Fair warning, though, I don’t speak Korean! (Yet ) ) So my translation is a rough guess. I did my best to translate it to English so you can find your way around. The only problem is that the program is completely in Korean so if you’re just a beginner you will be lost in it. You can download it here: Hancom Typing Training (한컴 타자연습) It’s called Hancom Typing Training and it’s completely free.
So, how did I learn how to touch type Korean?īy using a nice little program that Kimchi Man got for me ages ago. The funny thing is, I still don’t know how to touch type English, nor my own language.
Which also improved the speed with which I learn vocabulary since now I just concentrate on the words themselves. I just wanted to be able to understand Korean language as soon as possible and I didn’t think knowing how to type fast would be of much use, especially considering how much effort it seemed to take.Īfter two weeks of forcing myself to touch type (typing without the use of sight to identify the keyboard keys) and to use all ten fingers to type Hangul I can say my speed increased tremendously. Memorizing the Korean keyboard layout and learning how to type without looking was what I needed to do.
Putting keyboard stickers on the keys to see where each Korean letter helped a bit, but not much. I sped up a bit after I had been practicing vocabulary online for a while, but it still took way too long. It took me forever to type a decent sentence. The difficult part is learning to not type the way I did – searching for every letter for minutes and then proudly punching it in with my index finger.
Hangul, the Korean alphabet, has only 24 letters so it’s pretty straightforward to input it with any keyboard. Practicing typing Korean has been the easiest part of learning Korean language for me so far, and the one where I could see the improvement the fastest.