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| magic9man2 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6425 days ago 149 posts - 153 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French, Cantonese, Russian, Korean, Taiwanese, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 1 of 7 25 September 2010 at 9:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Is is possible for me to type in Korean Hangul using the layout of my American keyboard? I understand that I am able to type on my keyboard using an original Korean keyboard layout, but I'd like to be able to type as I do in Japanese, with a Romanization system that applies Japanese, or in this case Korean, sounds to my "qwerty" layout. For example, ideally, my typing "ya" on my keyboard would yield the result of the hangul "ㅑ". Excuse me if my example wasn't accurate, my knowledge of the Korean language is still very limited. Thanks in advance for any responses.
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6090 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 3 of 7 25 September 2010 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
It took me a LONG time to take the plunge but trust me, it is easy to learn how to type using a regular Korean keyboard. Korean is one of those languages where it, in my humble opinion, simply works better to use the keyboard the locals use. Personally, I use Hanyu Pinyin keyboards for Mandarin, Korean keyboards for Korean, and romaji for Japanese. Works well. Edited by jimbo on 26 September 2010 at 1:53am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5331 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 4 of 7 25 September 2010 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not aware of any romanization input keyboard IMEs for Korean, which I suspect is partly due to the fact that Korean doesn't really romanize as directly as Japanese (particularly with the consonants that can change sound so readily). Regardless, it is definitely worth it in the long run to learn to type the 한글 directly. It actually takes me longer to type romanized words than the original Korean words now because when my mind thinks of a Korean word, my fingers instinctively starts heading for the correct 한글 letters.
If it helps: There are companies that make 한글 keyboard stickers (or even full keyboards with both English and 한글 letters on each key) to make the transition easier.
That's actually a good example of why a romanized IME would be so tricky to implement. Should "ya" produce 야 (the word) or just ㅑ (the letter). If the latter, then how do you type a word like "yak" 약 (medicine)? ngyak? Also it wouldn't be obvious to the IME system how to divide the syllable blocks without some separator character. If you type "mara" does it treat that as 말아 or 마라? Both are valid words with different meanings and both romanize to mara. In 한글 input mode, hitting the ㅇ character differentiates the two, but that character is silent and thus not included in the romanization. Edited by Warp3 on 25 September 2010 at 7:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5445 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 5 of 7 25 September 2010 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Typing in Korean is fairly simple. Just Google how to do it (though, if you have Windows 7, I'm not sure directions would be out yet.) Korean romanization sucks, and I'm glad it doesn't exist for typing, because it would end up slowing me down even more.
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| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5136 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 6 of 7 26 September 2010 at 3:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Anyone knows how should one pronounce this word: 비밀 번호 ?
1. Bi - mil - bon - ho or 2. Bi- mil - bo - no? I sometimes still feel confused regarding Korean liason... Thanks in advance! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hanekawa Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4968 days ago 30 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 7 of 7 29 September 2010 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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http://www.amazon.com/Keyboard-Stickers-Transparent-Backgrou nd-Keyboards/dp/B002QOHASS
Buy something like this. I'm buying these stickers because their cheap :D They also have them in different colours and stuff. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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