--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@...> wrote:

>
> --- Patrick Chew <patchew@...> wrote:
>
> I was taught hangul in Mexico and Guatemala by a
> Korean
> backpacker. She taught me the alphabet in order.
> First the consonants and then the vowels. Then she
> showed me how to arrange them into a square.
> She made no mention of syllabaries and showed me no
> syllable charts.

I can't say that I have any personal experience of Hangul as a
syllabary. I did read an article about the effect of having symbols
arranged in a square vs linear pattern but it made no particular
sense to me. I am not tring to classify Hangul or any script for
that matter but just try to provide that a class exists for each
script type.

On the other hand my Tamil student did bring his syllabary,
handwritten on lined paper, to school to show me how he learned to
read.

Suzanne