While those ambitious enough can learn the writing system in about a day, learning the language itself is quite a chore. It most definitely requires some degree if diligence, motivation and skill. According to the first volume of the Integrated Korean textbook series, English speakers require three times as much time to learn these "difficult" languages than to learn "easy" languages, such as French or Spanish, to attain a comparable level of proficiency. (p. 15) The National Virtual Translation Center (NTVC) claims that students pursuing languages that are exceptionally difficult for for native English speakers, such as Korean, Japanese, or Arabic require up to four times as many class hours as languages similar to English for comparable levels of proficiency. Despite the difficulty, hopefully these resources will help you learn Korean.
