Korean

Thought I should mention for those who don't know, that Korean has an alphabet that make up their characters, so it's not like Chinese that have over 10,000. Basically, if I memorized the alphabet, I could sound out words, just like in English (but easier, since their sounds are always the same and never change like in Spanish, unlike English where an "a" can be pronounced in various ways) but won't know what I'm saying.

here's a link to the alphabet: http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Language/Korean.htm, and this is much more in depth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul