Korean wiki project

한국분을 위해서 한국어로도 설명해 놓았습니다. 여기를 클릭하세요.

Welcome to the new front page of Koreanwikiproject.com.  If you’re looking for the wiki, click here (or use the link at the top). This section will function as the news section of the site. For those already familar with this project, unlike the wiki, you do not need to create an account to post comments here and you can have an avatar associated with your email by going to gravatar. We also recommend using Firefox or Google Chrome when viewing this website.

For those that do not know about this project, I will briefly explain it now. The Korean Wiki Project is a collaborative effort to unify knowledge on the Korean language and to make the information easily accessible and relevant to anyone. This website explains Korean grammar patterns, idioms, slang, along with practical vocabulary words organized by subject. This site will also thoroughly teach you how to read and write Hangeul (한글), the Korean script, with many examples and even advanced consonant assimilation rules. This project was originally intended to explain everything in only English, however we are looking for people who speak other languages to join this project. We would like to have articles translated in other languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and any other major language. If you are interested in joining our team,  please contact us or leave a comment here.

One of the goals of this project is to provide the most accurate, in depth information and accurate translations for Korean grammar patterns and vocabulary words where other dictionaries and books fail. Another goal is to make all information on here simple and easy to understand.

• For more details about this project, check the about section.
• If you have any ideas, suggestions or want to request an article to be finished, leave a comment at the Suggestions and requests page. If an article gets many requests, we’ll give it priority over others.
• If you want to know how you can contribute, please check the community portal page or contributing page. Please keep in mind, in order to edit the articles on the wiki, you must create an account first.
• If you’re completely new to Korean, you should start by learning the alphabet first.

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There are two number systems in Korean, native Korean numbers and Sino-Korean numbers. Sino-Korean numbers are derived from Chinese. Check out the Sino Korean numbers page and also check out lesson 15 at talktomeinkorean.com to help you learn Sino-Korean numbers. After that, you can practice using the two quizes I’ve created.

• Sino-Korean numbers quiz 1: numbers 1 – 100
• Sino-Korean numbers quiz 2: numbers 100 – 10,000.

The second quiz was voiced by a friend of mine who is a Korean Air stewardess.  A big thank you to her for helping with this project. Give us some feedback on the quiz! I’ll also be adding 3 more quizzes this week related to Hangeul. Next week I might also be adding another Sino-Korean quiz for numbers above 10,000.

Thanks to the folks at talktomeinkorean.com we now have audio files up for the learning Hangeul section.The only way to accurately pronounce Korean words is to use the Korean script. English and Korean do not have perfectly matching sounds, so using Romanization is mostly a bad idea. We have created a 6 step lesson plan and have employed various methods to help others learn the Korean script quickly and effectively. This is a joint project between the Korean Wiki Project and TalktomeinKorean.com. We have been looking for the right voices to represent the Hangeul sounds and they volunteered their time to move this project forward. We are very thankful for their effort and help. Also a big thank you to one of our regular Korean contributors 신지은 for thinking up most of the examples.

As of 2/18/10, we recommend you finish step 3, take the quiz and stop at step 4. Step 5 and step 6 are still under construction and are in the process of being modified. A step 7 will also be created in the future to help you with advanced pronunciation.

Update (2/18/10) : I have split up steps 3 and 4 into 2 parts respectively in order to reduce the load time of each page. There is now a step 3b and step 4b. Special thanks to Clark for his suggestions and feedback.

Update (2/20/10): I added the descriptions for step 6 as well as an image. Also added a reminder in Step 4  for ㅅ sounds at the top. Still waiting for more sounds to be recorded, then this section will be done.  Then the two quizzes will be made, one for sections 4-6 and one for distinguishing sounds such as ㄱ, ㅋ, ㄲ.  Also would like to make a video showing proof that romanization sucks, so people would stop wasting their time with it.

If you have any feedback or problems, please leave them here. If you happen to be a flash programmer, we could also use your help! We’d like to make these examples into like a slideshow with an audio player in hopes of reducing the load time and page size. I will keep everyone updated through this post.