An Alphabet? Don't Asian languages look like this?
When most Americans think of Asian languages, a picture like this pops into
their heads:
All they see is incomprehensible symbols, each one standing for an entire word. All
of them look impossibly complicated to the untrained eye. Let's face it:
This Tends To Scare People Away
Being illiterate isn't fun.
When you go to an Asian country, you can't read a newspaper or magazine; you
can't read a menu written in the native language; you can't even read a street sign.
There's just no way you can memorize those
thousands of symbols!
Calm down. Relax. Take a deep breath.
You don't have to use those difficult-looking symbols in Korean -- it has an alphabet.
Now, return to the first page.