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Isabelle asks: "I'm learning Korean, but I'm slow at reading. How can I improve?" In this episode: An unfamiliar alphabet can be off-putting Some alphabets present significant challenges (e.g. Chinese) Korean is relatively easy - only 24 characters The pronunciation is reflected in the characters (unlike Chinese, for example) Learn all the characters and associated sounds at the beginning Improving is really just a question of practice Keep away from romanisation Persist! Resources mentioned in today's episode: About the Korean language - a great summary from the Omniglot blog Polyglot Pub Facebook Group - language meetups I run in London Polyglot Pub Email List - get email notifications about events Your Homework! Help me create an amazing feature for the 100th episode! I'd like to create a montage of voices of podcast listeners from around the world, all giving one piece of language advice they've learned from the show. This would be such a great way to commemorate the 100th episode, and provide motivat