Speak/Understand Korean or Read/Write in Korean?

[˹AS˼]

If you could only pick one pair, what would it be?

 

Wanna know how to read Korean websites/charts and the netizen comments?

 

Or finally know what your idol is singing as well as understanding them when they are in variety shows?

[snsd9sone]

normally, you will need to be able to speak and understand a language before you can read and write in that language right?

[Starlight]

Speak and understand, knowing how to read and write is nice, but if I couldn't understand it or speak it then I'm not sure how useful that knowledge would be. If I went to Korea I'd have to carry a whiteboard to communicate.

[choijxxnnxl]

I'm always interested in Languages so I wanna learn how to speak and write Korean Languages and understand it as well. But for now, I have to stick with eng subs.

[Vinctus]

How is it possible to read/write in a language without being able to understand it?

[Lully]

How is it possible to read/write in a language without being able to understand it?

^^^ 

 

OP your logic is p flawed. 

[˹AS˼]

normally, you will need to be able to speak and understand a language before you can read and write in that language right?

 

 

 

How is it possible to read/write in a language without being able to understand it?

 

^^^

 

OP your logic is p flawed.

 

It's not that unusual to start learning how to read a language before learning to speak it. You learn the letters and translate them into your own language. Then words start forming and you can again, translate them back to your language of origin.

[oh-gumdrop]

Speak+understand since i already know how to read and write

[ultkook]

How is it possible to read/write in a language without being able to understand it?

Well I guess our pronunciation could be terrible and you can read at a slow pace whereas when people speak to you they could talk quickly?

[Almondandlime]

I'm a lot better at reading/writing Korean than speaking/understanding....

[♢ A ♢]

 I'd wanna learn how to understand and speak Korean

[moonlight_]

The 2nd one bc I can already do the first

[xharuharux]

LMAO to this day i have lived over 2 decades and can barely write my motherlands language T.T 

 

its just too damn hard 

 

so id say understand and speak korean  

[TAE ZONE]

my reading/writing is fine (for a beginner-intermediate) but i need to improve more with listening @_@ though this year, my speaking has improved  

[Joji.]

Speak+understand since i already know how to read and write

 

This.

[sane]

Well I guess our pronunciation could be terrible and you can read at a slow pace whereas when people speak to you they could talk quickly?

 

Even though people usually learn them at the same time, accent, literacy, and language ability are actually completely separate things that can be learned on their own. So you could be able to read really well in Korean but understand nothing, you could have a perfect Korean accent but not speak a word of Korean, you could be completely fluent but unable to read or be understood because of your terrible accent, or any combination therein.

[ElleMae]

I know how to read Hangul. Still working on writing/proper hangul spelling. Also learning to speak and understand it. It's a difficult language for an english speaker to learn, but that's what makes it fun. 

[Hello Aya!]

Speak and understand, my grammar still off sometimes and I'm not that good with listening yet

[KimOppa]

I started learning Korean by first learning the alphabets and then grammar but my vocabulary still lacks greatly.

 

I think I'm better at writting/reading than listening/speaking but the latter skills are not that bad.

 

 

Off-topic I'm learning Spanish at the moment so I hope this app would teach me as much vocabs as possible.

[˹AS˼]

I started learning Korean by first learning the alphabets and then grammar but my vocabulary still lacks greatly.

 

I think I'm better at writting/reading than listening/speaking but the latter skills are not that bad.

 

 

Off-topic I'm learning Spanish at the moment so I hope this app would teach me as much vocabs as possible.

 

What app? Duolingo?

[KimOppa]

What app? Duolingo?

 

Yup. I have a downloaded pdf for the grammar and Doulingo app to learn words.

[Tee]

Speak+understand since i already know how to read and write

 

 

same with Japanese minus kanji.

[pimo]

I'd rather understand, learning to read and write it is much easier

BTW its VERY possible to be able to read and write a language and not speak/understand it, ie majority of Muslims can read and write Arabic but can't understand shit.

(I guess it depends on what you mean by speak, because by reading it you can technically speak it but you can't communicate with it.)

[farise]

Well i understand more than i can write so yeah i need to learn to write

 

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[giacc]

Writing and reading is easy. But hearing and understanding is sooo hard. 3 months here in Korea and is still soooo hard.