English is hard I know if you can speak
English you think it's easy but if
you're a beginner English actually makes
no sense for example the word listen has
a T but you write it as listing no has a
case salmon has an L yacht is not yes or
yeah it's that and good luck spelling
the word constitutional as you can tell
English is hard and Chinese is even
harder
it has 50,000 unique characters each
describing one word so for beginners
this looks impossible but I just learned
about a language that is different it
has the easiest alphabet in the world
and it's one you'll never be able to
guess it's the Korean
500 years ago Korean language used to be
written in Chinese then one king said
that this is too hard
no one is reading or writing anymore so
he came up with a new alphabet that you
can learn in one hour
oh my goodness instead of complicated
Chinese letters his alphabet looks like
your mouth when you say um your mouth
looks like a rectangle so this is the
character M when you say o your mouth is
round so this is oh and this is SG KL o
based on your mouth and throat shape
instead of 28 alphabets there is only 24
instead of you are he is she is there is
only it is instead of silent letters now
you write exactly what you say this is
nice
hell man what you see is exactly what
you mean no more crazy Spelling's no
more long words no more crazy weird
characters this is the Hangul alphabet
and it quickly became the official
alphabet in Korea
that's how millions of Koreans started
reading and writing more because the
language became easier and that's also
how I was able to read Korean in less
than an hour so I could walk down this
street and read the signs in a language
I never understood before there's so
much meat on the street insane don't get
me wrong the language itself is still
very hard how do you say what's your
name
it'll mean
Loree a wall but writing and reading it
has become incredibly easy I love this
alphabet I'm communicating with locals
now onion hush Maga because it is
exactly what the world needs simpler
ways to read simpler ways to write
simpler ways to communicate language is
supposed to break barriers not to create
them so we can finally share this world
with every culture see you next week
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