So what am I saying? You should not read another language with another. In this case, don’t use English to read Korean. When you are learning the alphabet, see it and HEAR it. Do not see it and then see it in English. If you wire yourself like that from the beginning, you will always have this mental order whenever confronted with the language: Korean –> English –> Comprehension. That translating phase is killer. You want Korean –> Comprehension.
In the case of English, it will make it harder to get the pronunciation right since the Korean letters aren’t 100% translatable into English letters.

That’s how you learned your ABCs, that’s how you should learn Hangul (see, didn’t even say Korean ABCs for that, lol). Also, don’t waste time going in order. You will bore yourself. Learn the alphabet while you learn words and their meaning. It will keep you interested and improves your alphabet at the same time.

I’ve had great success with a little program called Anki (http://repose.cx/anki/), but I had to build everything from scratch since the creator only has Japanese cards (and with english, boo!). The only downside is that the online version (which syncs with your desktop one) doesn’t store the sounds you created, so it’s not useful if you like to learn during your commute. If you decide to give the program a spin, lemme know and I’ll send you my introductory flashcards with sound so you can see how much better and easier it is to learn with sounds rather than weird twisting and bending of English (I still don’t know wth weir is supposed to be, lol).

Just one small thing about your second comment sollee, you said “those complicated Korean letters,” which I don’t understand. There’s only 40, which makes learning Korean much easier than Japanese or Chinese, which has thousands of characters. I’m lucky I ended up here rather than there!

I found the best way to learn vocabulary is to do all the work yourself: build your own flashcards, find your own resources, and look for your own way to learn it. Sounds simple, but how many of you rely on a precompiled list that you did not build yourself? Not saying it can’t be done that way, but it’s more inefficient and harder.