p and m, they could be confusing (to me.) 'coz (i think) they mix up.lol. especially the "r and l" sound..and in english it couldn't be like that.

i just practiced and practiced . there were times i did learn it in school- yeah when bored at class, i scribble some things in korean.

It's just motivation for me. It started in me when i was hooked on Kpop back since 2008, then i tried copying the names of my favorite singers in their korean characters.and then it lead me to studying korean language. lol that motivated me enough. it can't be that hard if you're enjoying it.