Learning Korean

My latest hobby/fascination is writing using Hangul, the alphabet invented by Koreans for Koreans. (This is much more productive and less depressing than my previous hobby/fascination.)

Why Korean?
1. I know several folks from Korea or with ancestry in Korea, and I like every single one of them.
2. I like the fact that Korean is not tonal. No offense to Chinese, but the difference between má and mà are tough for my ear and tongue to navigate.
3. Korean is written phonetically. If you can pronounce it, and you can follow the rules of building the letter blocks, you can write in Korean.
4. There's a chance I'll get to visit Korea (as in South Korea) soon, and I don't want to be hopelessly lost.

Here are the names of my family members. (I'm sticking with proper nouns so far, because I don't need to actually SPEAK Korean to say someone's name.)

더스티 존스	Dusty Jones
제니퍼	Jennifer*
이라이자	Elijah
로사리	Rosalie
루시	Lucy

* Actually, Korean has no 'f' sound, so this is Jenniper. But really it's Jennipeh.

Special thanks go out to Paul for getting me interested and providing helpful support, and to Google Translate for the virtual keyboard.