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Originally Posted by TalnSG
Compared to Japanese use of Kanji, there seems to be much less use of Hanja with Hangul. And at least there is only one version of Hangul, unlike having to learn Hiragana, and then Katana, before even getting to the Kanji.
But this is from someone who still is a rank beginner in both of those languages.
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Sorry, but that was too good to pass up.
Well, I did emphasize the word 'sort of'.
Anyway, my point was that Hangul is a writing system, rather than the language itself. You can similarly write English (Latin Alphabet), Chinese (Hanzi), and Russian (Cyrillic Alphabet)... which don't really make sense unless you are
just learning the writing system.
I think the OP meant "Korean (Hangungmal/Hangugeo)", or "Korean (Chosŏnmal/Chosŏnŏ)", depending on which side of the border he's referring to. ('though I doubt it's the latter.)