Learning Hanja Gave me SUPERPOWERS!

[@khmerpolyglot5591]

Hanja > Hangeul. I wish more Korean classes would teach more Hanja.

[@sams_sekai]

I can really relate to this! I'm a Japanese and Korean learner and I ended up living (accidentally) in Taiwan in 2020 when Covid struck. I found it exceptionally easy to live and get around there despite my very limited Mandarin back then. I remember I'd get people to write things down or voice-to-text on my phone and I could get the main point of what they were saying to me pretty reliably without translating! Also reading food labels as a vegan was much easier with Hanja knowledge! 한자 최고야!

[@KoreanPatch]

漢子 最高!! Haha Love your story! I'm glad to hear the story you chose to share was about something that boosted your happiness - maintaining your normal diet abroad with less friction. That's the magic, there!

[@sams_sekai]

@@KoreanPatch 갑자기日本語！ㅋㅋ

[@TalisaHwang]

I relate to this a lot! Thanks to studying Chinese a bit and then switching over to studying Japanese instead (I've studied Korean for about 5 years at this point), whenever I would watch Korean shows to get some listening practice in they would throw in Hanja characters here and there; and I could understand what they meant thanks to my studies in those other languages :) So I agree with you 101%

[@learnkoreanwithKorean]

맞습니다. 한자를 통해 양쪽 언어를 이해하는데, 큰 도움이 됩니다. 발음의 차이는 있지만, 아예 발음이 똑같은 단어도 있습니다. Ex preparation 🇰🇷준비Junbi , 🇯🇵準備junbi, 🇻🇳chuẩn bị🇨🇳准备junbei

[@quach8quach907]

I'm Vietnamese and you are too smart.

[@rheaspyridou5623]

Thank you Ian. After studying Korean for some time I have come to realise how true is what you are saying. I will enjoy the freebie

[@oentoengjahja712]

The answer is because Hanzi or Chinese characters are the lingua franca or lingua academica for East Asia, countries that are heavily influenced by Chinese culture must have absorbed culture in their original culture and there has been assimilation and acculturation that has been going on for hundreds of years if not thousands of years. Like Latin or Greek culture in the west, which can still be detected, even if only at the vocabulary level.

[@koreanimmersion3938]

I had planned on learning Hanja eventually once my korean reached a certain level, but your video series on this subject has convinced me to start NOW, hahaha. Especially considering I'm living in Korea right now (and I plan on moving to China ) this will most definitely prove incredibly valuable. So, thank you for sharing your experiences, suggestions, and most of all, time with us! 진심으로 감사드립니다 🤗.

[@Helynox]

Very true! 한자 (Hanja) is really a game changer for me. Since Covid happened I started a 한국어 독학셍 (self-study korean) journey which lasted 8 months until I reached an intermediate level. I wanted to go to South Korea at this time but couldn't due to border restrictions. Lacking a end goal, I was not satisfied and not motivated anymore in learning Korean. And then, I had an opportunity to go Taiwan for a while so i switched my learning and my focus to learning 中文繁體 (Traditional Mandarin) which is very close (if not the same) to 한자. Killing two birds with one stone: - Unlocking my understanding of Korean through 한자. - And in 7 months I reached a very satisfying level in Mandarin and the ability to read (or should I say feel) the vast majority of characters. The culture, the history, the emotions, the feelings behind each character brings much more value than you'd think. I found great pleasure in learning them and i really can't recommend enough to start for yourself even if you only learn Korean (the most common 한자 doesn't take that much time). Visa in hand i'm still in my little France, but once in east Asia I'm really gonna be glad to understand my surroundings and much more.

[@MrLanguageFanatic]

I am a Korean learner myself. I used yo read news articles from time to time on Naver to boost my reading skills. One day I had an epiphany and I wondered if there was a website that would automatically convert some 한글 words to their written 漢子 form. And you know what there is! I know copy and paste long news articles (that interest me of course) into the website and I can see the (80% accurate) morphed 한자 characters along with the 한글 words. It makes reading news articles so much easier for me now.

[@KoreanPatch]

That's really awesome! Are you per chance talking about Hanjaro?

[@MrLanguageFanatic]

@@KoreanPatch Yea, that's awesome that you know! :)

[@bbybudaluna]

The Chinese class I took bc my school didn’t have Korean…nights of writing lines of characters ㅠㅠ, they weren’t useless after all 너무 다행이다 🥲🥹

[@johndowell5572]

Great video, Ian!!! I really need to get on learning some Hanja 🤣🤣🤣 For real, though, I look forward to the day that I can recognize and comprehend this stuff at your level!

[@quach8quach907]

All those words are Sino-Vietnamese. 入口 = nhập khẩu 出口 = xuất khẩu 男 = nam 女 = nữ 銀行 = ngân hàng 中山 = Trung Sơn 市場 = thị trường 夜 = dạ I’m learning Chinese characters to improve my Vietnamese.

[@pharmacist5884]

Learning Hanja (Han Characters....literally Characters from Han > Han Dynasty from China) is like learning Latin. In medieval Europe most educated Europeans communicate with other Europeans without speaking the language of the other by using or writing Latin. This is the strength of a universal language. Han characters in Asia can be compared to Latin in the Roman Empire.

[@saaarrj]

As a Korean American, this was wonderfully put in a relatable way that i have had trouble trying to explain the nuances to ppl who's OnLy language is English 😅 Perfect accent also!

[@quach8quach907]

English is not one language. English is 60% French as Korean and Vietnamese is 60% Chinese. Learning French and Latin would help an English speaking person in the same way as learning Chinese characters.

[@brookParsons]

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSS$$$$$$$$ B, NOW we're Talkin'''99999!!!!!!

[@katerinaseredova3497]

are there any sites you'd recommend for learning hanja?

[@KoreanPatch]

Sort of! There are tools, for sure. At present, one of the best ways to acquire Hanja recognition is to use an online tool like Hanjaro, or to just look them up as you become curious - that is, if you'd like an English base. TTMIK's book is cool, too. Otherwise, there are tons of textbooks in Korean that I've dealt with here that do a pretty good job of introducing the characters in a bunch of different ways. I'd recommend sticking around this channel, since I'm going to be making Hanja resources, courses, and stuff. I think the next vid in this series will be a guide to one or more Hanja-related tools.

[@quach8quach907]

Learn the radicals and their etymologies from cave drawings. Learn 1,000 most common words.

[@RKKY-mf7fe]

People don't like learning Hanja or Kanji because they approach it with the same attitude as learning an alphabet. And that's wrong. Watch the caligraphy masters, they are in another mental state of calmness and concentration. Their environment is clean and stress free. Writing hanja is part meditation, art, and self reflection.

[@贾继中]

korean pronounce is similar to Cantonese