Your English is great, thanks for the recommendation to the website I am about to head over there. In terms of learning the writing system for Korean , I would say it is really easy, especially compared to the other Asian languages
I already speak some Japanese and am taking Chinese in school, though I've always wanted to learn Korean. I've studied it a bit, and the previous experience with the other asian languages has helped me significantly. Oddly enough, I'm am American and am somehow terrible at any western language not English. I was OK at Spanish, but not great, and everything else western I tried was awful. XD
Most likely when you speak english or spanish as your mother tongue, japanese or korean will be very difficult to learn. Most likely when you speak japanese or korean as your mother tongue, english or spanish will be very difficult to learn.
It all depends on the language you speak and your skills.
you're right - i also have troubles with the vocab. right pronounciation is the easier task.
it's hard to maintain all the languages. i likely never have the chance to speak japanese and it feels like it's getting real rusty. so i'm deciding to take japanese class again for college (still no korean to choose here...)
I learned Korean at the Defense Language Institute. they categorize languages based on how hard it is to learn assuming that your are a native english speaker. that is why spanish, italian, and portuguese only require 25 weeks. however, I would say that spanish had the biggest dropout rate of all languages because it is hard to get used to listening and understanding(accent, speed) in spanish in only 25 weeks. whereas, category four languages(korean, arabic) had more time to become accustomed
i understand italian english & spanish. I'm getting sick of learning latin based languages with ABC alphabets and wanted to learn either chinese or korean.
Those 3 Asian languages to me, Japanese is the easiest to speak. Then Korean. Mandarin is an old language and pretty hard to speak good. Different tones of words different meanings. Japanese and Korean are both spelling languages. After u learned them for awhile u can speak them, for sure..... And Japanese sounds better than both Mandarin and Korean. And then Mandarin. Korean is not that bad. I just dont know what should people learn Korean for??! Singing Kpop....maybe
@infinera06 Well, if they are interested in the culture or are planning on making a career teaching ESL like I am, then I assume Korean would be useful in order to survive in South Korea.
@infinera06 I don't know why anyone would who isn't going to go work in Korea, be an academic, or take up translation would *need* Korean, but I do know I LOVE the sound of it. With its many vowels, it's like the "Italian" of Asian languages in my opinion, and we all know by popular regular international language surveys, Italian almost always tops the "Most Beautiful Sounding Language In the World" lists.
@utubesqueeze Beauty is in the ear of the beholder? To me, Korean sounds quite hard...sounds like the speaker is angry or wants to pick a fight. The most fluidy Asian language to me is Japanese. And I think French sounds better than Italian. Italian sounds very similar to Spanish.
@infinera06 i am korean an .. idk how the hell it sounds angry... since you are basically adding a "?" in the end of every sentence..it kinda sounds like you are asking something or whiny.. but not angry...
I think korean is indeed a bit harder to learn since some hangul different characters are the equivalent to different consonant. But Korean is pretty easy to read~ I learned in just one day (i was very bored that day at the library :P )! While as to speak Its easier for me to learn japanese, since japanese sounds are all the same as the ones in Spanish : ) But it all depends on the interest and eagerness of the person to learn.
Its kind of like Greek in the way that you don't have pronouns. Not that you don't have it, you don't need to say it. Like if you were to say "Im going out" Its just "going out" And that might sound difficult to actually get, but the only thing you have to do is conjigate the verb. Its cool how languages have all these similliar and sometimes even small hints of similiarities.
@astraelios@astraelios "-ka" makes the sentence interrogative, ie. you're asking. "-desu" makes no difference in meaning but it is ALWAYS used when you're speaking to someone you need to have courtesy to, eg) teacher, customer, someone older than you, and someone you are not close to. In Korean, -desu is -nida (formal) or -yo (kind of informal and childish).
@astraelios "-wa" is added to a noun to emphasize it. for example, I don't eat the bread. in this sentence, whether YOU are the one that don't eat bread or it is the Bread that you don't eat, it is the same in English. but, in Japanese and Korean words like -wa make that difference. otherwise, -wa is normally used to just make a noun the subject. In Korean, -wa is -neun or -eun.
I have studied chinese, japanese and korean, in that order. And I believe Chinese is the hardest language because they rely only on caligraphic symbols while Japanese, uses hiragana and katakana which is easier to relate to.
Yeah, Chinese is indeed hard to learn. It's annoying to remember the Hanzi. I'm a native Chinese and ironically, I suck at Chinese. I can read the Hanzi, but I just can't remember how to write them. Also, there is tons of 成语 and annoying 'old' Hanzi. While most think you only need to learn the basic Hanzi, the natives use lots of complicated Hanzi sometimes. Japanese is easier (for me that is) only because I can read the Kanji.
I took japanese in HS, for 3 years, it only became tough when I started losing interest. Now I regret forgetting it. It stuck so easily to me. I learned like 40 kanji in addition to hiragana and katakana. Now I would love to relearn japanese and add Chinese and korean to my list.
Asia rocks. Always had a natural interest in Asian culture, art, music, etc. In conclusion, Korean looks very interesting, if not similar to japanese in that they have their own writing system.
Haha so true. I've only seen a few videos with a foreigner being able to speak Chinese properly. Much fewer is able to speak Cantonese as good as the natives. It very rare to find someone that can speak Chinese as good as the natives. People think I'm ignorant and say there are foreigners that speak better Chinese than a native lol. They forgot there are different dialects, so the foreign ones who speak 'better' actually doesn't.
Pronouncing Korean/Japanese sounds are very easy. Reading Korean/Japanese is very easy too (minus kanji). It took me less than a day to teach myself how to read and write Korean. What I find not easy about Korean and Japanese is the grammar. Although I speak a Sino-Tibetan language, I find some things in Mandarin hard to pronounce but the tones are easy (since I speak a tonal language). Chinese grammar is a lot easier too, but the characters doesn't come easy, but I enjoy writing them.
Guys, you need to be objective. People like me need opinion on what to learn. But objective, not I prefer. I am Greek. If people ask me whether Greek is easy I'll tell them no. Of course for me it is, but people don't seek for that info. Duh! D:
Korean is way easier than Japanese and Chinese because you dont need to learn numerous Chinese letters (Kanji). But I dont like korean letters so much...cauz they not cool...
i can speak up to 6 languages and still think about adding korean..i don't want to brag. just because i said i can speak em doesn't mean i do fluently in all 6 -i'm still learning and u never stop learn
since i'm interested in learning different lang. in my opinion it really does help a lot if you know jap. since the grammar is kinda similar.sometimes korean feels like a mix of chinese and japanese to me xD
@crenmao It's more like Korean and Japanese sound a lot like Chinese because these two languages borrow a lot (and I mean a lot) from the Chinese language.
@crenmao 5 languages here, and always open to learning. I feel like Korean, the hardest thing for me is to definitely learn all the vocab. While Korean grammar is similar to Japanese, vocab is based off of more Northeastern Chinese Dialect but uses their own system. It's a bit of a pain to learn vocab/pronunciation differences, but not too bad.
Well, I'm gonna work on being professional in my 5 (above conversational level, below professional atm) languages.
@ppshchik I totally disagree. Korean script (Hangul) can be learnt in a few hours and like some languages, e.g. German, the sounds are invariant therefore making the pronounciation highly regular. Thus, within a few hours anyone can read out aloud Korean even if they do not understand it. This is not possible in Chinese and NOT Japanese. Chinese grammar is very analytic making it similar to English. So, the elephant in the room is Japanese! Therefore, Japanese > Chinese > Korean.
@utubesqueeze Sure, learning the alphabet and script can be simple to learn, but then there's piecing each other together to form a word, into a sentence, the grammar, etc. etc.
I have been learning Japanese for some time and I can read katakana, hiragana and even Kanji fairly good. The grammar is indeed a lot different from English so it just means that you´ll have to study harder in order to have your brain assimilating the language.
I have studied Korean for like 2 days and I know how to read Hangul and some basic sentences.
@ZeinW By studying the language´s grammar I can see that the similarities that exist between this language and Japanese it´s for example you want to say I also like apples "私もりんごが好きです" so you have the particle "も" which is always placed after the word you intend to affect, therefore putting it after watashi it´s affecting yourself, causing it to mean "I also" or "Even I" In Korean this happens as well but of course the particles are different.
@ZeinW Also just like my sentence "watashi mo ringo ga suki desu" it was written in Polite Japanese. In Korean there´s also the polite way to say and the informal way to say. In Chinese however the grammar is very straightforward and English alike. There´s no alphabet script though, unless you´re counting with Pinyin which is the Romanized form of Chinese. They used only Hanzi so unlike Japanese you´ll have to learn more characters for daily life.
@ZeinW I also don´t recommend to study Chinese on your own (specially if your using free sources on the web) because of the tones. You say the tone wrongly and the sentence has a whole different level, I think that the tones and the characters will be what will take most of the time out of you to study.
@ZeinW I also don´t recommend to study Chinese on your own (specially if your using free sources on the web) because of the tones. You say the tone wrongly and the sentence has a whole different level, I think that the tones and the characters will be what will take most of the time out of you to study. So yes I don´t know if it should be Japanese>Chinese>Korean or Chinese>Japanese>Korean but I´d say that Korean will be the one you´ll reach faster the conversational level
I started learning Japanese before Korean, I found that picking up korean was significantly easier.
Now the comment about french I can't really agree on, I cant say for sure, but I believe there are MUCH more exepctions in grammar in french than in Korean
Korea is a copycat country, they use Chinese Taichi as their natioan flag. noobs!! A country without culture heritage but steal from China and Japan.
How dare u fucking Korean say that your noob language is the most precise language in the world?!!! 60% of Korean words are originated from Chinese, check out the word "prince", "library" in both Chinese and Korean. Sounds almost same! FUCK U KOREAN
Korea is a copycat country, they use Chinese Taichi as their natioan flag. noobs!! A country without culture heritage but steal from China and Japan.
How dare u fucking Korean say that your noob language is the most precise language in the world?!!! 60% of Korean words are originated from Chinese, check out the word "prince", "library" in both Chinese and Korean. Sounds almost same! FUCK U KOREAN
i decided to learn korean because your alphabet is not difficult ..after studying two terms japanese (i like japanese btw) so after a while i cannot improve my language by reading ..so thank you for info i really appreciate
Those are rather suffix, not punctuation marks. Punctuation marks are for logical structures, hence they are never a part of any words in any languages. :D
@flakito018 that is bullshit man, japanese has nothing to do with spanish...the only thing that these two languages have in common is pronunciation...plus you know why spain loves japan??? because spanish and japanese people suck at speaking english(true fact man), anyways in japan nobody cares about spanish they care about english!!! (true fact again)...anyways I love japan, I love south korea and well about spain...fuck SPAIN!!! hahahaha
Aww, how cute. Spanish in an Indo-European, Romance language. Japanese is from the Japonic language family. Which is an isolated family or according to some linguists, distantly related to the Altaic language family. Both Japonic and Altaic languages are as far from Indo-European languages as it gets. I will say that again in simple English for you: Spanish is in no way related to Japanese, retarded peasant.
I shouldn't have wasted those two minutes on you. You probably have horse shit for brains.. :(. I pity you. And it is everything but similar. In Japan they would nearly die laughing at you, and then be disgusted by the thought that someone could even think their beautiful language and your farmer language are similar.
@flakito018 japanese and spanish similar? are you fucking high? did your mom drop you when you came out her pussy? estas mal de la cabeza idiota cerebro de mierda
@2tooful dile a tu la putita de tu madre, que deje las calles ya, que es hora de hacer algo por su vida...y a ti maldito bastardo..decirte que eres GILIPOLLAS y en mayúsculas, asi que te peten...y no la sigas comiendo con tuss putos comentarios de mierda....madito soplapollaaaas !! jajaja :D byeeeeee marica !
Korean is technically easier to learn than Chinese and Japanese. However, given that there is no F, Z, or "Sh" sound, I wouldn't put the language on a pedestal. Seriously, Korea should do what Japan has done and add extra characters to their written language. There's something wrong when coffee is pronounced "Cuppy".
@alHalwima Korean does have the "sh" sound in it. Though I generally agree with you in that they should add extra characters to their written language; the world has "expanded" so much that simply substituting a sound not existing in Korean phonetics with something else is eh... I dunno.
@alHalwima dude add extra characters? it's better than Japanese saying Cohee when it's supposed to be Coffee. and Korean has more pronunciations than Japanese, so I really don't know what the heck it is you're trying to say. Japanese is pretty inefficient in that it has such limited amount of pronunciations
@tokee1234567 Korean has seven vowels as opposed to Japanese's five, I will admit that. But Japanese has a lot more consonants and is better at using them too. Again, Korean has NO letters 'Z', 'F', 'V', and no definite 'TS' sound. They also screw up in the same way you say the Japanese do by putting unneeded vowels at the end of words, namely the hangul for "eu". Now, which sounds closer to "fire the laser"?
and japanese doesn't even sound as accurate in that sentence as korean does..
most westerners understand korean-accented english better than a japanese accent because at least Korean has a lot of ending consonants, but for Japanese your words doesn't usually end with a consonant, but have to end with vowels.
most koreans have very good japanese pronunciation wheras it takes years for a japanese person to just speak korean with a good pronunciation
@tokee1234567 Whatever, troll. I have little interest anyways of mastering the language of a country that still has the draft, too many Christian Fundamentalist cults, lack of freedom of speech, and engages in extensive historical revisionism.
@alHalwima ignorant jerk. your country has a horrible government and a crappy way of denying your own history. and also, the fact that japanese needs to use chinese to write decent literature and cannot do it by just using their own letters just shows me how incompetent the language is. so inefficient. why they made their own letters if they still need to use chinese letters still baffles me, but yea you're a troll too
@tokee1234567 Yuhuh. I'm not an apologist for anyone, not even America. Difference is, you're waving the "Korea is better than everyone" flag. I refuse to believe that a country less than half the size of Utah somehow contributes more to the rest of the world than any other. Same with Japan, America, Britain, France, or any other country.
@alHalwima you're the one who mocked the Korean languaged and put the nuance of saying that the japanese language was somehow better than Korean. dude. you're the one who started it. did i even say Korea contributes to the world or anything? stop making up excuses. I never talked about those sort of things and you're just using them to cover your lame arguments
@tokee1234567 I am going to reiterate: Korean has NO letters F or Z! I don't care how more experienced the people there are with their own language than "the West". If your language refuses to make an honest attempt at even sounding close to foreign names, places, and ideas, it is LIMITED!
Apeurika for Africa!
Peuranseu for France!
I, as an American, would normally wonder what the hell Koreans would be talking about if I didn't know the translation.
@alHalwima so? Korea doesn't have 2 consonants you're talking about while Japan lacks like 10 vowels that Korean has + Japan lacks ending consonants except for n and t at the end of their words. who the hell cares?? your language is the one that's limited. compared to Japanese, Korean has more pronunciation. it's a fact
of course you wouldn't know. hell would you even know Japanese without translation if you were a full caucasian american? try thinking before typing your crap on the computer.
@tokee1234567 I'm...I'm just not having this discussion anymore. Period. I don't even plan to go to South Korea until the two halves get their little war over with.
I am a Korean American and fluent in Korean.. Korean language does have pronouns. example : I = Na or Jer You = Ner or Dang Shin He = Geu She = Geu Nye We = Woo Ri They = Geu Deul It = Geu Gut This = Ee Gut That = Jer Gut More details can be found searching "Korean Pronouns" on internet If you can find Korean MEETUP groups around your city/town, it's a good way to learn Korean language/culture.
Do you know that my dictionary has more than 10 pages to explain the word 'take' ? For foreigners, The most difficult thing in learning english is that there are so many english words which has completely different meanings. For example, BRASS 1. metal 2.money 3.thick face 4. high officials 5.whore ,Indigence-indigene-indigent-indignant-indign-indignation-indiginity-....
BLAH BLAH! EVERY PEOPLE SAYS LEARNING MY LANGUAGE IS HARDEST! BUT IT DEPEND HOW ARE YOU FAST LEARNER OR IS THOSE LANGUAGE HAVE SOME SIMILARITY IN YOUR LANGUAGE OR LANGUAGE YOU LEARNED IN THE PAST. AND I HAVE HEARD IT IS EASIER LEARN JAPANESE, KOREAN TO SOUTH EAST AND CENTRAL ASIAN THAN EUROPEAN AND LEARNING ENGLISH EASIER TO EUROPEAN THAN ASIAN.THAT IS MORE LIKELY DIFFERENCE OF CULTURE BACKGROUND
@Hananim91 koreans are shallow people who love making lies(you are one of them),korean language is a shallow language which is as simple and monotonic as the sound of animal
@1peculiar no, we aren't as thick as the Chinese who claim other countries' history through the Northeast Project. (search on wiki) - who cares about you thinking its a shallow language? It's said to be the most efficient and "scientific".
@Superstarrockmetal hey stop trolling you kimchi,korean language sounds like animal barking,koreans can't produce any nice literatures because of their primitive linguistic system
@1peculiar you just showed people how dumb bass you are lol
we have lots of wonderful literatures that you guys even can not translate. hahahah because korean language is so immature and beautiful language that you cant understand and translate. Korean (= Hangul) is designated as a UNESCO world heritage you idiot. Just let you know you moron :p
well japanese and english were my first languages, so korean came easy to learn to me, i'm still learning but im moving fairly quickly so i agree with some of that...but i also think it depends on the person, while someone could say it was easy for me because i know japanese, i think its easy more so because i just have a nack for languages so yea
If your chinese/ know chinese and you are starting to learn japanese, you already mastered kanji because kanji is made up of chinese symbols. It took me 2 high school years to read/write/speak japanese.
Out of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, I definitely find Korean to be the easiest, so I guess they're just grouped together so they don't have so many categories. But really, I learned a great deal in just one year in Korea, despite my teacher being a horrible language teacher. He didn't even teach us any sentence structure and we only learned the infinitives of words for some strange reason... Oh well.
I have looked and compared between Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and I think Chinese is harder than Japanese in some ways, and Chinese is easier than Japanese in other ways, same thing can be said about Japanese....Korean however, seems to be in the middle....I think that Korean language has too many different vowel sounds and there are a few I have a difficult time pronouncing
hey guys please give me an information: do north korean and south korean people speak the same language? in south korea they speak the hangul...what about in north korea? tahnks a lot
@cuchinigno North Korea peaks Korean as well. Only difference is that North korea omitted the usage of Chinese words in the Korean language while South Korea uses a mix of Chinese and Korean words to form hangul.
@Azurestories thanks a lot! can u please tell me how i say "how are you?" in korean? in every lesson here on youtube i see how to say "my name is", "what's your name?", "where are you from?" etc... but not "how are you?"... that should be a very used question in every language, i think in korean too... please help me (both with simbols and phonetic if u can), thanks =)
@Azurestories thanks guy, u have been very kind, i didn't know annyon ha seh yo was also the translation of "how are you?", i thought it was only to say "hello/hi", or "good morning" etc...well i bought a 400 pages korean book to learn this wonderful language, u hope u helped me and i say, of course u helped! that's y if i need your help again to study that book, i'll immidiately ask to you, ;) thanks again
whats your first language?the grammer of japanese is too difficult for english-speaker to learn.i think the chinese would be much easier becasue of the simple grammer system.moreover,its grammer is kind of similar to english grammer.i strongly suggest people learn chinese.china is rising quickly.the total GDP of china is expected to exceed that of the USA in 17-20 years.in contrast,the gdp for japan has stopped from growing for 20 years.the total gdp of japan was reduced by 5.2% in 2008.
Now comment no. 2: I'm fluent in English, however my native language is Croatian (it's in Europe btw) and that was my biggest advantage in learning Japanese.We can say a Japanese word fluently even if we didn't understand what it means. I mastered both Hiragana and Katakana and now I'm going for Kanji. I find Korean words to be harder to comprehend and even though I've occupied myself with Korean songs and dramas, I can only recognize 1-2 words per sentence. But I can read Hangul pretty well ^^
I'm portuguese. I speak portuguese, spanish, french and english. I've been learning japanese, mandarin and korean, korean its the easiest one, maybe because i started korean after japanese and mandarim.
Asian languages are not difficult, but you have to work and practice hard. Their "simple" because the grammar its really easy. In port./spanish/french so many verbs are irregular, most people find ir difficult to learn.
In japanese and mandarim the difficult part are the thousands of caracters.
@dekasla and the pronounciation in mandarim its also difficult.
Its not impossible. You just need to study and if possible live there, i'll be moving to japan in a few months and after that china and i plan to go to korea as well.....
Very nice video. I would actually like to learn how to speak both Korean and Japanese, and to me Korea seem easier to learn, especially if you think about the writing system. The speaking part I'm not so sure about, though. I am a native Norwegian speaker and I also speak English fluently and I am learning how to speak Dutch.
@mariesu92 Japanese its really easy to speak because the sounds are really basic: stockkanji . com /images/ HowToWrite/ HowTo_HiraganaChart . gif (thats it, those are all the sounds they have)
The grammar its easy, the most difficult part its the particles and keigo (polite language) and of course the 2000 chinese caracters.
third, people learning korean don't normally entertain themselves with dialects from different rural regions of korea. when i came to canada and learned english, did my teachers teach me all the different english accents in the world? no. put things into perspective, and open your horizons.
of course "language learning takes a long time," i'm not saying it doesn't
but you shouldn't go around saying that it just can't be a fun and EASY process.
first, king saejong founded hanguel, which is KOREAN. your differentiation between hanguel and korean was totally immature. that's like saying phonetics and writing of english are two totally different LANGUAGES. what, people are going to learn how to speak korean but not how to write or read hanguel?
second, korean has pronunciation rules to be learned. EVERY language has pronunciation rules to be learned, your statement is banal. however, in my opinion, korean pronunciation is easy to learn
How can you say 이에요 and 입니까? aren't words but merely punctuation marks? This is totally false.
이다 = is/are
Learning Korean is not impossible but it requires dedication and study. You are trying to oversimply the learning process in order to attract customers. It is impossible to learn Korean "overnight". It takes a considerable amount of
Your English is great, thanks for the recommendation to the website I am about to head over there. In terms of learning the writing system for Korean , I would say it is really easy, especially compared to the other Asian languages
Littlepauldsgo 3 days ago
Wikipedia: Thanks!
Acoontey 2 weeks ago
Blue (English) = 蓝 (Chinese)
蓝 (Chinese = 青 (Japanese)
青 (Chinese) = Green (English)
Therefore, Green = Blue
(o_o)
RarestName 1 month ago 4
@RarestName actually, 青 is not exactly green, 綠 is green in chinese, 青 is more like blue green
chengda85 8 hours ago
I already speak some Japanese and am taking Chinese in school, though I've always wanted to learn Korean. I've studied it a bit, and the previous experience with the other asian languages has helped me significantly. Oddly enough, I'm am American and am somehow terrible at any western language not English. I was OK at Spanish, but not great, and everything else western I tried was awful. XD
GoldenSymphany 1 month ago
try to watch this (little manila in seoul)
zrian0119 1 month ago
it's defends to people...
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Most likely when you speak english or spanish as your mother tongue, japanese or korean will be very difficult to learn. Most likely when you speak japanese or korean as your mother tongue, english or spanish will be very difficult to learn.
It all depends on the language you speak and your skills.
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seiryuukun 1 month ago
you're right - i also have troubles with the vocab. right pronounciation is the easier task.
it's hard to maintain all the languages. i likely never have the chance to speak japanese and it feels like it's getting real rusty. so i'm deciding to take japanese class again for college (still no korean to choose here...)
gl in getting fluent in your languages ^^
crenmao 1 month ago
Thanks mom for being Korean! :O Can speak it fluently since I was a little girl! :3
Irudiar 1 month ago
I learned Korean at the Defense Language Institute. they categorize languages based on how hard it is to learn assuming that your are a native english speaker. that is why spanish, italian, and portuguese only require 25 weeks. however, I would say that spanish had the biggest dropout rate of all languages because it is hard to get used to listening and understanding(accent, speed) in spanish in only 25 weeks. whereas, category four languages(korean, arabic) had more time to become accustomed
dragonzord413 2 months ago
i think all 3 languages are beautifull because i live in a country with a serieus ..ugly language...---> dutch literally no 'soft' words
JellyAsian 3 months ago
I love the Korean script. It looks cool!
AthosAmo 3 months ago
@AthosAmo they look like squares and circles... how is that cool..
86005537 2 months ago
@86005537 Because it's unique and looks like a maze.
AthosAmo 2 months ago
great a website. gonna check it out.
i understand italian english & spanish. I'm getting sick of learning latin based languages with ABC alphabets and wanted to learn either chinese or korean.
Trillasecond 3 months ago
korean sounds ugly,so it's out of choice from the beginning . Chinese or Japanese sounds beautiful, so even if it's hard ,worth learning it.
Fiestoallein 3 months ago
Those 3 Asian languages to me, Japanese is the easiest to speak. Then Korean. Mandarin is an old language and pretty hard to speak good. Different tones of words different meanings. Japanese and Korean are both spelling languages. After u learned them for awhile u can speak them, for sure..... And Japanese sounds better than both Mandarin and Korean. And then Mandarin. Korean is not that bad. I just dont know what should people learn Korean for??! Singing Kpop....maybe
Chipchopshopvince 3 months ago
I question how much of this difficulty, stems primarily from the native language, or language tree of the speaker.
TheReasonWhyGuy 4 months ago
i think chinese is more easy than korean
93queenv 4 months ago
Are u sure??of course Korean language is difficult for americn,
tsukaharashin 4 months ago
Are you kiddingme
tsukaharashin 4 months ago
Why would anyone want or need to learn Korean?
infinera06 4 months ago
@infinera06 Well, if they are interested in the culture or are planning on making a career teaching ESL like I am, then I assume Korean would be useful in order to survive in South Korea.
MissSecretRage 4 months ago 3
@infinera06 I don't know why anyone would who isn't going to go work in Korea, be an academic, or take up translation would *need* Korean, but I do know I LOVE the sound of it. With its many vowels, it's like the "Italian" of Asian languages in my opinion, and we all know by popular regular international language surveys, Italian almost always tops the "Most Beautiful Sounding Language In the World" lists.
utubesqueeze 3 months ago
@utubesqueeze Beauty is in the ear of the beholder? To me, Korean sounds quite hard...sounds like the speaker is angry or wants to pick a fight. The most fluidy Asian language to me is Japanese. And I think French sounds better than Italian. Italian sounds very similar to Spanish.
infinera06 3 months ago
@infinera06 Mandarin sounds worse than Korean in the "angry" department. Korean (and a little of Cantonese) sounds slightly whiny at times.
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@infinera06 i am korean an .. idk how the hell it sounds angry... since you are basically adding a "?" in the end of every sentence..it kinda sounds like you are asking something or whiny.. but not angry...
ThePrettieminnie 3 months ago
@infinera06 just because they like learning languages... i know that's why I want to learn it. why should there always be an ultimate motive?
MystiqueBliss 2 months ago
im korean but... yes, korean is really really hard. especially for Westerner.
but, Hangul is really really easy :D Hangul is korean alphabet
yanss0 5 months ago 2
@yanss0
Lol, I'm Chinese and Korean is hard for me. I don't really understand Korean, kind of confusing.
Samhiuys 5 months ago
Korean is really not that hard.
afinitimyob 5 months ago
i have sloppy korean when i sing and nobody know what i sing in korean
inachu 5 months ago
I think korean is indeed a bit harder to learn since some hangul different characters are the equivalent to different consonant. But Korean is pretty easy to read~ I learned in just one day (i was very bored that day at the library :P )! While as to speak Its easier for me to learn japanese, since japanese sounds are all the same as the ones in Spanish : ) But it all depends on the interest and eagerness of the person to learn.
veggievegetarian 5 months ago
Its kind of like Greek in the way that you don't have pronouns. Not that you don't have it, you don't need to say it. Like if you were to say "Im going out" Its just "going out" And that might sound difficult to actually get, but the only thing you have to do is conjigate the verb. Its cool how languages have all these similliar and sometimes even small hints of similiarities.
anime0pop 6 months ago
that category is for English native speaker.
riehappyrie 6 months ago
you dont say i he she it they!?!?! how DO you tell someone he has a nice car?!
bozy99 6 months ago
Fin and Korean are similar just like Turkish and Korean
JHtakeshi 7 months ago
Ok, so I want to know, why do the koreans and japanese use punctuations, as "ka", "desu", "wa" etc...
astraelios 7 months ago
@astraelios @astraelios "-ka" makes the sentence interrogative, ie. you're asking. "-desu" makes no difference in meaning but it is ALWAYS used when you're speaking to someone you need to have courtesy to, eg) teacher, customer, someone older than you, and someone you are not close to. In Korean, -desu is -nida (formal) or -yo (kind of informal and childish).
vkvkvk1219 6 months ago
@astraelios "-wa" is added to a noun to emphasize it. for example, I don't eat the bread. in this sentence, whether YOU are the one that don't eat bread or it is the Bread that you don't eat, it is the same in English. but, in Japanese and Korean words like -wa make that difference. otherwise, -wa is normally used to just make a noun the subject. In Korean, -wa is -neun or -eun.
vkvkvk1219 6 months ago
@vkvkvk1219 Thank you for your reply. But ie. why is wa added in kore wa, sore wa, dore wa? What does wa amount to?
astraelios 6 months ago
@astraelios kore, sore, dore are also noun, so what I explained applies to them. I don't see why you are wondering about them.
vkvkvk1219 6 months ago
@astraelios
Wa in Chinese is translated as 是. Which if you translated in English, it means 'is'.
Kore wa - This is
Sore wa - That is
Samhiuys 5 months ago
I have studied chinese, japanese and korean, in that order. And I believe Chinese is the hardest language because they rely only on caligraphic symbols while Japanese, uses hiragana and katakana which is easier to relate to.
astraelios 7 months ago
@astraelios
Yeah, Chinese is indeed hard to learn. It's annoying to remember the Hanzi. I'm a native Chinese and ironically, I suck at Chinese. I can read the Hanzi, but I just can't remember how to write them. Also, there is tons of 成语 and annoying 'old' Hanzi. While most think you only need to learn the basic Hanzi, the natives use lots of complicated Hanzi sometimes. Japanese is easier (for me that is) only because I can read the Kanji.
Samhiuys 5 months ago
@astraelios
Chinese languages are "hard" only because of the archaic writing system.
If you're only learning to speak them, then they are the easiest, because they have no inflection at all :)
StarSpawn06 4 months ago
I love Japanese but it is hard an I'm so confuse with Hirigana and Kanji. So I wanted to learn Korean instead.
ProChewer460 7 months ago
Filipino can learn English easily. lol
killlerzoo 7 months ago
I took japanese in HS, for 3 years, it only became tough when I started losing interest. Now I regret forgetting it. It stuck so easily to me. I learned like 40 kanji in addition to hiragana and katakana. Now I would love to relearn japanese and add Chinese and korean to my list.
Asia rocks. Always had a natural interest in Asian culture, art, music, etc. In conclusion, Korean looks very interesting, if not similar to japanese in that they have their own writing system.
terran236 7 months ago
chinese is very easy in gramar but hard in speaking for people from english speaking countries.
159357123100 7 months ago
@159357123100
Haha so true. I've only seen a few videos with a foreigner being able to speak Chinese properly. Much fewer is able to speak Cantonese as good as the natives. It very rare to find someone that can speak Chinese as good as the natives. People think I'm ignorant and say there are foreigners that speak better Chinese than a native lol. They forgot there are different dialects, so the foreign ones who speak 'better' actually doesn't.
Samhiuys 5 months ago
Japanese is hard because of verb conjugation, characters that have at least two sounds, speach according to status.
Japanese is easy because of pronunciation... um... Yeah that's all.
Apeshavenotails2 7 months ago
men i have a hard time learning this language.. huhuhu im going to cry!!!!... i like English much better..
gheeann22 7 months ago
what language you will find its hard or easy to learn ?? no absolute answer on that question but surely its depends on who you are~ enough said~
kurosagi24 7 months ago
I think Korean language is the easiest and shallowest
ValianTiger 7 months ago
Pronouncing Korean/Japanese sounds are very easy. Reading Korean/Japanese is very easy too (minus kanji). It took me less than a day to teach myself how to read and write Korean. What I find not easy about Korean and Japanese is the grammar. Although I speak a Sino-Tibetan language, I find some things in Mandarin hard to pronounce but the tones are easy (since I speak a tonal language). Chinese grammar is a lot easier too, but the characters doesn't come easy, but I enjoy writing them.
ASilverPeony 8 months ago
Guys, you need to be objective. People like me need opinion on what to learn. But objective, not I prefer. I am Greek. If people ask me whether Greek is easy I'll tell them no. Of course for me it is, but people don't seek for that info. Duh! D:
xMentalMaiden 8 months ago
Korean is way easier than Japanese and Chinese because you dont need to learn numerous Chinese letters (Kanji). But I dont like korean letters so much...cauz they not cool...
Silverstein1883 8 months ago
chinese is easy~~~
dcfefs 8 months ago
Japanese is easy -.- Chinese is hard.
English is easy
Korean is super easy for me -_-
ShionElpihasLevi 8 months ago
Korean somehow like cantonese.....
revolutionist37 8 months ago
@revolutionist37 somewhat. since korean borrowed pre mandarin chinese words. and cantonese is older than mandarin.
Trcls 4 months ago
Anything you are really willing to put the work into and learn will be much more easy than something your just stinging along.
For me, Japanese is a breeze. For others, it kills them!
So, if you're really willing to learn and really have the want than learning anything wont be a problem.
At least for me it's worked out so far!!
manpants117 8 months ago
i can speak up to 6 languages and still think about adding korean..i don't want to brag. just because i said i can speak em doesn't mean i do fluently in all 6 -i'm still learning and u never stop learn
since i'm interested in learning different lang. in my opinion it really does help a lot if you know jap. since the grammar is kinda similar.sometimes korean feels like a mix of chinese and japanese to me xD
and french helps with laotian and vise versa
know what? german is the horror xD
crenmao 8 months ago 16
@crenmao It's more like Korean and Japanese sound a lot like Chinese because these two languages borrow a lot (and I mean a lot) from the Chinese language.
sojourner1189 4 months ago
@crenmao 5 languages here, and always open to learning. I feel like Korean, the hardest thing for me is to definitely learn all the vocab. While Korean grammar is similar to Japanese, vocab is based off of more Northeastern Chinese Dialect but uses their own system. It's a bit of a pain to learn vocab/pronunciation differences, but not too bad.
Well, I'm gonna work on being professional in my 5 (above conversational level, below professional atm) languages.
seaking020492 1 month ago
WOW ure gay !
rokkon976 9 months ago
I'm Chinese and Chinese alphabets are really hard but the grammatical structure is pretty easy. In terms of difficulty i'd say
Korean > Chinese > Japanese. Japanese is easy if you know both Chinese (Kanji) and English (Katakana).
ppshchik 9 months ago
@ppshchik
That's true. Korean is harder for me than Japanese and I'm also Chinese.
Samhiuys 5 months ago
@ppshchik I totally disagree. Korean script (Hangul) can be learnt in a few hours and like some languages, e.g. German, the sounds are invariant therefore making the pronounciation highly regular. Thus, within a few hours anyone can read out aloud Korean even if they do not understand it. This is not possible in Chinese and NOT Japanese. Chinese grammar is very analytic making it similar to English. So, the elephant in the room is Japanese! Therefore, Japanese > Chinese > Korean.
utubesqueeze 3 months ago 12
@utubesqueeze Sure, learning the alphabet and script can be simple to learn, but then there's piecing each other together to form a word, into a sentence, the grammar, etc. etc.
I'm Korean btw :P
wajalama 3 months ago
@utubesqueeze Not to mention that Korean words are usually harder to pronounce compared to regular Japanese words
wajalama 3 months ago 2
I have been learning Japanese for some time and I can read katakana, hiragana and even Kanji fairly good. The grammar is indeed a lot different from English so it just means that you´ll have to study harder in order to have your brain assimilating the language.
I have studied Korean for like 2 days and I know how to read Hangul and some basic sentences.
ZeinW 1 month ago
@ZeinW By studying the language´s grammar I can see that the similarities that exist between this language and Japanese it´s for example you want to say I also like apples "私もりんごが好きです" so you have the particle "も" which is always placed after the word you intend to affect, therefore putting it after watashi it´s affecting yourself, causing it to mean "I also" or "Even I" In Korean this happens as well but of course the particles are different.
ZeinW 1 month ago
@ZeinW Also just like my sentence "watashi mo ringo ga suki desu" it was written in Polite Japanese. In Korean there´s also the polite way to say and the informal way to say. In Chinese however the grammar is very straightforward and English alike. There´s no alphabet script though, unless you´re counting with Pinyin which is the Romanized form of Chinese. They used only Hanzi so unlike Japanese you´ll have to learn more characters for daily life.
ZeinW 1 month ago
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@ZeinW I also don´t recommend to study Chinese on your own (specially if your using free sources on the web) because of the tones. You say the tone wrongly and the sentence has a whole different level, I think that the tones and the characters will be what will take most of the time out of you to study.
ZeinW 1 month ago
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@ZeinW I also don´t recommend to study Chinese on your own (specially if your using free sources on the web) because of the tones. You say the tone wrongly and the sentence has a whole different level, I think that the tones and the characters will be what will take most of the time out of you to study. So yes I don´t know if it should be Japanese>Chinese>Korean or Chinese>Japanese>Korean but I´d say that Korean will be the one you´ll reach faster the conversational level
ZeinW 1 month ago
@ZeinW what i got out of that through listening to japanese songs is
I am ___ ___ __ ____ war
BioformerCorviz 2 weeks ago
@utubesqueeze Totally, I literally learned how to write Hangul in an hour..
Hamppzah 3 weeks ago
Korean, Japan- Study one first, then the other is very easy,(bit similar atmosphere)
1221Kyra 9 months ago
@yxs19882828 Bitch HATER !!
talkingTOM101 9 months ago
Def... GAY!!!
MrDontmakemecomeover 10 months ago
I started learning Japanese before Korean, I found that picking up korean was significantly easier.
Now the comment about french I can't really agree on, I cant say for sure, but I believe there are MUCH more exepctions in grammar in french than in Korean
seeddx 10 months ago
nice hair
ssips720 10 months ago
I'm pretty sure Korean have pronouns...
저
그
그녀
저희
그들.
Neuro689 10 months ago
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Korea is a copycat country, they use Chinese Taichi as their natioan flag. noobs!! A country without culture heritage but steal from China and Japan.
How dare u fucking Korean say that your noob language is the most precise language in the world?!!! 60% of Korean words are originated from Chinese, check out the word "prince", "library" in both Chinese and Korean. Sounds almost same! FUCK U KOREAN
yxs19882828 10 months ago
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Korea is a copycat country, they use Chinese Taichi as their natioan flag. noobs!! A country without culture heritage but steal from China and Japan.
How dare u fucking Korean say that your noob language is the most precise language in the world?!!! 60% of Korean words are originated from Chinese, check out the word "prince", "library" in both Chinese and Korean. Sounds almost same! FUCK U KOREAN
yxs19882828 10 months ago
WHAT? NO I HE SHE?? MADNESS!!!
...so how do I call a person as "he"?
PwnageSubs 10 months ago
@PwnageSubs Wtf are u talking about?
Nyugguh 10 months ago
@Nyugguh 1:35
PwnageSubs 10 months ago
@PwnageSubs 그 사람 " That person"
komabsu 10 months ago
btw i think i will love Korean too ..sounds nice to hear :)
kelRapunzel 10 months ago
i decided to learn korean because your alphabet is not difficult ..after studying two terms japanese (i like japanese btw) so after a while i cannot improve my language by reading ..so thank you for info i really appreciate
kelRapunzel 10 months ago
how easy would it be for a tibeto-burman speaking person to learn korean?
haha no offence but u look like my uncle xD
TheMetalbleeder 11 months ago
:D
Those are rather suffix, not punctuation marks. Punctuation marks are for logical structures, hence they are never a part of any words in any languages. :D
nonaCbarC 11 months ago
@flakito018 that is bullshit man, japanese has nothing to do with spanish...the only thing that these two languages have in common is pronunciation...plus you know why spain loves japan??? because spanish and japanese people suck at speaking english(true fact man), anyways in japan nobody cares about spanish they care about english!!! (true fact again)...anyways I love japan, I love south korea and well about spain...fuck SPAIN!!! hahahaha
Gorrita615 11 months ago
@Gorrita615 Agree :) I love Japan :) Of course Korea too.
AllMyNakama 11 months ago
@AllMyNakama YAY!!! I knew somebody would believe me!!!
Gorrita615 11 months ago
Nope ur wrong Japanese is not similar to Spanish WTF are you talking about idiotica
LBPFan65 11 months ago
i'm from Spain.and that's true...!! Japanesse is similar to Spanish !!... I really love it
SPAIN Loves JAPAN & South Korea !! (L)... English is a boring language...!!
The best iS SPANISH !!
flakito018 1 year ago
@flakito018
Spanish is similar to Japanese?
Dream on.
MorrisMerkx 11 months ago
@MorrisMerkx yeaaah it's similiar...and i don't care if you believe or not...!! so...don't post stupid commments.... is it okay?... ¡Qué te jodan!
flakito018 11 months ago
@flakito018
Aww, how cute. Spanish in an Indo-European, Romance language. Japanese is from the Japonic language family. Which is an isolated family or according to some linguists, distantly related to the Altaic language family. Both Japonic and Altaic languages are as far from Indo-European languages as it gets. I will say that again in simple English for you: Spanish is in no way related to Japanese, retarded peasant.
Fuck you too by the way.
MorrisMerkx 10 months ago
@MorrisMerkx the same...¡Qué te jodan, maldito retrasao! jajaja :D
flakito018 10 months ago
@flakito018
I shouldn't have wasted those two minutes on you. You probably have horse shit for brains.. :(. I pity you. And it is everything but similar. In Japan they would nearly die laughing at you, and then be disgusted by the thought that someone could even think their beautiful language and your farmer language are similar.
MorrisMerkx 10 months ago
@flakito018 japanese and spanish similar? are you fucking high? did your mom drop you when you came out her pussy? estas mal de la cabeza idiota cerebro de mierda
2tooful 10 months ago
@2tooful dile a tu la putita de tu madre, que deje las calles ya, que es hora de hacer algo por su vida...y a ti maldito bastardo..decirte que eres GILIPOLLAS y en mayúsculas, asi que te peten...y no la sigas comiendo con tuss putos comentarios de mierda....madito soplapollaaaas !! jajaja :D byeeeeee marica !
flakito018 10 months ago
@flakito018 os picaos el culo
2tooful 10 months ago
Korean is technically easier to learn than Chinese and Japanese. However, given that there is no F, Z, or "Sh" sound, I wouldn't put the language on a pedestal. Seriously, Korea should do what Japan has done and add extra characters to their written language. There's something wrong when coffee is pronounced "Cuppy".
alHalwima 1 year ago
@alHalwima Korean does have the "sh" sound in it. Though I generally agree with you in that they should add extra characters to their written language; the world has "expanded" so much that simply substituting a sound not existing in Korean phonetics with something else is eh... I dunno.
dalkimi 1 year ago
@dalkimi It makes the language clunky and confusing. The number of homophones goes up and even native speakers have difficulty speaking the language.
BTW, doesn't the guy in this video look kinda like Rob McElhenney?
alHalwima 1 year ago
@alHalwima dude add extra characters? it's better than Japanese saying Cohee when it's supposed to be Coffee. and Korean has more pronunciations than Japanese, so I really don't know what the heck it is you're trying to say. Japanese is pretty inefficient in that it has such limited amount of pronunciations
tokee1234567 11 months ago
@tokee1234567 Korean has seven vowels as opposed to Japanese's five, I will admit that. But Japanese has a lot more consonants and is better at using them too. Again, Korean has NO letters 'Z', 'F', 'V', and no definite 'TS' sound. They also screw up in the same way you say the Japanese do by putting unneeded vowels at the end of words, namely the hangul for "eu". Now, which sounds closer to "fire the laser"?
JP: "Faia za reza!"
KO: "Paieo deo raejeo!"
alHalwima 11 months ago
@alHalwima korea doesn't have seven vowels... do you even know Korean????
they do have a definate T sound and an S sound. and the japanese put "U" that's pretty similar to Korea's EU. dude stop being ignorant.
korea's vowels: ah, yah, uh, yuh, oh, yo, oo, yoo, eu, ee + like several other complicated vowels such as wae, wii, wuh, eui
tokee1234567 11 months ago
@alHalwima
and japanese doesn't even sound as accurate in that sentence as korean does..
most westerners understand korean-accented english better than a japanese accent because at least Korean has a lot of ending consonants, but for Japanese your words doesn't usually end with a consonant, but have to end with vowels.
most koreans have very good japanese pronunciation wheras it takes years for a japanese person to just speak korean with a good pronunciation
tokee1234567 11 months ago
@tokee1234567 Whatever, troll. I have little interest anyways of mastering the language of a country that still has the draft, too many Christian Fundamentalist cults, lack of freedom of speech, and engages in extensive historical revisionism.
alHalwima 11 months ago
@alHalwima ignorant jerk. your country has a horrible government and a crappy way of denying your own history. and also, the fact that japanese needs to use chinese to write decent literature and cannot do it by just using their own letters just shows me how incompetent the language is. so inefficient. why they made their own letters if they still need to use chinese letters still baffles me, but yea you're a troll too
tokee1234567 11 months ago
@tokee1234567 Yuhuh. I'm not an apologist for anyone, not even America. Difference is, you're waving the "Korea is better than everyone" flag. I refuse to believe that a country less than half the size of Utah somehow contributes more to the rest of the world than any other. Same with Japan, America, Britain, France, or any other country.
alHalwima 11 months ago
@alHalwima you're the one who mocked the Korean languaged and put the nuance of saying that the japanese language was somehow better than Korean. dude. you're the one who started it. did i even say Korea contributes to the world or anything? stop making up excuses. I never talked about those sort of things and you're just using them to cover your lame arguments
tokee1234567 11 months ago
@tokee1234567 I am going to reiterate: Korean has NO letters F or Z! I don't care how more experienced the people there are with their own language than "the West". If your language refuses to make an honest attempt at even sounding close to foreign names, places, and ideas, it is LIMITED!
Apeurika for Africa!
Peuranseu for France!
I, as an American, would normally wonder what the hell Koreans would be talking about if I didn't know the translation.
alHalwima 11 months ago
@alHalwima so? Korea doesn't have 2 consonants you're talking about while Japan lacks like 10 vowels that Korean has + Japan lacks ending consonants except for n and t at the end of their words. who the hell cares?? your language is the one that's limited. compared to Japanese, Korean has more pronunciation. it's a fact
of course you wouldn't know. hell would you even know Japanese without translation if you were a full caucasian american? try thinking before typing your crap on the computer.
tokee1234567 11 months ago
@tokee1234567 I'm...I'm just not having this discussion anymore. Period. I don't even plan to go to South Korea until the two halves get their little war over with.
alHalwima 11 months ago
it's a trap i thought korean was easy at first but the grammar later on just killed me
auesr 1 year ago 38
@auesr here im Korean and here a easy to to think about Korean....its speaking English backwards.
so if you say "lets go the the mall"
you have to say " mall lets go"
Jukebau5 6 months ago
@Jukebau5 yeah i remember learning that. i'm surprised my comment is still top thumbed up O_o
auesr 6 months ago
@auesr
You need a korean GF to learn better.
Easier to learn just a bunch of words then soon you can tie them together
Onyo dongsaeng! dahm bae chul saeoh?
inachu 5 months ago
ajalee11 1 year ago
Korean is not hard to learn if you are really interested in it but it is hard for a person with english as their first language to speak it fluently.
Question: Are Korean words like nan, niga and naege pronouns?
geowhit88 1 year ago
Do you know that my dictionary has more than 10 pages to explain the word 'take' ? For foreigners, The most difficult thing in learning english is that there are so many english words which has completely different meanings. For example, BRASS 1. metal 2.money 3.thick face 4. high officials 5.whore ,Indigence-indigene-indigent-indignant-indign-indignation-indiginity-....
mhoh10038 1 year ago
Korean is sooooo easy ^^
I love it!! but Aren't there pronouns to some extent? They just get dropped?
darkandre76 1 year ago
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BLAH BLAH! EVERY PEOPLE SAYS LEARNING MY LANGUAGE IS HARDEST! BUT IT DEPEND HOW ARE YOU FAST LEARNER OR IS THOSE LANGUAGE HAVE SOME SIMILARITY IN YOUR LANGUAGE OR LANGUAGE YOU LEARNED IN THE PAST. AND I HAVE HEARD IT IS EASIER LEARN JAPANESE, KOREAN TO SOUTH EAST AND CENTRAL ASIAN THAN EUROPEAN AND LEARNING ENGLISH EASIER TO EUROPEAN THAN ASIAN.THAT IS MORE LIKELY DIFFERENCE OF CULTURE BACKGROUND
sergeibodrov 1 year ago
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sergeibodrov 1 year ago
Korean = Silla language
Manchurian = Balhae + Buyeo language
Japanese = Baekje + Goguryeo language
Hananim91 1 year ago
@Hananim91 koreans are shallow people who love making lies(you are one of them),korean language is a shallow language which is as simple and monotonic as the sound of animal
1peculiar 1 year ago
@1peculiar
awww..we love you too little poor brown inbred 3rd world slave. Please stop polluting this video.
We want to learn Korean.
stirrednotshaken7 1 year ago
@1peculiar no, we aren't as thick as the Chinese who claim other countries' history through the Northeast Project. (search on wiki) - who cares about you thinking its a shallow language? It's said to be the most efficient and "scientific".
Superstarrockmetal 1 year ago
@Superstarrockmetal hey stop trolling you kimchi,korean language sounds like animal barking,koreans can't produce any nice literatures because of their primitive linguistic system
1peculiar 1 year ago
@1peculiar you just showed people how dumb bass you are lol
we have lots of wonderful literatures that you guys even can not translate. hahahah because korean language is so immature and beautiful language that you cant understand and translate. Korean (= Hangul) is designated as a UNESCO world heritage you idiot. Just let you know you moron :p
cjhdoc 11 months ago
@1peculiar and you're pretty dumb like an animal for making that retarded comment
tokee1234567 11 months ago
Im learning Korean :) And Im looking forward to learn more :)
noecortexX5 1 year ago
korean is not hard to learn at all!!!!!!!!! im learning how to speak and its not hard and im not korean
bigdaddy4381 1 year ago
well japanese and english were my first languages, so korean came easy to learn to me, i'm still learning but im moving fairly quickly so i agree with some of that...but i also think it depends on the person, while someone could say it was easy for me because i know japanese, i think its easy more so because i just have a nack for languages so yea
xRyokuxluvsxUx 1 year ago
If your chinese/ know chinese and you are starting to learn japanese, you already mastered kanji because kanji is made up of chinese symbols. It took me 2 high school years to read/write/speak japanese.
Saepokegai 1 year ago
Out of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, I definitely find Korean to be the easiest, so I guess they're just grouped together so they don't have so many categories. But really, I learned a great deal in just one year in Korea, despite my teacher being a horrible language teacher. He didn't even teach us any sentence structure and we only learned the infinitives of words for some strange reason... Oh well.
cheesedog68 1 year ago
Is really there any common between ENGLISH and Korean?
Should we have to learn that COMMUNIST or Totalitorian country's language?
EdinburghTiger 1 year ago
@EdinburghTiger Really? Are you serious? How ignorant are you exactly?
cheesedog68 1 year ago
About eastern-language learning period..I'm korean.
1. Character (reading/writing)
(1) korean(Hanguel) : about 1 month
(2) chinese : about 1 year
(3) japanese(Gana+chinese) : about 1 year
2. Language(Hearing/speaking)
(1) korean/japanese/chinese : at least above 1 year ~ forever.
iam21111 1 year ago
Thanks for the amazing video! :) Even though I have really no interest in learning Korean... maybe one day?
muchloveretard 1 year ago
I have looked and compared between Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and I think Chinese is harder than Japanese in some ways, and Chinese is easier than Japanese in other ways, same thing can be said about Japanese....Korean however, seems to be in the middle....I think that Korean language has too many different vowel sounds and there are a few I have a difficult time pronouncing
supermonk3y07 1 year ago
hey guys please give me an information: do north korean and south korean people speak the same language? in south korea they speak the hangul...what about in north korea? tahnks a lot
cuchinigno 1 year ago
@cuchinigno North Korea peaks Korean as well. Only difference is that North korea omitted the usage of Chinese words in the Korean language while South Korea uses a mix of Chinese and Korean words to form hangul.
Azurestories 1 year ago
@Azurestories thanks a lot! can u please tell me how i say "how are you?" in korean? in every lesson here on youtube i see how to say "my name is", "what's your name?", "where are you from?" etc... but not "how are you?"... that should be a very used question in every language, i think in korean too... please help me (both with simbols and phonetic if u can), thanks =)
cuchinigno 1 year ago
@cuchinigno Okay. "how are you?" would be
안(ahn) 녕(nyeong) 하(ha) 세(seh) 요(yo) --> this is the informal way of asking someone. This phrase is generally a greeting phrase.
However the more formal way to ask someone "How are you?" would be to say:
안(ahn) 녕(nyeong) 하(ha) 십(sheem) 니(nee) 까(kah)?
The meaning of this phrase is fixed unlike the informal one.
Hope I helped ;D
Azurestories 1 year ago
@Azurestories thanks guy, u have been very kind, i didn't know annyon ha seh yo was also the translation of "how are you?", i thought it was only to say "hello/hi", or "good morning" etc...well i bought a 400 pages korean book to learn this wonderful language, u hope u helped me and i say, of course u helped! that's y if i need your help again to study that book, i'll immidiately ask to you, ;) thanks again
cuchinigno 1 year ago
@cuchinigno **Speaks
Azurestories 1 year ago
I've always wanted to learn Korean and French. Somehow I ended up with Spanish and Dutch lol.
TheGreenerItGets 1 year ago
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whats your first language?the grammer of japanese is too difficult for english-speaker to learn.i think the chinese would be much easier becasue of the simple grammer system.moreover,its grammer is kind of similar to english grammer.i strongly suggest people learn chinese.china is rising quickly.the total GDP of china is expected to exceed that of the USA in 17-20 years.in contrast,the gdp for japan has stopped from growing for 20 years.the total gdp of japan was reduced by 5.2% in 2008.
240kankan 1 year ago
Now comment no. 2: I'm fluent in English, however my native language is Croatian (it's in Europe btw) and that was my biggest advantage in learning Japanese.We can say a Japanese word fluently even if we didn't understand what it means. I mastered both Hiragana and Katakana and now I'm going for Kanji. I find Korean words to be harder to comprehend and even though I've occupied myself with Korean songs and dramas, I can only recognize 1-2 words per sentence. But I can read Hangul pretty well ^^
RockandAnime 1 year ago
I'll def try it. ^^
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Kiss
MayaInRed 1 year ago
weren;t you a fucking spiritual guru 3 years ago? scam artist jack of all trades? lol
koreanpeoples 1 year ago
FUUUCCK!!! i love korean so much though! lol ill learn anyways
chancholoa 1 year ago
I'm portuguese. I speak portuguese, spanish, french and english. I've been learning japanese, mandarin and korean, korean its the easiest one, maybe because i started korean after japanese and mandarim.
Asian languages are not difficult, but you have to work and practice hard. Their "simple" because the grammar its really easy. In port./spanish/french so many verbs are irregular, most people find ir difficult to learn.
In japanese and mandarim the difficult part are the thousands of caracters.
dekasla 1 year ago
@dekasla and the pronounciation in mandarim its also difficult.
Its not impossible. You just need to study and if possible live there, i'll be moving to japan in a few months and after that china and i plan to go to korea as well.....
dekasla 1 year ago
지상렬 닮았당.
hare1004 1 year ago
how many boat people from Keroa are in US?
it seems so many..... bizzare
pplarzza 1 year ago
Very nice video. I would actually like to learn how to speak both Korean and Japanese, and to me Korea seem easier to learn, especially if you think about the writing system. The speaking part I'm not so sure about, though. I am a native Norwegian speaker and I also speak English fluently and I am learning how to speak Dutch.
mariesu92 1 year ago
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dekasla 1 year ago
@mariesu92 Japanese its really easy to speak because the sounds are really basic: stockkanji . com /images/ HowToWrite/ HowTo_HiraganaChart . gif (thats it, those are all the sounds they have)
The grammar its easy, the most difficult part its the particles and keigo (polite language) and of course the 2000 chinese caracters.
dekasla 1 year ago
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240kankan 1 year ago
third, people learning korean don't normally entertain themselves with dialects from different rural regions of korea. when i came to canada and learned english, did my teachers teach me all the different english accents in the world? no. put things into perspective, and open your horizons.
of course "language learning takes a long time," i'm not saying it doesn't
but you shouldn't go around saying that it just can't be a fun and EASY process.
aerokpc 1 year ago
first, king saejong founded hanguel, which is KOREAN. your differentiation between hanguel and korean was totally immature. that's like saying phonetics and writing of english are two totally different LANGUAGES. what, people are going to learn how to speak korean but not how to write or read hanguel?
second, korean has pronunciation rules to be learned. EVERY language has pronunciation rules to be learned, your statement is banal. however, in my opinion, korean pronunciation is easy to learn
aerokpc 1 year ago
How can you say 이에요 and 입니까? aren't words but merely punctuation marks? This is totally false.
이다 = is/are
Learning Korean is not impossible but it requires dedication and study. You are trying to oversimply the learning process in order to attract customers. It is impossible to learn Korean "overnight". It takes a considerable amount of