3 Reasons to Avoid Romanization When Learning Korean

Are you learning Korean solely through romanization?

What is romanization? Romanization is writing the Korean alphabet (한글) using English letters. For example, you might write 한글 as “hangul,” “han-kul,” or a variety of other ways depending on the romanization system. Some resources include romanization as a reference to check that you’re pronouncing something correctly, but many learners mistakenly use romanization without ever using the actual alphabet. This can be detrimental to progress in the language, and I wanted to talk about why it can be so harmful through this video.

Check it out below~!