Downloading This Tutorial to Your Computer

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Korean Tutorial Files

http://langintro.com/kintro.zip
This contains all the HTML and image files except for the pictures of the Korean syllables. Unpack it into a directory named kintro

Note: If you have already downloaded these files before 1 January 2003 and are now updating, you must also download the 24 by 24 syllable pictures. This is because the syllable files have been converted to PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format, and because the entire tutorial has been rewritten to comply with Web standards.

Sound files

http://langintro.com/snd.zip
This .zip file expands into a directory called snd, which contains all the sound files for the tutorial.

You should move the snd folder and its contents into the kintro folder which you created when unpacking kintro.zip above.

Syllable Pictures (24 x 24)

http://langintro.com/syll.zip
This .zip file expands into a directory called syll. It, in turn, contains a directory named ltr, which contains the images of the individual letters of the alphabet. The syll directory also contains 19 subdirectories c1 through c19, one for each of the "main consonants."

You should move the syll folder and its contents (which come to a total of some 2,400 files, so you have been warned!) into the kintro folder which you created when unpacking kintro.zip above.

Now that you've downloaded everything you need...

You can start the tutorial by double-clicking the index.htm file in the kintro directory. This will start your browser, and the tutorial will run in your browser exactly as if you were online.

If you can't double-click the index file, or it doesn't start the browser when you do so, then do this:

1. Start your browser
2. Go to the File menu
3. Select the option that lets you open a file.
4. You'll get a dialog box that shows you your file system. Go to the kintro folder and open the index.htm file.

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Syllable Pictures (16 x 16)

http://langintro.com/syll16.zip
These are currently unused in the tutorial, but they're available if you want to use them in a program of your own. This directory is organized in the same fashion as the 24 x 24 images.

Programming Information about the Syllable Images

This section is for those people who wish to write Javascript code to manipulate the syllable images, or wish to understand the code they've downloaded. If you're not a programmer, you may safely ignore this information.

Each syllable's image has the name consisting of the letter s followed by a number which is generated by this formula:

    number = (begin_consonant-1) * 588 + (vowel-1) * 28 + (end_consonant) + 1

followed by the suffix .png

The begin_consonant is the number of the first consonant as shown in the table below:

The vowel number is given according to this table:

The end_consonant is given as shown in this table (if there is no end consonant, use a value of zero).