Choosing Growth: Why I’m Learning Hangul in My Free Time

Do you want to learn another language? Because I do, and the language I chose to study is Hangul. You might be thinking the reason I decided to learn it is because I love K-dramas. And you’re right—but of course, I also have other reasons for wanting to study it.

First, I genuinely want to learn another language, and I believe this one could be useful to me.

This language has market value here in the Philippines. If I can learn it, it could become a potential source of income in the future.

I could teach it, create study guides, subtitle movies, become an interpreter, and many more.

So why Hangul? Why not French, Arabic, or Chinese?

Well, I think Hangul is relatively easy to learn and easier to earn from if I manage to learn it in the future. Honestly, my top choices were Nihongo (Japanese) and Hangul, but I decided to start with Hangul first.

I’m not even sure if I won’t get lazy or if I’ll actually succeed in learning it.

I can read Hangul a bit faster now, but I still can’t construct sentences. I only know a few phrases.

The other day, I was thinking of ways to teach myself Hangul, and I came up with the idea of making a study practice video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lV67Ep-yhY

The first one I made was kind of wrong because I didn’t start from the first step of how I should actually begin learning. , but since I had already started it, I decided to finish it anyway. For the next videos, I’ll make something more suitable for beginners.

I realized I need to learn like how a child learns to speak—so I’ll begin with character familiarization and create a study practice video for that too.

Right now, I only have one video. But this single video will be the start of a new way of learning for me.