So something you might have guessed about me is that I love to learn!! Something else about me is that when I like something – I really REALLY like it and need to learn everything about it. I’m very passionate and enthusiastic about my hobbies and interests. My normally stoic/cold exterior completely changes when I’m talking about stuff I love! My Nonno always got similarly excited when speaking about topics he loved.
One of the things I’m learning right now is Korean! I already speak English, Italian, and can read/write hieroglyphs (I would’ve failed as a scribe because I am awful at drawing the symbols – I’m kinda embarrassed to post my “handwriting” 😂) – so why do I want to learn Korean? It’s because of BTS!! I love their music and want to be able to understand it instead of reading translations!
One thing I noticed when I was learning the Korean alphabet (called Hangeul 한글) was that my name (Nicole) is written “similarly” in both hieroglyphs 𓊹𓌃𓏪 and 한글!!!
𓈖𓇋𓎡𓍯𓃭
니콜
Now, obviously they don’t look similar at all but both are written as “Nikol” in romanized letters! When I was a kid I was insistent that my name in hieroglyphs be written as 𓈖𓇋𓎡𓍯𓃭𓇌 so it would match the English as much as possible – I was stubborn and didn’t care about phonetics.
Learning Korean has been so fun and so interesting (and very difficult) because it is so different from the other languages I know, however, I did like this similarity between hieroglyphs and Korean! It seems like I relate everything back to ancient Egypt in one way or another!
If you read this, 감사합니다!!!! (gam-sa-hab-ni-da AKA Thank You)!