Japanese, Korean or Chinese: Which One to Choose? - BigBong
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2018
- What you need to know before learning Japanese, Korean and Chinese!
What makes them so different and what's similar about them?
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If you're learning the 3 languages, you should check this out: ua-cam.com/video/mzugUIkjRaI/v-deo.html
learn write Chinese ! then u can understand most of japanese and korean book
if you just thinking about it don't it take so much time....
@김옥수 I think you did great in your history class, cheers!
@@jiayintown5886 doubt it
@@tx3443 鷉瀫雥黻囓？
korean - easiest to read
chinese - easiest grammar
japanese - easiest to pronounce
That's because Chinese grammar is influenced by western languages. When you see ancient Chinese article, you won't think its grammar is simple
If you think Japanese is easy to pronounce you obviously don't speak the language. Every single word has a pitch accent associated with it and changes depending on the context of a sentence. If you don't have the pitch accent down, your are less intellegible.
vietnamese - fukking hard
Latin alphabet
Chinese influences
Tonals and diacritics
@@benbisogno5578 yeah definitely...japanese seem simple to pronouce but it's not, even there is some words who are really hard to pronouce, without talking about the sound of the mix of H/F and L/R
@@benbisogno5578 as a portuguese native is super easy
For me
Korean: easy to read, hard to pronounce
Japanese: hard to read, easy to pronounce
Chinese: hard to read, hard to pronounce
It actually is hahhaa totally agree lol
Wait. You should say ‘harder’ for Chinese. They have additional pronouciations which are harder and 5 intonations that you have to correctly do to communicate.
same lmao
Chinese is VERY tonal , very different from japanese or korean. Korean is also not a tonal language. Japanese also SOUNDS much more calm than any other asian languages. And im not talking about just chinese korean japanese. Vietnamese Thai or Lao are as chinese very tonal and have MUCH more loanwords from china (im half thai half chinese) , mainly from south chinese languages (not mandarin) , also cantonese (there are several sentences who exist in thai too for example ,but they mean something different mainly).
The main similarity in japanese korean chinese language is just the writing system , only VERY few korean words are loanwords from china, same with japanese , they both are a very own language (from speaking and pronouncing). In case of that the TONAL southeast asian languages that exist ,they have much more chinese loanwords (but like i said, those loanwords are mainly from south chinese languages), i speak and understand thai/lao & south chinese dialects (fluent) so i know the similarities and differences.
mxd-asian1990
What is ‘the writing system’ you are talking about? Did you mean alphabet and characters?
I've taken Korean lessons for 3 months this year, and I can tell that it is much easier than it can seem ! I've learned to read, write and speak a little really quickly. Fighting :D
As a korean it is easy if you practice
Reading and writing would be really easy since “한글” is really simple. However there are other tough parts in korean such as speaking, or the grammar.
파이팅~
i've been learning korean for a few months too and just started learning japanese. hangul is so easy and makes me wish all languages had just one phonetic alphabet
열심히 공부하다보면 더 잘 할 수 있겠죠. Keep up the good work!!
Quick, clear and very helpful. Love this video
"I love anime but I'm also a fan of K-pop and i could never say no to Chinese food" perfectly said.
I love Japanese and Korean food, culture and their languages overall and also Kpop and I'm a Chinese so no need to learn it as another language 😂
@@user-dd7kl5cw1p same bro im 12 but im still learning begenners Chinese 😭
@No Japan비스마르크 ………………………
oppa Gangnam Style 😂
@@alfredcheng5739 You make me feel special (twice)
Anime or kpop is the hardest question I have ever receive in my life
Anime
IKR!!
Both are gay af
same.. i love both..
*Sing gangnam style tho*
you forgot to mention that if you learn korean, you get to go to north korea which is the greatest country in the world
Korean alphabet is like 3D puzzle version of alphabet and yet, any complicated sound/pronunciation can be written easily, and reading is so easy, literally, there is no reason to have a spelling bee contest. you will not have any problem on how to pronounce "a" , "e", "i" , etc... I guess it's similar to Spanish in that sense.
한국어가 알파벳의 3D 퍼즐 버전이라는 표현 정말 참신하고 좋은것 같아요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ👍👍👍
When it comes to Korean vowels, this is 100% correct.
However, Korean consonants and how their sounds morph in words are much more complicated in actual use, as specific batchim (terminal consonant) rules will confound any early learner and have them question why letters don't make the sound they learned when studying hangul alone. It's all the reason why many who praise hangul's easy of learning have trouble enunciating multisyllabic words, and the message board on the website of the NIKL (the official Korean language authority in the ROK) gets spelling questions all the time from native speakers, due to how words should be pronounced and what spellings are acceptable for certain words.
Japanese: anime
Korean:k-pop
Chinese:business
You have 100 likes and may not even know
Are we forgetting about manga it's mostly in Chinese
we have c-pop as well, hahaha
I hope that even when you'll learn Chinese and work with them you won't comply with the fascist regime of the CCP that denies June 4 1989, Taiwan, etc
@@hurile498 cpop isn't that good tho, like even cdrama is better, but jpop/kpop/kdrama/jdrama >>>>>>cpop/cdrama
“Even a stupid man can learn Korean in 10 days”
*Me who’s been trying to learn it for the past month*: (・∀・)
I believe he meant Hangul as in the writing system, not the whole language, lol.
it is the hangul character XD. it's really easy! i learned it in 2 days
Korean is absolutely difficult to learn
There's no way you can learn any language in 10 days
In book, not korean it says Hangul
Annyeong, I know Japanese and I'm currently learning Korean, so I'm really glad I did exactly as you advised! Your videos are concise fast and useful, ありがと。
Thank u for the video! Easy to be familiar with languages,,
Asian languages sound cool when you speak them👌
@John Smith Yup. Agreed. Plus hindi sounds additionally weird and stupid... neither English neither Indian.
@John Smith it's weird because you don't know it idiot.
@John Smith yeah
@shatter gee indian is also asian u fucking idiot and no indian is not a nice language
@John Smith ikr
Him recommending to start with Japanese but I’m already deep into korean. 👁👄👁
That was how I felt when I heard Korean only has one, limited alphabet... like, maybe I made the wrong choice O-O
It's still good. That means you'll have an easier time learning Japanese. Either way you're doing great!
Same Bro same
@@joelleweetjewel9948 Don't wanna alarm you but just because it's a single 40 letter alphabet doesn't mean it's easy to read and write. It's actually really hard to rememebr all the sound change rules. Lots of nasalization rules and differnt sound change rules depending on where the letters are in the words and the words themselves. It's actually easier in a lot of ways to just use Kanji. Trust me, Korean is deceiving. It's isn't really hard but it's certainly not easy. Hangul is easy to learn but hard to master. And I know because I'm an intermediate Korean speaker. I have been learning for 2-3 years already. There are so many random grammar rules you have to learn. It's kind of annoying.
Same. I've been learning Korean for 2 years and I finally got to the intermediate stage of Korean. I am trying to get to expert so I can teach Korean. How good is ur korean??? I can finally say most of the basic things I want to say. It's really quite fun.
really helpful！thx for the video！
1：40 I eat rice
私がご飯を食べます（This is the wrong translation）
私はご飯を食べます（This is the correct translationright）
は←wa or ha .The word は is pronounced wa when it comes after the subject,は is pronounced "ha" only when it is part of a word.
愛人 in Chinese: spouse, in Korean: lover, in Japanese: affair partner. Ah~ cultural differences...
爱人 in Chinese literally translated to lover, but it often use as spouse too
愛人 means 'spouse' ONLY in Mandarin Chinese, but not in Cantonese please.
爱人 in Chinese actually
爱人 is not really used now, in chinese is more common to hear 丈夫/老公 or 太太 for example
@@underhorse5367 lover is not really used with 爱人, I think it's more common 情人
"I love anime but i'm also fond of kpop. and i could never say no to chinese food"
howd you know? 👀
Literally the perfect way to describe me
That's me!
I love anime and Japanese music, but who can say no to Chinese food?
Titanama05 crazy people
Right ! I think kpop is very beautiful there’s songs that make me want to learn Korean and chines food is amazing and anime is good as well
Really lovely video thank you
nice informative video arigatoa lot my man
Pros for all
Chinese easiest grammar
Japanese easiest pronunciation
Korean easiest alphabet
Japanese pronunciation is actually pretty difficult if you want to sound correct. Look up pitch accent
@@arunraman6630 It's still easier than Chinese.
Spot on.
@@arunraman6630 easy
Some one was telling me that Chinese is actually very difficult to learn all the grammar... I don't know if it's 100 percent true or what but I heard that from a few people who said Chinese grammar is actually very difficult.
me: thinking i'm having a good talk
the chinese person i'm talking to: did you just call my mother a horse
Hahahahha😭
just speak english to me please🤝
Lmao
lol
@@laterwell no we don't speak language of oppressors
As a Korean, I've spoken English for a long time and I've also learned German, Japanese and Chinese. Since the word order of Korean and Japanese is the same, Japanese is easy to learn for me, but Chinese was very difficult because of the tone and the different word order. That's why many Koreans can't speak Chinese well compared to Japanese. Chinese is a neighboring language to Koreans, but it's more difficult than English.
Wow, interesting.
True
한국인으로써 매우 공감합니다. 영어는 초등학교때부터 배워서 익숙하고, 일본어는 어순이 비슷해서 쉽지만 중국어는 너무 어렵습니다!! 이웃 국가지만 서양 언어인 영어보다 어려워요
@@huangEason-wf4tdAbout 120 yrs ago they used Chinese characters in scholarly documents and traditional scholars could read Chinese text, but most except for interpreters couldn't speak Chinese. There are records of having interpreters at court when Chinese envoys visited. And most common Koreans couldn't read Chinese nor speak it, so King Sejong created Hangeul in the early 15th century. Since then although the educated kept using Chinese characters in writing (most couldn't speak Chinese tho) commoners and women used Hangeul. In sum, Koreans except for very few couldn't speak Chinese. It's very difficult for Koreans to learn Chinese because the two languages are very different, and only its letters not the language itself were used even in old days.
Easier for us to learn Korean, haha. I can remember a Korean word in one second, because the same pron in Chinese.
Im learning korean now. Think i knew the whole alfabeth in 3 hours. I mix up 여 and 야 sometimes but not often but i also mix up 유 and 요, witch happens alot.
"Even a stupid man can learn it in 10 days"
*Me who still gets confused between the vowels: 👁💧👄💧👁*
Ikr, is not that easy, I still get them confused
I think it will be helpful ua-cam.com/video/TE4eplsFSms/v-deo.html
Individual differences...duh😒
mood
i learned it in about a week.... it is really easy if you try to associate the letters with any other language letters and learn it every day... just don’t be lazy... i know that some people are learning it like once a month and then they are like “this language is hard”. no, it’s not, you just gotta learn it every single day.
maybe it’s easier for me since i’m russian and i already had experience learning other language, English, and also Korean grammar is similar in some points with Russian grammar.. for example the rule that the verb is always last, in Russian you can say “I love you” and “I you love” and both will be right, so it wasn’t a shock for me lol... the only thing is 은, 는, 을, 를, etc. but it’s possible to memorize it. good luck with learning Korean 😄
The dude explained why I clicked on this video in the first 9 seconds
Same 😅
For Gangnam Style?
He is very HANDSOME😂
Yes, I like people who get right to the point
Right, im curious too
listening to all of that makes my head spin and I want to sleep...I want to learn all three, but I think that was an overload for me...good content though...
와우 한국어가 완전 원어민이네요 한국인같은 발음에 설명도 완벽합니다 배우려는 분들에게 정말 도움되는 컨텐츠네요 중국어나 일본어는 저도 모르는데 대단하십니다👍🏻
I'm very fortunate to be able to speak all 3... But it's a lot of effort to learn
Since you speak all 3, which one would you say is the hardest or most complex language?
Damn dude I didn't expect to seeyou here...
are u following me ??? lol
Hi again
@@crossiant-kun5393 I'll say once you learned one of these, the other two becomes easy, because they share many borrowed words especially from Chinese; However the pronunciations vary depending on the language. If your first language is English, I think Korean or Japanese could be easier to pronounce. Chinese is a tonal language which could be hard If you hadn't been exposed to
As an NCTzen, it's very bold of you to assume that I will choose only one...
the struggle is real 😔
@@3booganyay3 the struggle is real T^T
but we can do this together uwu
@@sushi4904 😊💖
I choose chinese bc my biases mostly part of china line 💀
i chose Chinese because of wayv
For some reason, youtube's been recommending this exact video to me for several years every once in a while lol. This shows up every time I almost forget about the existence of this to remind this video exists. Congrats! You've been definitely selected by the youtube algorithm.
Thanx for this video, it is really useful for latin native language speakers as we brazilian.
I'm Chinese and I've been learning Japanese by myself and planning to learn Korean. TBH Chinese characters were a huge bonus when learning Japanese kanjis
I'm Japanese and I also have been learning Chinese. Of course, your pronunciation are verrrrrryyyy hard for me (especially 吃,热,育… We don't have such sounds) BUT! I can so easily write 中文 and often understand your characters without a dictionary. I'll work on it harder!! I hope you'll enjoy studying 日本語 加油💪
@@mayukomiwa5612 頑張って！
@@mayukomiwa5612 Yeah haha!
みんはお I think learning Cantonese will be easier for you cuz the pronunciations are more similar to the Japanese kanji
我也是诶（除了想学韩语）个人觉得日语里有两个汉字连在一起比较好读，只有一个的话都不知道是onyomi还是kunyomi哈哈
Me who wants to watch anime without subs, speak to a billion people, AND sing Gangnam style: 👁️👄👁️💧
oof, I knew the gangnam style lyrics since I was 3 lol
Yessir
Me: *cackles and rubs hands together* I want to learn it ALL
at least singing Gangnam style is much easier than the other two
And wanna dance BTS too 🎶
you are languege genius!! What a perfect accent!!!
Korean is so pretty to listen, Chinese writing is SO PRETTY, I'm learning and I'm so excited bc it's very different but pretty and i hope I can stay excited until I can fully understand the language lol
So basically the perfect Asian language would be: The writing system of Korean, the pronunciation of Japanese, and the grammar of Chinese....
it would be amazing
damn people would learn that in seconds
Sadly it's not, the pronunciation of Japanese is the most difficult and the most complicated one because one Kanji(Chinese characters) ends up with a dozen pronunciations in Japanese in different cases.
Also, the writing system of Korean is the worst, even Korean themselves use Hanja(also means Chinese characters) in their constitution. They only do that because replacing Hanja with Hangul(Korean characters) led to huge misunderstandings which are not allowed in the science of law. The real reason behind this is they used to write in Hanja and many Hanja words have the exact same pronunciations in Hangul.
If I were to combine the three of the Asian languages, the most elegant writing system would be Chinese. In fact, the Classical Chinese had been used for hundreds(maybe even thousands) of years in Japan and Korea.
This is also why Chinese, Japanese and some Korean seniors who had learned Hanja can still "texting" each other nowadays as Big Bong mentioned. Classical Chinese is like Lingua Latin in the western world. Chinese and Japanese still learn some classical Chinese in high school.
The pronunciations in the three languages share the same problem, one pronunciation represents a couple different words.
As for the grammar, well, as a Chinese, I never know there actually were grammar in modern Chinese, it is so FUCKING flexible, write in any order you want, once you are able to speak Chinese, pfffff, you'll understand instantly.
@@alextuan6328 I disagree, do you know what writing system means? It is obvious that the Korean writing system is the easiest and best because its the easiest and the most basic. Unless you like more complex things. The korean language only has ten consonants and 14 vowels. Less than english. It is rlly easy to learn cuz you just add things. Whereas in Chinese you have to memorize the words which is harder.
@@josephra218 Hangul is easier, for starters.
However you’ll have to infer the meanings of words according to the context since one Hangul combination may have a dozen totally different meanings. Like I mentioned earlier, the reason behind this is they used to write in Hanja(Chinese) and Hangul the same time, quite similar with Japanese, and later they tried to get rid of Chinese by simply replacing Hanja words with their Hangul spellings.
Since inferring the meanings of words are not accurate, they still use Chinese in certain areas like the science of law, because it’s necessary.
After all, over 60 percent of Korean words are imported from Chinese or Japanese-made Chinese.
I’d say the Hanja/Hangul mixed Korean is much better than the Hangul only Korean.
Chinese characters may be a little difficult for starters, but 2000 Chinese characters are more than enough for Korean. It’s a rather small number comparing with English vocabulary.
Once you mastered the 2000 Chinese characters, you won’t need to infer the meanings of words from the context anymore, it would be a lot easier for reading.
I’m Korean American and I was born in Seoul but left when I was 2 years old. I feel like I’ve lost touch of my Korean culture and the language. My Korean pronunciation sucks and it’s so embarrassing. I want to learn Chinese and Japanese but I feel like before I learn any other language, I should learn my mother country’s language🤞🏻 haha wish my good luck
Edit: Haha why did I just get notifications for this I read all the comments and I really appreciate them all thanks for cheering me on and sharing ur experiences as well:)) some comments are like BS lmao no need to fight and have petty arguments. I’ve actually started opening korean learner books and tried learning it from the start. Grammar is hard😅 but eventually I’ll get the hang of it😊
Good luck! I'm picking up Korean as a third language :)
@Cadence Written in Chinese characters doesn't mean that Koreans spoke in Chinese language. And Hangul is not a simplified form of Chinese. The theoretical ground of inventing Hangul is far from being similar to Chinese cahractars. I understand in Chinese myth, a King invented Chinese characters inspired by foot marks of birds. But Hangul was made according to anatomy of how and where in our vocal systems make each sound. So before trying to insult other cultures, educate yourself first.
@Cadence 漢字敎育 in Korean history is something similar to Latin in Europe. They learned it ever since Roman empire but they never spoke it.
Borrowing characters only for writing isn't difficult to find examples in history. Countries around Mediterranean sea borrowed Phoenician alphabets while their spoken languages are perfectly different. Russia and Greek share same alphabets(Greek) but their languages are not at all alike.
Vietnam uses roman alphabets but up to late in the19th centuries, they used Chinese letters just like Korea did for only writing. Turkey used to write in Arabic, but now they write with Roman alphabets. It happened in early in 20th century. Do you think Vietnamese or Turkish language drastically changed in 100 years from Chinese or Arabic to something else?
Koreans have spoken Korean from who knows when, but it never happened Korean spoke in Chinese spoken language. You can easily find historical records that in ancient Silla dynasty, they used Chinese LETTERS to communicate with Chinese government officers because their languages were different. A scholar of Silla invented an writing system that represents the Korean language by borrowing Chinese letters. The reason why he did is our language system is totally different to Chinese.
Yes, a lot of nouns and official words are heavily influenced by Chinese, but it is also common in languages worldwide. English is heavily influenced by German, French, Normans et. cetra, but we don't believe people in ancient Britain didn't speak in English. I'm not denying huge influence of Chinese cultures to east Asian countries. But their languages are different stories.
Actually, Korean and Japanese are very similar to each other in terms of grammar but not in very basic words such as describing body parts. For example, head in Korean is 머리(sounds like Muh-ry) and あたま（atama) in Japanese. That is one of the many reasons why linguists don't regard those two languages belong to the same family.
If you're interested in linguistics and have some knowledge, you'll find Korean language is far from Chinese in grammatical elements, basic words those show the degree of closeness of languages.
And I'm not defending anyone. If he insulted you, I feel sorry for that. I just wanted to point out what is wrong in your belief.
@CadenceI'm not an expert in linguistics but even in Song dynasty around 9~10C, a Chinese envoy who visited Goryo wrote that Korean languages are totally different to Chinese. But they managed to communicate with each others thank to Chinese letters. So it's reasonable to think Koreans spoke in Korean that's a perfectly different language to Chinese but uses Chinese letters as we didn't have our own writing systems at that time.
It's interesting that Japanese scholars invented a lot of new words when they opened up to westerners and China and Korea imported those words for 學術 because they borrowed Chinese letters to give authorities so it was easy to understand for Koreans and Chineses. East Asian countries have got and given influences each other for thousands of years.
I wish we can show respect each other and try to understand more. Thank you for kind replies.
祝你好运🤞
Thanks a bunch bro
Thank you for the insightful video. i am targeting to all learn all these three. i got a good booster from this video... Starting from Japanese ;)
when learning korean
1. get trapped into false sense of security after learning the alphabet in less than a day
2. realize that they have two sets of numbers to memorize, and that one set is used for the hour and the other is used for the minutes when telling time
3. say fuck it and go back to speaking one language
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
If u learn K u can leran J easily and vice versa. But C is totally different lanuage.
존나 웃기네ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
근데 사실 우리나라 숫자 체계가 꽤 양호한 편임.. 일본어는 예외가 많고 프랑스어는 지옥임..
@@enceladus9502 i am Chinese but Idk if I should learn K or J or both if I wanna learn both idk which one to start first. :
"If you learn Korean, you'll finally be able to sing Oppa Gagnam Style" 😂😂😂😂 That is what I call top priority ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. Thank you for covering this topic and shedding more light about it.
@@user-ti6yb4sq8k 金歳民
Güzel Güzel ㅋㅋ 🤣
True 😂😂😂😂
Wow you're so fluent bro. I am currently trying to learn a japanese to study aboard. God bless you man.
I started learning Japanese last year and it's been really cool. I've just been memorizing words as fast as I can and watching a ton of Japanese UA-cam and TV shows. At first I understood very little but after a few weeks I started being able to understand more and more.
Korean alphabet(Hangeul) = easiest alphabet in the world
Korean grammar = very difficult
they say their language easier than russian
@@archniki_ um russian is very hard to learn more than Korean in my point of view
Korean grammar is extremely easy as long as you have correct particles with a verb at the end. You can fully scramble the sentence and be grammatically correct with 20 different combinations with the same meaning. It's the damned lexicon that's so diverse and subtle that you have to pick between 5 different synonyms correctly to say what you really mean.
@@archniki_ I am korean and I learned Russian a little. I was on the verge of die.... Это очень трудно...
grammar is not hard too. it just need some practice and you just need to say things when you say something in Eng
언어학 전공하셨나... 굉장히 핵심들 딱딱 짚으시고 공통점 차이점을 잘 설명해주시네
ㅇㅈㅇㅈ ㅎㅎㅎ
진짜 영상보면서 소름돋음 개멋있다
So impressed that he understands all of three languages!
I’m Japanese and when I’m asked if Japanese is difficult, I always tell them “There are more than 2000 ‘BASIC’ characters,” same as Chinese. It will be harder to read and write than to listen and speak.
Thank you 😊 so much 4 showing Bi Rain Oppa pic at the beginning of K -Pop introduction
I'm Japanse.
It's easy to learn Korean for us because there are a lot of same words even if not a same character.
It's also easy to understand Chinese for us because of similar character.
but English is ...😱
wwwww ㄹㅇㅋㅋ ㅇㅈ
원래 일본인은 한국어 배우기 쉽고 한국인은 일본어 배우기 엄청나게 쉬움 가끔 한자 완전 모르는 사람들은 일본어 못할 수도 있긴 하지만..
ㄹㅇ ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 한국 중국 일본권에서는 영어가 완전 모국어랑 다른 체계다 보니까 배우기가 엄청 어려움.. 중국어 문법은 살짝 비슷하긴 하겠는데 확실힌건 영어나 중국어나 둘다 어려움..
That’s because Japanese learned the character language from Tang Dynasty and developed them
Because east asian culture😀
In my opinion, Korean is the easiest. The writing system is simple, there’s a lot of K-dramas and music to help. But I haven’t learned Chinese or Japanese yet.
i agree, the alphabet is a lot smaller compared to japanese and chinese
I tried to learn korean but my brain won’t participate, then i tried learning japanese and basic chinese introduction which i think its easy. But try them all! I think that’s really helpful. If youre practicing then goodluch
@Eggeu Tarteu Chinese is hard learning the characters, but with dedication it’s easy. Honestly, my brother relearned Japanese from anime. I learned korean in a month, it’s really easy with dedication
@@souyn4967 "my brain won't participate" is sooo my experience. 1. Duolingo rejects my vowel pronunciations. All the time. 2. Hangul to me, despite my want to learn, and already having read hiragana, katakana and bopomofo for years, is like learning "circle stick stick" versus "stick circle stick".
Grammar is one of the reasons why I stop learning korean,
I love your channel!!! ❤❤❤
im currently in my 6th month studying japanese. its very hard😭 kanji is making me go crazy. im thinking of learning korean afterwards since they share the same grammar as japanese, and i already learned the korean alphabet, so i just need to memorise more vocabs😊
Korean is easiest to learn at beginning. You can learn all letters within 1 hour. Read, write, speak, basic communication for traveling in one week. But it will get complex in literature level. Which is good because writers can be very creative with the language.
If you want to understand K-drama or movies in full, you should learn Korean as you will miss a lot of nuiances which can't be translated.
😏
perfect.
it actually can happen in almost every language. Not just Korean. For example, Japanese has at least 10 different ways even just say "I" as 私、わたくし、僕、俺、わし、うち、自分、おら、吾輩、わい. and every "I" has different nuances like casual, formal, boyish, bad boys like, oldish, comedic etc etc.
@@kstudios6767 That's right. We can learn almost language slightly in 1 hours. If you only use Gana in using Japanese, I think you might learn much faster than Korean. But, If you try to "understand" the specific way, I think Korean is one of the fastest language in the world.
Conclusionally, If you want to learn language for short trip to talk to natives, Japanese is the easiest.
If you want to read book, Korean is the easiest.
But, if you are willing to spend a lot of time in learning foreign language and you want to speak and write as much as native, Chinese is the easiest.
Also true in japanese. I am learning Japanese and there is a lot of story telling techniques that writers use that aren't necessarily used in everyday speech. There is a large difference in how people talk and how stories are written that's true . Some grammar and vocab and really only used in writing
learning Chinese since I love their culture
learning Japanese since I adore watching anime
learning Korean because I love BTS
Damn, are you me?
IMP ILLUSION so much unfair biases
IMP ILLUSION India killed more of china’s soldiers and still people understood that the whole situation was a barbaric mess
IMP ILLUSION stfu all you do is feed on your western ideals and propaganda
IMP ILLUSION most of the shit u have came from China too... youre just threatened by China’s advancements.
I totally agree with the order of learning, but I myself, despite already knowing this would be the most efficient way of learning the three languages, went for Korean first. I just couldn't resist it. I'd been wanting to learn Korean for far longer than the other two 😅
For me it's absolutely a manner of what context you consume more. I am an avid fan of Korean music, cinema, and variety shows, so I spend hours a day with exposure and getting Korean input. To become fluent in a language you need to have an almost obsessive motivation about it so go with where your passion lies and the rest will follow much more easily.
I agree! I mostly indulge in Korean entertainment so for me, learning Korean has been difficult yes, but it's fun. That feeling of satisfaction when I actually understand what a kdrama actor or kpop idol says can't be topped. The grammar is different from English but I honestly didn't take very long to pick up on it. I'm still very new to learning the language since I only started seriously studying it about 1 or 2 months ago so I still struggle but again, it's fun. How's your Korean now btw? It's been 11 months since you commented😭 I hope your studying is going well! 파이팅!!
@@skzxsam한국 예능 어떤걸 보시나요??
@@Fidlestick 한국 드라마도 보고 한국 음악도 많이 들어요 (아직 한국어를 잘 못해서 번역기를 써서 쓰고 있는데 오타가 있다면 죄송합니다.)
@@skzxsam 저 역시 영어 공부를 즐겁게 하고 있고 당신의 댓글이 저에게 좋은 학습거리가 되었습니다. 한국문화를 사랑해주셔서 행복합니다
"Naega"
Korean: I
Japan: Similar
China: This
USA: racist!!!
Korean, japan and china:???
Good one
This? Is that "that" right?
붐업
...你的昵称....不错。。。
你的头像不错|•'-'•)و✧
My mothers side is korean but she left me when i was a kid so I didnt grow up with the culture plus I look like my dad who is caucasian/Welsh. So I want to learn about korean language and culture but I'm also so interested in Japanese culture. I also love anime, kpop, and chinese food. I'm struggling.
Are you a fan of bts???? It would be an easy option then... 😉😂
@@timeoftheend9516 yes I am. 😂 I guess so then
You may do them both without much extra effort. As is described in the video, both languages share a very similar grammar.
@@user-xb3ux6uv5e thank you, I will take this into thought
@No Japan비스마르크 if you feel that way.
I’m a native (Swiss) German speaker and got taught 2) French 3) English and 4) Italian. I’m fluent in English now and have average knowledge in French. My Italian vocabulary is still basic but I understand obv more than I’m actually able to speak, I guess that count for every language tbh. A few yrs ago I tried teaching myself Japanese its the easiest to pronounce but I struggled with reading/writing cuz Hiragana and Katakana are pretty different. I gave up w/Japanese(I still know some phrases and can introduce myself;) and started w/Korean about a year ago. I do recommend to learn the writing system first(Hangeul) and after your reading became faster(romanized obv) expanding your vocabulary. After one year my reading speed increased immense and now that I’m adding vocabulary I basically understand a lot.
@@jrbstudios7336 you too
Nicely catch up.
Those different sounds...influenced by Chinese letters but not at all. Eventually not a same it.
In the first fifteen seconds he literally pinned my entire conflicting thoughts wtf
와… 한중일 3개국어를 모두 수준급으로 구사하기가 쉽지 않으셨을텐데 ㄷㄷ 대단하네요
ㄷ
영어까지 4국어.. 대단..
와...
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 근데 닉이ㅎㅎ
@@aevs 소통가능정도면 4개국어임
Thank u so much for making this vedio. I've been learning Japanese since years and was interested in Chinese so took admission in part time courses and learning Korean myself. I thought it would be confusing to learn Chinese after Japanese but thank u for giving me hope
you should learn chinese as your first of three, ennn, while you can speak chinese ,Japanese and Korean will became easy.
wow, what a awesome language learner! I respect you. I only can speak my country language. I want to learn Japanese, but I give up temporarily because of Kanji. I have to learn English first! I wish I could speak several languages eagerly.
Reasons why some people want to learn Chinese: Food and culture
Reasons why I want to learn Chinese: Work and Chinese dramas
Same 😂
huh
Omg same!
@@catcitikatkat7910 ok
Yaaa
Personally, I recommend starting with Chinese Mandarin if you REALLY want to learn all 3. Learning Chinese will FORCE you to learn the characters. It's a bigger wall to get over right off the bat, but it will pay off massively. Not to mention, you won't mess up the tones as much this way. If you start with Japanese or Korean, there are words that you'll be used to saying without tones, and it can drastically change the meaning to omit them. Meanwhile, if you accidentally carry your tones into Japanese or Korean it will still be understandable. It's also just very easy to give up on Chinese, but if you have it as the first goal of a massive 3 language goal, you might be more motivated to get through it.
If you really struggle, then just go for Korean. There's tons of resources, and you can switch tons of games into it or read books in it without needing to look up a ton of characters. With Korean, I could learn new words from context very easily. With Chinese, even though the characters carry meaning, a lot of time is spent looking up the characters just to know how to pronounce it.
As much as I love Japanese, I would say that Japanese should come last, at LEAST second. You'll get used to Korea's writing system, and a lot of vocabulary is shared with similar pronunciation. You can keep solidifying your Chinese pronunciation of the characters while you learn Korean and get used to the different grammar. Once you've gotten both down, you'll be able to just learn vocabulary in Japanese and pretty much understand the language.
There will be a lot of cultural differences and sayings that differ, but it's not too bad.
As a final note do NOT start another language until you are comfortable and can speak/read/hear the current language with a lot of fluency. It's a massive undertaking and it will take a good 10-15 years to learn all 3 and know them well. Don't be fooled by the massive number of "polyglots" you run into on UA-cam that know enough to visit tourist spots and order one or two dishes. It's not bad to have specific goals for each language. Chinese is my upper level language. I like using it for high level texts related to philosophy and Buddhism. My Korean is more middle school tier. I was able to get around in the country and talk to natives about basic level politics and stuff. (You'd never catch me discussing geography or high level academic things.) I haven't yet started Japanese, because my Korean needs more attention. (Start a new language too quick, and you'll forget the one you already learned). But, I can read Japanese stuff in Chinese using Korean grammar rules. It's harder to read lower level stuff than higher level stuff just because hiragana and katakana force you to think in Japanese.
But if you stick with it it IS all possible.
This was really helpful, thank you
Agreed with all of it people are surprised when I say I started learning Chinese coz I really wanted to learn Japanese nd also read some untranslated novels. Idk how long it'd take tbh, I'm self learning Chinese secretly nd often get tired nd take breaks.
as a fluent speaker of all three, I agree with you!
I agree, I speak Chinese natively and I found that it was relatively easy to pick up both languages. I started out with Japanese because of its similarities with Chinese, and Korean was easier because of my background knowledge of Japanese.
Chinese is definitely not an easy language to learn if especially you don’t know Japanese or Korean though. So I like to think of this as the language learning priority for those who already speak Chinese.
@Zachary Ragon How did you learn Chinese? I’m interested in learning it too. I just don’t know where to start. I can’t find a structured learning material online.
I taught my self how to read Russian as an English speaker. It seems that learning Mandarin Chinese will help me a lot with reading some old texts from both China and Japan!
Superb video
I’m learning Chinese rn and it’s really easy to understand but it’s honestly a nightmare to write
When I was 5 years old, I cried while doing my homework and writing “藏“。
这几天天天天气不好
我骑车一把把把把住了
@@micocod5628 Me, on the hand enjoy writing that, I am an amateur artist, has to relate to it.
@@dashaki-totoro 哈哈哈哈哈
서양분이 한중일 언어 3개를 하시다니 정말 대단합니다.
저도 열심히 노력하겠습니다.
슈퍼맨이 따로 없네요 대단합니다
와 한국인..ㄷㄷ
@KARAN TIWARI hellow :)
@KARAN TIWARI You will do well if you learn korean lol
@KARAN TIWARI When I 4 year old I learn first hangel its very simple Next is hangle's sound like english ( I have to learn more english :( )
ㄱ(G) ㄴ(N) ㄷ(D) ㄹ(L or R) ㅁ(M) ㅂ(B or V) ㅅ(S or C) ㅇ(O or U or E) ㅈ(J or Z) ㅊ(Z) ㅋ(K or Ch) ㅌ(T) ㅍ(Ph or p F) ㅎ(H)
Das Anfangsbeispiel mit den syntaktischen Strukturen in allen drei Sprachen find ich super gut!
I'm going with:
1- Korean
2- Japanese
(i'm not interested in learning chinese xd)
But if you master the two (Korean and Japanese) it would be much easier to learn Chinese in comparison to someone who starts to learn Chinese first
as a half Chinese I totally understand... I'm not interested in Chinese culture and language because it's so conservative and homophobic.there's no democracy in China but only dictatorship.but I can speak Mandarin.😂
@@NathanielvonSchelling-rm6fb bro what are you talking about 💀💀 wdym homophobic? Did I remember correctly that it is 2024, not 1924? Homosexual discrimination basically does not happen, and the cultural conservatism you mentioned seems strange to me. If history and culture are changed at will, can it still be called history and culture? And when you say there is no democracy, what democracy do you mean? Do you want democracy like America? Black people will not be caught if they rob less than 1,000 yuan. Drug-addled homeless people are all over the streets. Even American police often empty their magazines. This is the democracy you want, right? It’s a pity that our life is pretty good now~ I think your information is all from the BBC. It’s a pity that their information is basically a picture~ a brand new story~ If you are Taiwanese, please contact me Tell me~ After all, we are all used to it~
나에게 한국어가 정말 아름답다고 생각합나다. 한국어를 가장 좋아해요. 1년 동안 공부하고 있어요. 한국어는 정말 어려운 언어예요 하지만 한글을 읽을 수 있어요. 그리고 한글을 진짜 좋아합니다. 한자가 너무나 어여워요
Alex Friedman 한국어 잘하시네요!
Alex Friedman 네, 한국인입니다. 궁금한 거 있으면 저한테 물어봐도 돼요^^;
Alex Friedman
네 맞아요! 아주 잘하시네요.
문법적으로 틀린 부분은 없어요. 그렇지만
'한국어 문법은 쉽지 않지만, 일본어 문법보단 훨씬 더 쉬워요. 제가 (솔직히) 한자를 싫어해서요.' 라고 쓰시는 게 더 자연스럽습니다.
@@Julia-uu7fs 아~ TT 제가 더 공부해야 돼요. 단어들 많이 몰라요. 그렇지만 그냥 연습이 필요합니다. 이번 주 공부할 거예요. 내년 한국에 가보고 싶어요. 나는 만 불 저축할 거야 그럼 갑니다. 한국인계 미국인 아니면 어느 도시에서 왔어요? Where you born in Korea? You speak great English obviously. I noticed in Korea and Japan too it seems that people don't speak fluent English a lot of the time.
@@alexfriedman2047 한자는 딱히 안배워도 되는데
Bingo bango mango i’m half japanese and half chinese so I can speak both languages fluently and what’s even better is that i’m currently learning Korean
this is a dream..
how u learn any tips
我也好想会日语和韩语😭
what how
i’m korean chinese and my parents never taught me any of their language 🥲🥲🥲 lucky
You're one lucky person
I totally agree with this video
As a native Korean speaker, I studied Japanese in college and now also studying Chinese by myself. The most difficult thing was reading Chinese character words. If I try to read in Japanese, but Chinese pronounce comes out in my head. It's very confusing.
哈哈
Korean is so hard 😓but the writing system is pretty easy
really？I think Korean is literally the easiest language to learn between Chinese,Japanese and Korean.
@@dearrmilu4334 Korean loan word from Chinese 70% if your understand Chinese. your understanding 70%Korean word
@@user-zc4un2es1x but the pronounciation is quite different. and we stopped using chinese letters in writing ( that was used to prevent confusing words between chinese and pure korean, just like japan does) so the writings are in 100percent hangul
@@user-zc4un2es1x English has most of its vocabulary from french, doesn't mean that you can understand french, though.
@@Bob-wr1md yes bro i mean can understood vocabulary not mean understand sentences
As a Korean student studying in Japan and also taking a Chinese class, his explanation of three languages is perfect and to the point. Needless to say Korean, Japanese pronunciations are great.
Korean is the best
You should not compare languages to others. Every language has advantages and disadvantages.
@@piano1391 yup...
@@piano1391 that first comment guy is Koreaboo just plz don't give attention to him.
choose whichever you like
Im so impressive your prononciation. Im korean and learned chinese for 2yrs. I didn’t learn about Japanese but quite familiar its intonation. so I can feel you studied phonics hard in their respective academies. I believe U must advanced level each
I'm Japanese. I like China and Korea.🌼 I'm studying Chinese and I'm playing taekwondo（跆拳道）!🥰
@Chang sorry. I can't speak English well. And, I don't know anything.
But, TKD = ''tekkyon(Korean)'' ＋ ''karate(Japan)''
I’m Chinese and I like Japanese because I can finally understand what they say in the Anime. and I like Korea because I can learn to sing.
Don’t worry, this time the google translate is right
@Chang hi Japanese. Don't pretend to be Chinese.
@@fearsomeprey8859 don't worry, the translater works just fine.
우리나라 언어를 배우면 좋은점이 강남스타일을 잘 부를수 있는거라닠ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
그건아님ㅋ
최소한 ‘오픈 콘돔스타일’ 이라고는 안할테니까요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
@@Pettiger 🤡....
🤦
@@Pettiger 아닠ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The difficulty of learning may vary depending on your native language. The order of grammar is most similar to English and Chinese. It may be easier for you to master Chinese if English is your first language. The order of Korean and Japanese grammar is the opposite of Chinese. If you are from Turkey, Central Asia, or India, the order of grammar is similar to that of Korea and Japan.
The system of alphabets and Latin letters used in English is similar to the Korean characters system. The Korean characters system is a complete alphabet.
Japanese characters use a mixture of three, including two types of incomplete alphabets and Chinese characters.
Chinese characters are similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics in the big frame.
It's a simple representation of a painting on a mural that's used as a text.
Alphabet and Korean letters are phonetic symbols in themselves.
Chinese characters have meanings in the letters themselves. Even if you write one letter, it can be a word. Because it's essentially a painting.
Alphabet and Hangul are made by expressing sound and pronunciation and it in letters.
Chinese characters and Egyptian hieroglyphics are pictures. It's a textual representation of the content of the painting.
And, Chinese characters can have different ways of pronouncing them. Because the letter itself is not a phonetic symbol.
There are several languages in China. For example, the language used by Hong Kong people and the language used by Beijing people are different.
They communicate by writing Chinese characters on paper.
There are many ways to read Chinese characters used in names in Japan.
So when you get a business card in Japan, you add a sign of how to read it in the Japanese alphabet, under the name in Chinese characters.
There are many advantages and disadvantages of Chinese characters to memorize.
There are about 2,000 Chinese characters that modern Japanese use in their daily lives.
There are about 3,000 Chinese characters that modern Chinese use in their daily lives.
However, since the letter itself is a word or has a meaning, less effort is needed to acquire additional words.
You can feel the difference if you use a computer to type characters from each country.
If you are an English speaker, you won't have much trouble typing Korean on your keyboard.
If you use Chinese characters to type in Chinese and Japanese on your keyboard, you have to adapt to a different way.
You need a unique way to enter thousands of Chinese characters on a typical keyboard.
Enter one letter and press the conversion key to replace the entered letter with another letter.
In some cases, you can have a list of 9 to 20 characters that you can change. You have to choose what you want from a list of dozens of Chinese characters.
Great insight in these 3 languages.
漢字が2000字以内に抑えることが出来ているのは、漢字の他に、平仮名、片仮名、ローマ字（アルファベットの組み合わせ）を使うからです。これらの文字が無ければ、対応する漢字は増加します。
Kanji characters can be kept within 2000 characters because, in addition to kanji, hiragana, katakana, and romaji (a combination of letters of the alphabet) are used. Without these characters, the number of corresponding kanji would increase.
Genious
分析得很准确
如果是英文的使用者，不建议学中文，声调会逼疯你
I really love Chinese language and am learning it. Well self learning. Trying to find tips to learn it even more efficiently.
I like all 3 countries but I personally think Korean sounds beautiful, especially their songs.
just some personal recommendations :)
traditional: ua-cam.com/video/17NM6lxLO70/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/DkNlsnZDCEI/v-deo.html
hiphop: ua-cam.com/video/YT2t6i5LZx8/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/i7a8vwx3BPQ/v-deo.html
CyberNerd1000 Korea sounds are same difficult
unless you work for samsung.. don't bother learn korean... and samsung work in english environment
I don't know what my friends think but one thing I understand from Korea is that courier language is 700c. They express a lot on very few languages. I know how to sing. I'm surprised. As an Indian, this is what I thought. I don't hate. Just neutral. It seems that the idea of not in any language
감사합니다♡♡
Chinese - Jet Li
Japanese - Pokemon
Korean - BTS
I love BTS and I really want to learn Korean for that but I started Japanese before learning about them >
Bruce Lee
Erraa947 Jackie Chan!
@@stephysun Bruce Lee, #2 Chuckie Chan, #3 IP MAN actor, #4 Jet Li
@@Geo-st4jv lol me too
I speak Chinese and am learning Japanese and Korean. For Japenese I can quickly master the Kanji but the words change a lot. More I learned, more difficult it becomes. The pronunciation in Korean is more complicated, the words are much easier to memorize. The grammar of them is similar but it’s really different from Chinese. And Chinese, apart from characters, has almost nothing else😂Very little grammar, no word inflection...It takes a very short time to learn to communicate but can takes a liftime to learn to be like a native speaker
语法很简单，但是中文词汇的积累是一个很漫长的过程。
锲而舍之，朽木不折；锲而不舍，金石可镂。加油吧。
@@blueleafalan中国語奥が深くて好きです。
very hepful thanks
와 발음 대박이야.. 3개 국어를 한다는 것도 놀라운데 발음도 거의 원어민같음..와 진짜 대단하다👍👍
고항 아닌가요?
illuminati 고항이에요ㅋㅋ
ㅋㅋㅋㅋはははh啊哈哈哈哈
I love Korean 💕 the language is so pretty to me but I really want to watch anime without subtitles
Korean sounds like Chinese people arguing with each other with water in their mouths
@@treeandtree1603 shi ba si mi da
thank you!!:)
@@josephjoestar6679 이 새퀴 쭝궈런이네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
@@josephjoestar6679 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ진짜 왜그러세요
I was very surprised that all three of your pronunciations were fluent. This video is very interesting. Thank you for your interest :)
Just as there are similar words even in different languages in the Western world, East Asia has similar pronunciation. China and Japan use Chinese characters, but since Korean tends to exclude all Chinese characters, Chinese characters are unnecessary in Korean.
You only need to learn Korean. The time it takes to read varies from person to person, but usually five days is no problem at all.
As a Chinese who has never learned Japanese, I won't get lost in Japan. I can read the Japanese instructions on the bags in 7-11(not every character but that is enough) . But Korean is completely unfamiliar to me. 😂
yup XD. thats why as a korean im going to study chinese first
That's awesome tbh
ikr
I'm from Hong Kong :D
But be careful guys some characters may look exactly the same but they don't share the same meaning haha
e.g. 丈夫 is "husband" in Chinese but it means "sturdy, strong" in Japanese and yes they are confusing
学中文吧！
@@permafrost8894 I heard Korean and Japanese have a lot in common in terms of grammar, is that so?
As Chinese, for me ,Korean sounds good, but it’s hard to pronounce ,their words are kind of cute.
Japanese is easier to pronounce, sounds good too, but the grammar for me is difficult -as hard as grammar of any other languages.
Chinese: well, I could just say our grammar suits well with people who are lazy af
Danfils Hu 东亚加油！我喜欢中国也喜欢日本
i wanna learn chinese someday
nah sir/lady, im Mandarin speaker but i cant write and read chinese yes im lazy af i given up study it
Mandarin sound the purest not too bad and not too good either
korean sound the roughest to me
japanese sound like some kind of western latin language pour into them
@@leeallbluem1 Actually Japanese and Korean combine lots of western words and grammar with their own language. As Chinese, it is really hard for me to learn these languages
Well your English is so good. I hate how people hav this stereotype in their minds that Chinese can't speak English. Chinese who learnt English in their schools can speak incredible English
i know both japanese and english, and currently learning korean. since japanese basically has the same sentence structure and the letters are really simple compared to 漢字.
I bounce back and forth between Japanese and Korean. Korean is the easier language to learn to read and write in (which means you can easily pick up words and phrases just from reading books), but Japanese is way easier to pronounce.
For context, my native languages are English and Spanish. From a Spanish-speaking perspective, Japanese is very easy to learn pronounciation.
I'm learning korean right now
파이팅!
Korean is a very flexible so
it is a language with high expressive power but it is very difficult to learn.
Good luck!
@@aiwkee1193 고마워요!
Yeah korean is difficult to learn or to speak as all Est asia languages🖇️but i'm really in love with the korean language i wish i Will speak it very well at future...
I'm working hard for this✨
3가지 언어에 대한 이해가 상당하시네요. 존경스럽습니다
this guy is obviously great at explaining but so fast!