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08-17-2009, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Miyavifan View Post
I'm not getting how it's like Chinese.
70% of words in Korean are Chinese-character-based in origin. If you couldn't understand Chinese characters at all, it'll be VERY hard to reach Korean fluency in a higher level.


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