2003-05-03 08:23:54, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

>It is said that Korean children aren't taught the individual letters,
>but are taught to recognize syllable blocks individually (as if they are
>unanalyzed syllabograms), but that after a few months (still in First
>Grade, that is) they discover the subparts that are the letters, on
>their own.

This is interesting, in that it suggests that when learning to read
Chinese, there might be at least some awareness of the constituent
parts of each character. I'd expect that to be so, especially where
the radical is easy to see.

Best regards,

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