learning korean

Hey faggots.

I'm thinking of learning korean because I already know English and Spanish, and living here in korea town, I thought I might as well learn their language.

I have have a question, how hard is it? I heard it was hard but that doesnt say much. ANyone tried learning it before?

I'm learning it right now, a friend is teaching me, and my American-English manner of speaking makes me terribly clumsy, I say ㅅ as ㅆ and it makes my ㅅㅐ (bird) sound more like ㅆㅐ (strong). The letters make a lot more sense than ones in other languages, but at this time I still find vowels really challenging. I'm learning to write it, though -- the next step is learning to properly type (and pronounce eventually). I try to avoid books with romanized only text -- it's not as easy to recall the pronunciations and appearances of characters otherwise.

I'm just using junk from byki.com atm (oh god please don't beat me up) but I also have the insight of a native speaker with me -- I would sound like an excessively polite and perhaps insincere  foreigner otherwise. I don't expect to be perfect anytime soon, but I'm off to a better start than I was with Spanish, I think.