Korean handwriting
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008안녕하세요. Hi, 현우 here again. Today I’m posting a video of myself writing 안녕하세요 in handwriting.
Even after I learned to speak English to a certain level, I found myself unable to read what my friend wrote in letters or on their notebooks in handwriting very easily. ^^But then I think it’s probably true for most Korean learners as well, so I’m going to try to make a few more videos like this, introducing how some of the most common expressions are written in handwriting ^_^
Please enjoy!
If you can’t watch the video, please go to http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=y0mEUWSk32M
Posted by Hyunwoo in Learning Korean |
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 am
fascinating! something they never tell you in the books. I am looking forward to more videos and posts like this.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 am
Very interesting video.
Hope to see more of this actually, because handwriting style is so common yet difficult at times… way more than computer styled wittings.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 am
haha, what a great video! I was barely able to read the 3rd sentence of both you and your sister, but I do like the way the second one is written :]
Though I’m still having trouble “deciphering” the handwriting @3m06s of this video :S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9-CcVKXLEY
P.S. I’m curious
what kind of pen did you write with?
Cheers,
Carlo
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 am
yeah I hate hate hate the way a quickly written “ㅁ” looks. It throws me for a loop every time because it almost looks like “1″ with a subscript “7″ or something else entirely.
Thanks for the insightful perspective 현우!
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:59 am
Thanks for the comments everyone. 여러분 코멘트 고마워요.
Glad to know that it’s useful. I’ll make some more handwriting videos soon ^_^
도움이 된다니 기뻐요. 곧 Handwriting 비디오 더 많들게요.
And Carlo,
and it means “Now, can I hug you?”
what the man wrote on that board was “이제 당신을 안아봐도 되겠습니까?”
And about what pen I wrote with, I’ll have to get back to you on that one. I’ve misplaced it… hahaha. But I’m sure I’ll find it somewhere very soon.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Oh!!
This blog is very very useful for me
Cause when I was in Korea, I couldn’t understand many words, which wrote in Korean handwriting style that most appear on advertisements or were written by Koreans also (TT)
But I got it now!!
THANKS
November 4th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Maya!
Glad to hear that it helps!! ^_^
And Carlo, I’ve found the pen again haha. it’s called “uni-ball signo 0.5″ ^^
November 4th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Thank you for this! I like looking at people’s handwriting. ^^ For sure not something you learn in a typical textbook/classroom.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:49 am
OMG lol my mom’s handwriting is so bad when she writes korean. lol i can NEVER understand her handwriting. but when she writes in english she takes her time cuz she wants to make sure things are right lol.
when I write in korean, it doesn’t matter if i write fast or slow i’m still making it look good lol i’ll post a video soon to show how i write.
HALF KOREAN POWER!! FIGHTING!!
November 4th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
my korean handwriting is awful!!!! but i can read it.. my english handwriting is pretty awful too.. i just write really fast. haha..
this was a very interesting video! i am fascinated by handwriting…
November 4th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Hello 현우, thanks you so much for this, I’ve been waiting for ages for somebody to explain me the handwriting. Of course, more will be needed to really catch it
November 4th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Thanks! The first time I saw Korean handwriting, I wasn’t even sure it was Korean, and I could make out only one word. =D
But yeah, handwritten is awlays different from typed, and it isn’t only being familiar with the way handwriting looks, it has also something to do with how well you speak the language. I’ve usuallly got no problems reading handwritten English or Norwegian, but give me handwritten Italian, and I’m struggling. Like I tend to write a, e, i, and o the same way at the end of a word, so if you don’t know what it’s suppused to be… XD
November 5th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Nice work, Hyunwoo! This video is so out-of-the-box yet practical. I fancy myself being able to write like a Korean someday. I hope to see more of such unconventional teaching techniques from KoreanClass101.com. Keep up the good work!
November 7th, 2008 at 5:23 am
I watched this video a couple of days ago. And it reminded me of my time in Korea where I could read most of the things, except when the letters were too “curved”.
So today I was sitting in class next to my Korean friend and instead of chatting in English/French/Korean, I voluntarily used a sheet of paper to communicate with her (instead of listening to my teacher).
If you have the chance to do this too, I recommend it!
Reading hand-written is indeed a very useful skill.
Thanks for the video 현우 ^-^;;
November 9th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
This makes so much more sense to me now…I have seen handwriting like this in kmovies and kdramas and thought that there were kcharacters out there that I still had not learned.
This is so very useful. I will try to seek out hand written Korean to practice.
I especially like the break dancing video (video response –2000)… woaw…sizzlin’ hot! I really do not think gravity applies to you, man. I tried to do that and nearly broke myself!
November 11th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Thanks everybody for the comments!!!! I’ll be sure to make more of these videos ^^
November 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I had such pretty writing when I first started learning Korean… but now my Korean handwriting is starting to degenerate to the level of my English handwriting. :S
I also have trouble writing ㅎ quickly in Korean, because I find the handwritten versions of it so difficult to read, so I insist on doing a less “loopy” version of it!
November 13th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
cool! I’m always disappointed by my handwriting (looks very unnatural) and takes a lot of effort to write. but it’s cause it’s not fluid and tries too much to look like the lesson book print. thanks for the vid– more like this?
November 14th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Do you have any tips on “learning” how to write like this?
I remember in school, to learn how to write cursive (joined up letters) we would learn how each letter was formed, and then begin to learn how to join them together, usually by way of worksheets with like the word, then the word again fainter so you could trace over it, then blank spaces for you to write it yourself.
Do you guys learn in a similar way? I really want to be able to write more “naturally”, so I wanna figure out a way to learn it!
November 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
For more information about pens, since Korean character is complicated and dense, many Korean students use sharp-tip pens like “HI-TEC C” made by Japanese company ‘Pilot’. (This one is most famous among high school and university students)
With sharp-tip pens, you can write Korean in smaller and clear form. Much better than BIC or Parker pens if you write Korean lol
November 14th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
For more information about pens, since Korean characters are complicated and dense, many Korean students use sharp-tip pens like “HI-TEC C” made by Japanese company ‘Pilot’. (This one is most famous among high school and university students)
With sharp-tip pens, you can write Korean in smaller and clear form. Much better than BIC or Parker pens if you write Korean lol
November 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Cool!
I’ve seen the third form of how you would write 하 alot. And about the pens I have alot of sharp tip pens of different brands and I have to agree. I also use gel pens ( Uniball, Pilot, Papermate ) but I wouldn’t use them all the time.
Just when I’m jotting something down. I also have a thing for handwriting so I enjoyed this immensely. My Korean handwriting looks alot like the first sample because I have neat handwriting period. ^_^
안녕!