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Is there some way to learn hangul to be able to write it?

I dont ask about learning actual Korean. Just Hangul yo say "write English in Hangul" - if it is possible.

Or some service that "translitetates" your name to Hangul?

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Hangul itself is quite easy: https://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/

But the Korean phonology is different from English and generally simpler so you’ll need to approximate a fair bit (not unlike English words in Japanese phonology).

Has anyone designed a Hangul-like alphabet that supports IPA (or even just English) phonemes?

IPA probably doesn’t work like you think it does. I also had this misconception that it was a “universal alphabet,” but apparently even linguists have to learn subsets of IPA in order to properly pronounce phonemes in different languages.

The person you're replying to said phoneme, suggesting awareness of the phonetic/phonemic distinction.

> apparently even linguists have to learn subsets of IPA in order to properly pronounce phonemes in different languages

I don't actually understand what you mean by this clause, but if we strip some words, "linguists learn subsets of IPA in order to properly pronounce phonemes in different languages" is in fact exactly what IPA is for.

The point is you can’t just learn IPA and know how to pronounce everything with it. No one knows “all” of IPA.

>I also had this misconception that it was a “universal alphabet,” but apparently even linguists have to learn subsets of IPA in order to properly pronounce phonemes in different languages.

What exactly do you mean above? If "subsets of IPA" are enough to "properly pronounce phonemes in different languages" then IPA is indeed a "universal alphabet".

More or less, the same way different subsets of Unicode cover most/all languages, which makes it a universal encoding.

Did you meant to imply that IPA would be a universal alphabet only if all of it was needed to cover each language - and e.g. no IPA-letters were redundant for covering this or that language?

Korean phonology is interesting. As a beginner in the language, it seems like the vowel sounds are richer and more complex while the consonants are simpler and less varied than English.

You also mostly can’t have consonant clusters in Hangul. It’s not a problem for Korean because they don’t have them to begin with.

This means that when Koreans adopt an English word that has multiple consonants not separated by a vowel then they need to add in some new vowels to be able to pronounce it. Thus words like Starbucks have two syllables in English but six in Korean.

Correct but with a minor correction. Starbucks becomes four syllables in Korean. A vowel (ㅡ) is inserted between the 's' and the 't' in 'star', and also after the last 's' in 'bucks'.

I came to say the same thing. wondering how he counted it as six.

> need to add in some new vowels to be able to pronounce it.

The fancy/searchable term for this is epenthetic vowels / epenthesis, FWIW.

I though the same thing happened often in Japanese where vowels are added into English words, for example Starbucks becomes Sutābakkusu, or Englishman becomes Igirisu hito.

As a Korean native, I agree.

Hangul is actually very easy to learn, so much so that it can trick you (me) into thinking Korean should be a snap. To answer you're question, you can find multiple pre built anki decks just for hangul. If you want a quick reference page on the characters, search 'hangul character guide'. This video was also helpful for me: https://youtu.be/TVqJbiSLw-E

> Hangul is actually very easy to learn, so much so that it can trick you (me) into thinking Korean should be a snap.

I don't really understand this. It's even easier to learn the Italian writing system, coming from English, than it is to learn the Korean writing system.

Who concludes from that that it's going to be easy to learn to speak Italian?

> Who concludes from that that it's going to be easy

Peoples' preconscious lizard brain, that generates gut feelings and first impressions based on superficial brute-force pattern-matching, presumably.

It's actually easy enough to be done in 30 minutes (the guide says 15 but I'm old and slow): https://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/

you simply insert padding-vocals and "silences" to make the syllable stuff line up, my name (Igor) becomes (silence)I-go-ru.

That sounds more like a Japanese transliteration. Korean provides for the "gor" to be expressed in a single character. 이 "ee" 골 "gor"

Korean consonants have slightly different sounds at the beginning and end of a syllable. ㄹ is pronounced as L at the end of a block, but R at the beginning of one, hence the additional syllable.

You can transliterate English to Hangeul but you'll end up missing some sounds (e.g. you'll not be able to super easily get 'th' or 'f' or 'v' or 'z') because Korean doesn't use those

You could learn most of it in about five minutes! Search on YouTube and you’ll find some guides.

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