&gt; It uses an alphabet, although it does have more letters than English and some tone marks.<p>Korean&#x27;s even simpler than that.  It looks a little like Chinese, but the &quot;glyphs&quot; are just groups of consonant-vowel-consonant or null-vowel-consonant, and there&#x27;s basically nothing tonal, just some hard and soft versions of consonants.  I literally learned how to read Korean one afternoon 20 years ago and can still do it.