With new and innovative ways to learn Korean, we’re bringing in the new year with a new feature! Before King Sejong created Hangul, Korea used Chinese characters, hanja, as the main writing tool. As this is the case, about 60% to 70% of Korean words are based on these Chinese characters. So knowing some Hanja, will definitely increase vocabulary! Tune in to today’s news feed and find out about our new feature, why it’ll be a great tool to use, and how we will be approaching this! And after you listen in, remember to stop by KoreanClass101.com and leave us a comment!
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17 Responses to “News #11 - A New Year and a New Feature!”
maxiewawa says:
January 9th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Wow, the miracle of special effects…. it sounded as if Hyunwoo 선셍님 was really in the studio!
漢字는 좋아해요! 즌곡말이 할 스 있어… because… ahhh…
I like 漢字 a lot because I read Chinese. It’ll make Korean learning a lot easier. If I can see a 漢字 when I learn a Korean word, somehow it just “sticks’ a lot easier. And since so many Korean words have 漢字 associated with them I’m sure my Korean vocabulary will grow exponentially.
정말 감사 합니다!
安宁！
Taliana says:
January 9th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
YAY! 
I’m not at intermediate lessons yet but I’m going to be looking anyway
비누 says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:31 am
와우~~ 현우도 있잖아요~~!!저 너무 행복해요 
일본어에도 한자가 많은데.. 저 한국어 한자어 느낌이 많이 좋아요.그리고 한자어가 아닌 말들은 더 ..
Jacqueline (쟈클린) says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:07 am
What?!!!!!!!!!! New Year in Korea is on February 7th!!!!!!!!!
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
That’s funny! 
Isn’t that a little late? ㅋㅋㅋ
I don’t understand lunar calendar haha
I’ll have to research about that ㅋㅋㅋ.
Oh 현우 is in the audio!!! Glad to hear him!
Even though hanja is not very used in korea nowdays (Thank God!), i think it’s important to know at least the basic hanjas. Those hanjas that we Must Know.
rigo says:
January 10th, 2008 at 6:18 am
hello everybody
happy new yeat to you guys
Hanja is the first time i hear that word , im a beginner
but sounds interesting , i know some kanji i wonder if its
going to help me understand , anyway thanks for the news
ciao
steved says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Great news!
[random]
I ran a 10k in San Francisco for a Year of the Rat celebration… a couple of cyles ago…
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maxiewawa says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Hey Jacqueline, do you know how the Chinese have the Chinese New Year in February? It’s also from the lunar calendar.
Maybe from now on we should call it Chinese/Korean New Year.
Or “Spring Festival” as it’s known in China.
Sindy 신디 says:
January 10th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Happy New Year on February 7 year of the rat! *Yuppi* 
Hanja party? Bring it on! 
I also ready like Keith said and waiting to renew my susbcription again.
Newbie and Beginner here!!! S_R_C
선현우 says:
January 11th, 2008 at 6:09 am
오스틴 고마워! 돌아가서 보자!! 아마 앞으로 내 목소리를 자주 들어야 할 거야 하하.
Thank you everyone for welcoming me 
And please check out the Intermediate Lesson 4 when you get a chance 
You’ll see how fast your Korean vocabulary can expand using Hanja
January 11th, 2008 at 6:38 am
[…] Earlier this week we announced the launch of the Hanja Vocabulary feature in our PDF’s. Today, we are glad to announce the much anticipated release of a new premium features which is sure to take your speaking skills to new heights. […]
Vangelicmonk says:
January 12th, 2008 at 10:29 am
This will be an excellent option. Too advanced for me now, but hopefully very helpful in the near future.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
[…] My friend had been in Korea only for a few weeks and she wasn’t really aware of the fact that Korean has a lot of Korean words can be written in Chinese characters as well, although we pronounce them differently from the Chinese or Japanese people do. (Learn more about this in this newsfeed) […]
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