Random memory

[pne]

At school, I taught my Japanese girlfriend (part of) the Korean alphabet and we used it to write notes to one another in Japanese.

I imagine that very few people at school, if any, would have been able to understand those notes: the Koreans could read but not understand them, and the Japanese couldn't read them. (On the other hand, if a Korean read it out loud to a Japanese, then they could arrive at the meaning of the note.)

The Korean alphabet lends itself surprisingly well to Japanese, I found; the main obstacle was a missing letter for /z/.

Comments

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

That's a good way to practice the Korean alphabet. I may have to try it; I don't know enough Korean words to practice that way.

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

My high school Japanese teacher did not allow us to write Japanese in two ways: 1. Romaji and 2. Han'geul. We had a lot of Korean students and I'd see their notes written in Han'geul because their kana skills weren't adequate.