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Why learn Korean?

Whether you wish to take a trip to Korea, find a job working with a Korean company or simply make friends with Koreans, this lens will provide you with a great deal of useful sites. 

Let's build your Korean langauge muscles.  This lens will begin with warm-up links connected to hangeul, the Korean alphabet, and progress to more situational exercises such as asking for directions or shopping.

Korean on Wikipedia 

This is an in-depth article about everything connected to the Korean language such as the history, composition, phonlogy, spelling, structure and more.

:This article is mainly about the spoken Korean language. See Hangul for details on the native Korean writing system.

Korean (, see below) is the official language of Korea, both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers. In the 15th century a national writing system was developed by Sejong the Great, currently called Hangul.

The genealogical classification of the Korean language is debated. Some linguists place it in the Altaic language family, while others consider it to be a language isolate. Some believe it to be distantly related to Japanese. Like Japanese it is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax.

An Excellent Korean Program 

Learn Korean Now
Learn Korean Now offers an extensive online Korean course, covering the culture as well as the Korean language. Members are welcomed to and encouraged to improve their education via the forums as well.

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