[voussoir]

I absolutely disagree. Romanized Korean is harder to read than Korean itself. The sounds implied by the roman spelling do not match the sounds you're supposed to make, and you lose the syllable boundaries that aid in pronunciation. I feel like a caveman stumbling over my letters when I try to read a romanized word.

A one-page alphabet reference chart would be enough to remind the reader which letter is which without relying on the romanization crutch.

Normally I don't like to make argumentative internet comments but I really passionately think romanization is a detriment to a learning tool.

[dumbhndown]

We don't need to be this divisiveabout this. There is no right way as to how people learn

As someone that knows and can read Hindi, Gujarat, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and beginner at Hangul and Hiragana, romanization absolutely helps anchor the sound. The actual sound when speaking is going to change anyways as your converse with more people. But at least, romanization helps recall and focus on the actual word that you are learning.

[mortallywounded]

As someone that is self taught and fairly good at Korean-- I agree. Using romanization of any kind is a nightmare in Korean. The only way to really grasp the language is to be able to read Hangul as soon as possible.

Using romanization is a lot worse than in a language like Japanese. In Japanese the romanization somewhat maps well to Japanese. In Korean, the various romanization methods are horrendous and don't come close to Korean at all.

Not only that-- many grammar forms require understanding the Hangul vowels to understand how to conjugate them. If you're using romanization they don't exist.

Even worse, Korean sound change rules make it hard to read Hangul without a lot of practice. If you're using romanization you're completely doomed.

[jroesch]

I agree with this after a short while I turned off the romanization in many learning apps as it just messes with/undermines your actual learning.