Hangeul Documentation Project

Well, yea, I’ve just been working hard over on the Korean Wiki Project.  I just want to update everyone on it so we can get some feedback (if y’all have any).

One of our goals is to be the most comprehensive source for learning Hangeul.  Yeah, yeah, I know there’s a number of sites out there for you to learn Hangeul.  Nevertheless, we will have the most information for you on the language organized in a fashion so that you don’t have to be a linguist to understand things.  Even in it’s current state, I think our Hangeul pages contain more information on the individual characters (excluding audio/video material) than just about any other site (I could be wrong, it’s happened before).

I’ve been going through the 자모 (letter) pages trying to find out what we needed to include.  We don’t have any sound files, so please don’t complain that you don’t hear anything when you hit the play button on the examples.  For now they’re just filler.  Anyways, this is what we’ve come up with so far for the character pages:

http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=ㄱ

If the above link doesn’t work for you, try this one:

http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=%E3%84%B1

You can find more information on the other characters, but ㄱ is really the page we’re working on before completely deciding on a style and how to present the information.

So, what do y’all think?  Any suggestions?  Please remember that it’s a (major) work in progress, so be nice :)

  1. WOW – a LOT of information on the ㄱ page – almost overwhelming in nature. Perhaps a ‘primer’ page with all of the basics on one page would work better, leaving the many sound clips for the more advanced (or interested) students. To be honest, I would find it all a little intimidating under this method – but it is comprehensive.

  2. @Chris in South Korea
    That page is meant to be comprehensive. The smaller page is in the Learning Hangeul section. Before creating the smaller tutorials, we’re going through a depth approach so we know exactly what to include in the learning section. Thanks for the feedback, I’ve added a link to help beginners know they shouldn’t try to read that page.

  3. @Jay
    What do you mean? I meant to link to the ㄱ page. Is it not working for you?

  4. http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=ㄱ –> This is not the ㄱ page. I can see only [ ? ].

  5. @Jay
    When I click that link, I get to the ㄱ page. Try clicking this link: http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=%E3%84%B1. Does this one work?

  6. Yes, second one works. But first one is not working. it’s a little weird. lol

  7. @Jay
    Yeah, it must have something to do with the browser or something. Thanks for telling me about that, I’ve added that link into the post.

  8. Yeah I’ve noticed some browser automatically allow unicode characters while others don’t. This was a problem when I tried linking people to the a specific wiki article that contained a korean character in the url.

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