The conventional typing method, like used in typewrites, is time-consuming, and you have to continually look at the keyboard. What you need is motivation, eagerness, and regular practice to adapt. Open your Windows XP Start Menu and click on “Run…” (in Windows 7, just type “regedit” into the Search bar).Anyone can learn proper typing quickly and easily with free typing programs. Or course, this can also prove to be a problem when you’re installing a program onto a computer that’s NOT in your native or chosen language.īut… there is a way to trick a program into thinking its installing onto a different language OS. This can be really useful for some programs like Google Chrome, or Audacity, which will install into the language that your OS is, and not necessarily into a different language not of your choosing. When a program installs, it takes a look at your registry settings to see what language the OS is in. We’ll just trick your OS to think it’s in Korean and install the program anyway. If you get a window that looks like the one above, don’t worry about it.

(But I have a method – described below – to trick the program into thinking you have a Korean operating system. Task #2: Install the ProgramĬaution: This program will only install on a KOREAN operating system. (The download is that big purple button in the center of the page): Head over to Hancom’s Typing Practice homepage (pictured above) to download the program. Sorry Mac and Linux users – you’ll have to dual boot, or use a Windows machine. So, recently, in an effort to increase my Korean language ability while at the same time increasing my Korean typing speed, I downloaded a FREE Korean typing program – and you can too! This blog post will show you how to install: Hancom’s Typing Practice Program (한컴 타자연습).Ĭaution: This program will ONLY work on a Windows computer (thank you Korea).

My English typing speed is around 70-80 words per minute, but my Korean typing speed is lagging around 20 or less (and that’s while looking at the keyboard). I personally think it’s a big pain in the butt to continually look at the keyboard to try to find the right Hangul letters when typing in Korean. Likely you’ve already studied “touch typing” in English, but if you’re studying Korean, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to have the same kind of computer dexterity in Hangul that you already enjoy with the English keyboard? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to keep a typed journal of what you’re learning in Korean? Or just impress friends and family back home with your blog posts or status updates that include Korean? And from smart phones to computers to tablets, typing is a daily activity. This is the 21st century and technology dominates almost everything we do. Touch Typing: typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys.

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