After resting for 1.5 months from my korean language, it's time to pick up the book again. I have to admit korean language is really no joke - it's main diffculty lies in its grammar and the different forms that is to be used in different situations and towards different people. It's rather similar to japanese and so if you can master either one of it, you will have no problems for the other. In fact, Koreans themselves grapple with the difficulty of their own language. My korean friend once told me that because korean language is already so difficult to master that koreans do not want to even take up another langauge...haha...interesting and maybe that's why we don't hear majority of the koreans speaking a second language. I sort of can understand now that I'm learning it. Even spelling can be a problem. If you are thinking what's so difficult about spelling...just memorising isn't it?...you are wrong. There's nothing wrong with memorising and korean letters are not as complicated as chinese but...but...the one thing about korean langauge is that the sound of the vowel or final consonant of a word can actually be carried over into the next word...for eg. let's say a simple word for congratulations, in korean it is, in reduced form, 축하 ("chu-ka") (if you separate the 2 words, it is pronounced as "chuk" and "ha", ㅎ sound is omitted when combined). But to a person hearing the word, he can write it as  추가 or 추카 or 축아 or 춬아...all sounds the same but all not correct. A comfort thing is that koreans themselves also struggle sometimes with spelling so I'm actually still not that bad...kekeke.

I have yet to mentioned about the grammer which is a headache...and this post will become a long essay. Anyway, nonetheless I enjoyed my korean language and still loving it ^0^. Sounds familiar?