If you want to read more about learning the Korean language, go read my article entitled “ How to learn Korean by yourself“. Keep at it and eventually you’ll be able to type in the Korean Hangul characters without even looking! Find a news article or something similar in Korean, and start typing it into your computer.Īt first, it’ll be painfully slow, and you’ll be searching for the keys all of the time! Don’t worry, you’ll pick up speed quick enough.ĭo this exercise once or twice per day, and you’ll notice that after each pause, it gets a little easier. I suggest that you start copying text onto your computer. Now all that remains to do is to really get this new skill under your skin. But the above video should clear that up for you. Your computer or phone will automatically figure out when a syllable is finished and close the character block and start a new one. Korean symbols are combinations of 2-4 characters, the vowel always comes after a consonant. To write double consonants and the few remaining vowels you need to press shift while hitting certain keys. On the Korean alphabet, vowels are grouped together on the right and consonants are on the left. These kind of things are much easier to show you than to describe in words. Once you’ve got the keyboard installed and set-up, you need to learn how to use it!
You’ll quickly find, that you’ll refer to it less as time goes by and you get used to the keys. Look at it each time you write in Korean. You can simply print this illustration of the Korean keyboard layout and keep it near your computer.
Videos for older versions exist too, like Windows 8. There are plenty of these instructions available on YouTube, so try going there searching for “Install keyboard in …” And search for whichever device you use.
If you can’t figure it out, you might want to look for a more detailed guide, or a video. I’ve gathered the official guides for the most common platforms here: The first steep for writing Hangul, or the Korean alphabet on your devices is installing the software.įor the most devices, the alphabet and the language are already installed, and it’ll just be a question of flicking a switch.
How do I install a Korean keyboard on my PC, Mac, Iphone or Android phone? Yet it’s really uncommon in Korea, so even though it’s better, you’ll be having a hard time writing in Korean if you ever borrow your friend’s keyboard. In principle they’re easier to write on, and even exist in a version that can be used one-handed (which is great for people with disabilities). You could actually argue that the other keyboard layouts that exist, the 3-set Sebeolsik layouts are better. This one is by far the most commonly used, so that’s the one you should train yourself using if you ever plan on writing Korean on somebody else’s computer! The most common one is the “2-set keyboard layout”, also known as the Dubeolsik layout.
In Korea there are several different keyboard layouts. There are multiple different Korean keyboard layouts