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.
@@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
@@Jess-ip2fx But Ben is talking about pitch accent, not individual consonant or vowel sounds. You may have similar sounds as Japanese from your native language, but not the pitch accent. You're still not going to sound correct when speaking Japanese. And I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem that Portuguese has a pitch accent from what I've read. It's something entirely new you'd have to learn and it can be quite difficult.
@@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
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.
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.
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
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
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💪
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.
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.
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。
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.
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😊
@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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".
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
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!!
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.
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.
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.
@Joëlle Weetjewel 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.
@Joëlle Weetjewel Yeah for sure. Are you studying Japanese? Romanization sucks for sure. It's so bad to use roman for Korean or Japanese.... it just simply does not work and there is no way to really show the reader what the sounds are. Anyway I always think it's funny when I see comments that kids make that are like "omg Korean is sooo easy" Or "Hangul is sooo easy to learn , I learned it in 30 mins!" And it's just like yeah obviously those kids never got passed complete noobies stage of kinda sorta knowing the alphabet and knowing a few words. If they actually studied Korean they wouldn't be saying it was so easy. It is nice to not have to learn Kanji though. I'm not a big believer in Hanja learning. For Japanese in it's current state you kinda have to learn Kanji but for Korean it's weird like it does help you a lot but also you never use it, so it's just to gain a better understanding of the language.
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.
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
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 ...😱
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.
I just came across this terrific video and I'll look for more. I first studied Korean in the 1970s when I lived in South Korea for a couple of years. At that time, Koreans still used almost 2,000 Chinese characters to supplement native Korean written in Hangul. When I came back to the US, I studied Japanese, which was very easy for me because I had the base of Korean grammar and some Chinese characters, and the pronunciation was much easier than Korean. And then, a couple of years later, I moved to Singapore and started studying Chinese. Now I mostly focus on Chinese, but refresh Korean and Japanese from time to time. Knowing all three has been fascinating.
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.
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.
im a native speaker of Korean and went to school in China. Your Korean pronunciation is actually really good and your Chinese tones are really good as well. so surprised. good on ua
I want to be a businesswoman who can communicate with lots of people so I think Chinese is the best option to learn BUT I indulge myself in so much Korean media that I already know some vocab and grammar so that may be the easiest for me to learn. Finally, there is Japanese which I really love how it sounds. Difficult decision for me. If I were to choose two to learn though… I think my best bet is Korean and Chinese
I recommend you learning in order of chinese->japanese->korean.Both japanese and korean are effected by the chinese characters,so if you learn chinese first,it will be way easier than learning japanese or korean as your second language.
But Chinese is very hard to get right when speaking, people focus a lot on the tones (which is very hard), but even if you get the tones right but you don’t group words naturally, then you really are going to have a hard time communicating well. 😢 Here’s the thing to success in anything: Hardwork, perseverance, passion, and diligence. They are interconnected, you can not succeed for long if you even have one of those missing.
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.
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.
I've started Mandarin, and it's hard (looking for more resources to use, if anyone has recommendations), but I think it's rewarding. The script is beautiful with so many stories behind it (especially traditional, even if it is tougher to learn). Even if it takes a long time to master, being able to recognise a few characters is very satisfying. As is saying a sentence to a native speaker and having then understand. The tones aren't as horrendous as one might think (although I believe Cantonese has more)!
I've just started learning mandarin and looking for new resources to use as well. I study mostly on youtube for free with a channel called mandarin corner. So far, it does help a lot for a beginner like me. What is your first language by the way?
actually all the southern Chinese dialects like Cantonese has more tones than Mandarin, they kept most ancient Chinese tones than Mandrian, the ancient Chinese had 10 tones lol, this is also why Mandrian is the official language in China, fewer tones is much easier for everyone to learn and communicate, also if you have learned simplified Chinese character and you want to read something in traditional Chinese character you still could understand it, I'm not saying when someone started to learn Chinese must learn simplified Chinese character but it's easier for non-Chinese speaker to get started with
Use language apps to get you up to speed with writing (also you should buy a book to draw the characters yourself). Once you know how to read you will find there is Chinese all over the place. Reading is good as you can use Chinese books together with Chinese audio books to increase your literacy and language at the same time. Watch cdramas to get used to the feel of the language and if it’s simple stuff that you have covered you will find yourself understanding those parts. Once your reading skill is up to it use mandarin subtitles for the dramas instead of your local language even if you miss bits you will find yourself accidentally learning more. The key is listening and that can be the hardest part. Enable Chinese on your phone or pc so you can search for topics you like on UA-cam they will be in Taiwanese mandarin but it helps to hear native sentences even if the tones are different sometimes. They also use traditional characters which can be confusing but are useful to learn 什么 vs 什麼 is an example. There are a few videos from the mainland on UA-cam too so look out for those. I do these and while I’m getting better at understanding conversation because I don’t have an opportunity to talk my spoken is not great. So I recommend getting a language partner there are apps for that as well as sites if you are willing to spend money. Also practice writing in it on your phone if you use pinyin to type it will force you to remember the words so you can find them but it is frustrating when you can’t remember but you know it. Good luck
@@NinaT-g1c It is more of a political/historical reason that Mandarin was chosen as the official language(Beijing as the capital). For those who are interested n learning Chinese, I can't be the judge to say whether Mandarin or Cantonese is easier cuz I'm from Hong Kong and Cantonese is my mother tongue but in terms of written form, Simplified Chinese is easier to learn cuz is less complicated. At the same time Traditional Chinese keeps the original forms of Chinese which have evolved over tue course of 1000 years. Just Google the pros and cons(welp pls ignore the political arguments) of both form and you will find out which suits you better.
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
"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.
Admirable que haya llegado a nivel B2 aunque le haya costado años. De estos idiomas tan orientales, yo deseo aprender coreano (debido al alfabeto menos complicado en comparación con el japonés o los chinos (mandarín y cantonés)). Ya domino otros dos alfabetos además del latino: el cirílico y el árabe pero apenas soy principiante en ambos idiomas. También deseo aprender bahasa (conocido como indonesio o malayo porque son el mismo idioma, y el nombre original es bahasa) pero este sí usa el alfabeto latino. Pero sé que debo desarrollar una técnica correcta para aprender palabras de raíces tan diferentes. En cambio el japonés y los chinos son muy memorísticos con tantos caracteres o símbolos.
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.
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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
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 😄
I also learned Japanese first because I lived there for a while when I was younger. Then I learned Korean when I went to live there for a couple years after graduating high school. I currently speak both at the same level (ACTFL advanced high), and I generally found that Korean grammar was a little bit more "regular" than Japanese grammar. There were fewer verb conjugation patterns and irregular verbs to memorize, which made it much easier to use new vocabulary words with confidence while learning. Japanese is also potentially a much bigger investment if you plan to be literate and learn the kanji. Knowing hanja in Korean is helpful but far from necessary (more akin to how knowing Greek and Latin roots can be helpful in English). Both are incredible languages and very worth learning! I can't speak for Chinese because I don't speak it ^^;;
When I started learning Korean it was the second language that didn't use roman characters. The first I learned was Hebrew and I expected the difficulty as far as learning the letters to be fairly similar but oh my god Korean was so much easier. It took me years to be able to read and write smoothly in Hebrew and only about a month in Korean. I know part of that is just that learning each new language will be easier than the last, but Korean is just objectively so much simpler and it's awesome.
Hey! It's great to read your message. I'm currently studying Hebrew at university - about a year, on a language course - and I recently discovered Korean and I became very curious about the language. I also think the writing is beautiful, I like reading books and maybe the culture is interesting too (like most of the people, I know more about Japan - Korea is for me an "unknown land" - and I'm interested in Buddhism). MY QUESTION: Do you think if I want to master both languages that it is better to concentrate on Hebrew first? I would like to be able to read and speak Hebrew well, with Korean reading would be most important (speaking and understanding should be difficult, I think it wouldn't be my priority...). Greetings from a Brazilian guy in Berlin and thank you a lot for your answer! :)
@@augustooliveira8689 generally as far as learning languages goes I would try to focus on one at a time, so if you’ve already started learning Hebrew I would stick with it for the time being. However, if you haven’t started and you’re specifically interested in learning about Buddhism I would recommend Korean. As far as difficulty goes the Hangul alphabet is far easier to learn but it’s grammar and pronunciation are quite a bit harder than that of Hebrew, particularly if you aren’t used to East Asian languages. I say this coming from a native US English speaker and a Jew so I’ve been hearing Hebrew my whole life.
@@josephvinik2476 Many thanks for your response. I've already started with Hebrew. I think the pronunciation is okay too, just reading is a different story. It is tempting to do it all at once, but I will be patient because of Korean and enjoy Hebrew now; I hope it works. By the way I love grammar. Asian languages work very differently, of course, but I've already learned Latin, German and a bit of Czech. I think I could do it with Korean grammar too, and being able to read Korean would be my main goal. Todah rabah again! :)
Cool that you learned Hebrew.. I'm from Israel, I love kpop, since a year, now. I know a little Korean. to read, write and some basic words/phrases. I'm starting to learn Japenese, the alphabet..... Maybe If I'll knew Korean and Japenese better one day, I'll consider learning Mandarin.
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’d say that from an English speaking perspective Japanese and Korean kind of sound the same in its fast and speedy way of talking however Chinese sounds very distinct with it sounding slower and more effort put into pronouncing the words.
I'm a native Mandarin speaker. I have to say the character part (writing) is even challenging for us after leaving school. The largest amount of characters I could write and write quickly and smoothly was in high school while preparing for the gaokao exam. But once you enter workplace and start typing more, oh man, it's so easy to forget how to hand write, because it's not phonetic!! I now have to check dictionary or rely on auto-correct function for certain characters.
true bro I'm chinses too and yeah it's so rough to write them since i left the school even I'm in college now i don't write them on paper anymore or few times only typing on phone or keyboard
@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)
@@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.
I've only been studying Japanese for one year but in that time, I can easily read all three alphabets of it (only kanji that actually know) I can notice kanji I might know in Chinese such as the kanji for "to eat" and I can hear the difference between all three languages since I study Japanese, watch Korean UA-cam videos every here and there, and listened to C-pop(Chinese pop) for a few months. I think that every language is EXTREMELY easy to learn as long as you just stay immersed with it and try to pick up things every so often when you can.
I'm a Korean student studying both Japanese and Chinese. (Absoluuuutely English too) Korean is very easy to read and write but hard to understand correctly and pronounce. Same letters and they look same, but different meanings, a little different pronunciation. Also its grammar is extremely difficult so even Koreans often make mistakes. Japanese, easy to read and write, easy to pronounce, not easy that much grammar(much easier than Korean) but Japanese always use Chinese characters. The problem is that Chinese characters are pronounced in various ways and newb including me have difficulties with choosing the right pronunciation of Chinese characters. Chinese, difficult to read, write, pronounce, understand but it has super easy grammar. Starting is harder than the others but only the starting.
@@JJ-kp6ee 예 맞아요. 중국어는 미국인들에게도 어렵다고 생각해요. 한국어를 잘 발음할 줄 알아요 하지만 중국어 불가능한 언어입니당 ㅋㅋ. 사실... 제 생각에 세상에서 한국어는 가장 아름다운 언어입니다! 언젠가 한국어를 완전히 배우고 싶어요. 현재 한국어 잘 못합니다.
@@alexfriedman2047 한국어에는 '연음'이라는 시스템이 있는데 그 시스템때문에 신라 -> 실라 , 원래 -> 월래 이렇게 되는거예요 연음은 간단히 말해 복잡한 발음을 부드럽게 말하는 거라고 보시면 됩니다 ~ 영어로 설명하는게 더 이해가 잘되실것같지만 제가 영어를 못해서 죄송 😭
@@kimurahundoshi4485 아 예 맞아요. 연음은 진짜 쉽다고 생각해요. 근데.. 이 예는 특별히 혼란스럽습니다. "조선로" -----> = "조선노" NOT 조설로. 왜요? 한자 때문이에요? 예 영어도 어려워요 하지만 당신 열심히 공부하면 꼭 영어를 완전히 배울 수 있을 겁니다! 3년 동안 한국어 공부를 하다 말다 했어요. 한국을 진짜 좋아해요. 대부분의 철자 규칙을 잘 이해해요 하지만 원어민처럼 말할 수 없죠?
I am trying to learn how to read Hangul and it looks like it's not so hard (probably easier for me than learn cyrillic which I gave up several times), but I am still confused by that you writte some letter same like p/b, d/t, l/r, k/g, č/dž (written in czech alphabet), so you must know the word and know how if it's t or d or something. Also, I still confuse symbol for K/G and N. I also noticed that some letters very different in different fonts, on internet, printed on korean products etc....ofcourse that's valid even for latin based alphabets and English is not the best example of good latin alphabet, their spelling is completely random. 🙂 I like that Korean langauge can skip subject when it's obvious, that's same in Czech and it's more natural for me than how it is in English or Russian when they constantly repeat I, you, we, they...it sounds very funny especially in Russian because it's slavic langauge same as Czech, so I can understand something and it's really funny how they constantly repeat I in almost every sentence, that's considered rude and egocentric in Czech when you speak like that.
@@暗夜骑士-w6l 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
In my experience, Korean is the easiest of these (if easy is what you're going for). These are all among the top hardest languages for Native English Speakers to learn, so there is going to be a challenge in some regard anyway. If you want something easy to read and write, Korean. Something easy to pronounce, Japanese. Something with easy/simple grammar, go for Chinese. The reason I say Korean is the easiest is because the conjugations are far easier and fewer than in Spanish or German (by that I mean you only change the object of the sentence, not the verb _and_ object). There are also no masculine or feminine nouns (aside from pronouns like man or woman). His/hers/he/she/her also don't exist. Once you have the pronunciation down (which takes a while!!!) and basic grammar, it's pretty much smooth sailing from there! However, I also think that you should learn the Hanja (Korean word for Chinese characters) as that is also very helpful for learning vocabulary in both Chinese and Korean!
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.
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. 😂
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
All 3 are beautiful languages that have difficulties of their own so I think it's really up to how much passion you have for a certain language and the country's culture too. Some people love Japan, some people love Korea and so on.
Hangul and Kana are on alphabets, they are syllabaries. Alphabets and syllabaries are both systems of writing, but they differ in how they represent the basic units of sound in a language. Alphabet: An alphabet is a writing system in which each symbol (letter) represents a single sound or phoneme. The basic units of writing in an alphabet are individual letters, each typically corresponding to a consonant or a vowel sound. Examples of languages that use alphabets include English, Spanish, and Greek. Syllabary: A syllabary is a writing system in which each symbol represents a syllable, a unit of sound that typically consists of a consonant and a vowel. In a syllabary, characters represent combinations of consonant and vowel sounds, making them inherently more complex than individual letters in an alphabet. Examples of languages that use syllabaries include Japanese (kana) and Cherokee. In summary, the main difference lies in what the basic unit of representation is. In an alphabet, it's individual sounds or phonemes (usually consonants and vowels), while in a syllabary, it's entire syllables.
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
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 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!
I'm studying chinese and japanese. In my opinion Japanese is way more difficult than Chinese because each Kanji has different pronunciations according to different situations while in Chinese every character has 1 pronunciation (there are some expections but they're not a lot)
Hi, I am happy to see you are learning both chineses and japanese. But, acutally, chinese words also has different pronunciations according to different situations. For example， “乐”. When you pronunce it as "le" with fourth tone, it means happy. But when you pronunce it as "yue" with fourth tone, it means music.
Adding on to Wood Xu's comment. "音乐"also means music but “音”is defined as sound, "乐不思蜀" is a typical Chinese idiom, there are 16 idiom with "乐" in it, each character's pronunciation is completely different, plus, you can't pronounce the word if you have never learned it before, you also need to learn "pinyin" before you learn any complicate words and there are 413 pinyin, the purpose of pinyin is they combine to each other to form the pronunciation. in fact, 2, 3, 4, 5 or even 6 different pronunciation can be found in some Chinese characters.
As a Chinese native speaker who is learning Japanese, I totally agree with you. Not only the pronunciation of kanjis, but also their grammar is way more difficult than Chinese.
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.
It is very incredible that when you learned JPN, you will know KR's grammar. (vice versa) When you learned CN, you will also know many JP's words' meaning. (vice versa) It was like if you have learned one of them, it would be such a pity not to learn the rest of them.
I am not Japanese but I know how to speak Chinese so I will take a guess, does it mean Japanese pronunciation is very simple, ----Korean and Chinese is ------- respectful and easy to read.
@@KD-qt4md "(Your) Pronunciation of Japanese is really good, that's surprising me! Unfortunately, I don't understand Chinese and Korean. I think this guy just works very hard on these languages, my respect!" That's what he means. The same Kanji(漢字) between Japanese and Chinese(Mandarin) sometimes does not have the same meaning (or I should to say most of them are different). For example a word in this sentence "勉強" in Chinese means “grudgingly” or "reluctantly", but in Japanese it means "study".The word "本当" in Japanese means "Really" but in Chinese it means "It should be" or something like that.
@@vans2721 I really don't know what to say, thank you. I really never knew these before I feel like, I just had some kinda lessons. Thank you so much! I think you're probably Japanese right? I just want to say I love Japan I'd love to go visit Japan sometimes. have a very good day/night. :D
I agree about learning Japanese first. I learned Japanese, and then years later studied Korean and was able to pick it up quickly because I had a better understanding of the grammar and routes of the language. I am now learning Chinese and whilst it is difficult getting my head around a different grammar system, I am able to learn more quickly through reading because I already have a good understanding of many characters. Japanese is still my favourite though, it sounds beautiful and I love the intricate writing system :)
@@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✨
Korean: easy to learn, read (I'm on my way) and write Japanese: I think it's easy to learn I already try once, learning the "hirigana" and I memorized the characters but I forgot it already it's almost 10 months that I didn't study hirigana already... Chinese: hard to learn, write and read...(how to study mandarin tho, any idea?)
@@kimhyunn Philippines tho...I already know how to read hangeul and to write it...and I'm starting to learn it one by one and I'm on my way tho it's hard to memorize each word that's why i need someone who are good in Korean and willing to teach me I use "Hello Talk"
The 4 tones of Chinese may scare many Beginners of Mandarin. But it actually isn't that important. I heard many foreigners speak Chinese in the wrong tones, but in most cases, Chinese people may still get what they mean without any problems, except that they may sound a little bit strange. The most difficult part of Chinese is actually writing the characters, you have to memorize the basic words (dozens of hundreds) one by one for a long time. As to grammar, Mandarin is very similar to English.
I've actually found reading and writing to be far easier than speaking and listening. Skritter is an amazing app for learning the characters in both simplified and Chinese. Meanwhile with listening, it can be very easy to mix things up. 14 sounds extremely similar to 40. Notification sounds incredibly similar to the slang term for "homosexual". Hometown and "excuse me" are incredibly similar. Dumplings and sleep. etc etc etc. And not to forget the famous "Please kiss me" vs "Pardon me/may I ask" In my experience, Chinese native speakers won't have a problem understanding you if you give them standard phrases or typical tourist lines/questions, but if you want to have a longer/deeper conversation, it'll be a big problem.
As a Chinese who also speaks Japanese, I can say you don't need to learn how to write Chinese characters as long as you can recognize them, because how often does one actually write them these days?! If you speak Mandarin you will be able to type in Pinyin and all decent input methods can infer which characters to input. What’s even better is that very often you only need to type the initial consonant of each character for your every-day speech! For example, to type “Have you had your meal today” we only need to literally type “njtcflm” (from “ni jintian chifan le ma”) and the sentence “你今天吃飯了嗎” will appear! On phonology, the pronunciation of characters in Japanese and Korean usually mimics that in Old Chinese, which are preserved better in southern Chinese languages/dialects, as Mandarin has shifted a lot from the old pronunciation.
@Damian Wójcikiewicz Not sure 500 is enough or not, maybe 1500 for daily life. But characters are not all independent. They are related or derived from another. I would skip writing practices altogether if I were learning Chinese.
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 😅
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.
@@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
@@Jess-ip2fx But Ben is talking about pitch accent, not individual consonant or vowel sounds. You may have similar sounds as Japanese from your native language, but not the pitch accent. You're still not going to sound correct when speaking Japanese. And I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem that Portuguese has a pitch accent from what I've read. It's something entirely new you'd have to learn and it can be quite difficult.
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
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!!
"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*
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
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.
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
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
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
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。
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.
@@梅天培 thank you, I will take this into thought
@No Japan비스마르크 if you feel that way.
“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
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🤞
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.
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.
In the first fifteen seconds he literally pinned my entire conflicting thoughts wtf
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
you forgot to mention that if you learn korean, you get to go to north korea which is the greatest country in the world
I like East Korea just a tiny bit more...
@@DesmondBoone-hp8so Hmm, true… alright we’ll compromise with southwest korea
I will stick with Latin Korea
언어학 전공하셨나... 굉장히 핵심들 딱딱 짚으시고 공통점 차이점을 잘 설명해주시네
ㅇㅈㅇㅈ ㅎㅎㅎ
진짜 영상보면서 소름돋음 개멋있다
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.
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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
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.
Quick, clear and very helpful. Love this video
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
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,
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
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
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.
Him recommending to start with Japanese but I’m already deep into korean. 👁👄👁
It's still good. That means you'll have an easier time learning Japanese. Either way you're doing great!
Same Bro same
@Joëlle Weetjewel 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.
@Joëlle Weetjewel Yeah for sure. Are you studying Japanese? Romanization sucks for sure. It's so bad to use roman for Korean or Japanese.... it just simply does not work and there is no way to really show the reader what the sounds are.
Anyway I always think it's funny when I see comments that kids make that are like "omg Korean is sooo easy" Or "Hangul is sooo easy to learn , I learned it in 30 mins!" And it's just like yeah obviously those kids never got passed complete noobies stage of kinda sorta knowing the alphabet and knowing a few words. If they actually studied Korean they wouldn't be saying it was so easy. It is nice to not have to learn Kanji though. I'm not a big believer in Hanja learning. For Japanese in it's current state you kinda have to learn Kanji but for Korean it's weird like it does help you a lot but also you never use it, so it's just to gain a better understanding of the language.
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
"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
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
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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. :
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😀
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.
I just came across this terrific video and I'll look for more. I first studied Korean in the 1970s when I lived in South Korea for a couple of years. At that time, Koreans still used almost 2,000 Chinese characters to supplement native Korean written in Hangul. When I came back to the US, I studied Japanese, which was very easy for me because I had the base of Korean grammar and some Chinese characters, and the pronunciation was much easier than Korean. And then, a couple of years later, I moved to Singapore and started studying Chinese. Now I mostly focus on Chinese, but refresh Korean and Japanese from time to time. Knowing all three has been fascinating.
Ur lucky that's my only dream( to learn Chinese, korean, and Japanese.)
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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
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.
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
im a native speaker of Korean and went to school in China. Your Korean pronunciation is actually really good and your Chinese tones are really good as well. so surprised. good on ua
哇
I'm a native Japanese. His Japanese is also very good as if he has lived in Japan for five or six years.
Only his Chinese is not that great... I know a little Japanese and his translation of I eat rice seems good but the Chinese one is just so awkward
I want to be a businesswoman who can communicate with lots of people so I think Chinese is the best option to learn BUT I indulge myself in so much Korean media that I already know some vocab and grammar so that may be the easiest for me to learn. Finally, there is Japanese which I really love how it sounds. Difficult decision for me. If I were to choose two to learn though… I think my best bet is Korean and Chinese
As a business women, you should defiantly start learning chinese first. It will really help boost your career!!
Chinese grammar is very simple.It's just that Chinese characters are hard to remember.
I recommend you learning in order of chinese->japanese->korean.Both japanese and korean are effected by the chinese characters,so if you learn chinese first,it will be way easier than learning japanese or korean as your second language.
But Chinese is very hard to get right when speaking, people focus a lot on the tones (which is very hard), but even if you get the tones right but you don’t group words naturally, then you really are going to have a hard time communicating well. 😢 Here’s the thing to success in anything: Hardwork, perseverance, passion, and diligence. They are interconnected, you can not succeed for long if you even have one of those missing.
@@marooqkhan yoww i need to learn languages while im still young so when i grew up
Im prepared for my dream thank u
와… 한중일 3개국어를 모두 수준급으로 구사하기가 쉽지 않으셨을텐데 ㄷㄷ 대단하네요
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영어까지 4국어.. 대단..
와...
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 근데 닉이ㅎㅎ
@@aevs 소통가능정도면 4개국어임
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
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 🎶
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
I've started Mandarin, and it's hard (looking for more resources to use, if anyone has recommendations), but I think it's rewarding. The script is beautiful with so many stories behind it (especially traditional, even if it is tougher to learn). Even if it takes a long time to master, being able to recognise a few characters is very satisfying. As is saying a sentence to a native speaker and having then understand. The tones aren't as horrendous as one might think (although I believe Cantonese has more)!
I've just started learning mandarin and looking for new resources to use as well. I study mostly on youtube for free with a channel called mandarin corner. So far, it does help a lot for a beginner like me. What is your first language by the way?
Thank you for the recommendation! I'll go and check it out :)
My first languages are English and Italian. I'm half and half :)
What about you?
actually all the southern Chinese dialects like Cantonese has more tones than Mandarin, they kept most ancient Chinese tones than Mandrian, the ancient Chinese had 10 tones lol, this is also why Mandrian is the official language in China, fewer tones is much easier for everyone to learn and communicate, also if you have learned simplified Chinese character and you want to read something in traditional Chinese character you still could understand it, I'm not saying when someone started to learn Chinese must learn simplified Chinese character but it's easier for non-Chinese speaker to get started with
Use language apps to get you up to speed with writing (also you should buy a book to draw the characters yourself). Once you know how to read you will find there is Chinese all over the place. Reading is good as you can use Chinese books together with Chinese audio books to increase your literacy and language at the same time.
Watch cdramas to get used to the feel of the language and if it’s simple stuff that you have covered you will find yourself understanding those parts. Once your reading skill is up to it use mandarin subtitles for the dramas instead of your local language even if you miss bits you will find yourself accidentally learning more.
The key is listening and that can be the hardest part. Enable Chinese on your phone or pc so you can search for topics you like on UA-cam they will be in Taiwanese mandarin but it helps to hear native sentences even if the tones are different sometimes. They also use traditional characters which can be confusing but are useful to learn 什么 vs 什麼 is an example. There are a few videos from the mainland on UA-cam too so look out for those.
I do these and while I’m getting better at understanding conversation because I don’t have an opportunity to talk my spoken is not great. So I recommend getting a language partner there are apps for that as well as sites if you are willing to spend money. Also practice writing in it on your phone if you use pinyin to type it will force you to remember the words so you can find them but it is frustrating when you can’t remember but you know it. Good luck
@@NinaT-g1c It is more of a political/historical reason that Mandarin was chosen as the official language(Beijing as the capital).
For those who are interested n learning Chinese, I can't be the judge to say whether Mandarin or Cantonese is easier cuz I'm from Hong Kong and Cantonese is my mother tongue but in terms of written form, Simplified Chinese is easier to learn cuz is less complicated. At the same time Traditional Chinese keeps the original forms of Chinese which have evolved over tue course of 1000 years. Just Google the pros and cons(welp pls ignore the political arguments) of both form and you will find out which suits you better.
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
How much progress you made ?
Your Korean pronunciation is so perfect! Great!
"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.
@@에코는잘해 金歳民
Güzel Güzel ㅋㅋ 🤣
True 😂😂😂😂
I’ve been studying Korean for years and I still am a b2 at most and this guy flexes with three languages as if nothing, man I’m jealous
Admirable que haya llegado a nivel B2 aunque le haya costado años. De estos idiomas tan orientales, yo deseo aprender coreano (debido al alfabeto menos complicado en comparación con el japonés o los chinos (mandarín y cantonés)). Ya domino otros dos alfabetos además del latino: el cirílico y el árabe pero apenas soy principiante en ambos idiomas. También deseo aprender bahasa (conocido como indonesio o malayo porque son el mismo idioma, y el nombre original es bahasa) pero este sí usa el alfabeto latino. Pero sé que debo desarrollar una técnica correcta para aprender palabras de raíces tan diferentes. En cambio el japonés y los chinos son muy memorísticos con tantos caracteres o símbolos.
4, you forgot english.
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.
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
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♡♡
"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 😄
I also learned Japanese first because I lived there for a while when I was younger. Then I learned Korean when I went to live there for a couple years after graduating high school. I currently speak both at the same level (ACTFL advanced high), and I generally found that Korean grammar was a little bit more "regular" than Japanese grammar. There were fewer verb conjugation patterns and irregular verbs to memorize, which made it much easier to use new vocabulary words with confidence while learning. Japanese is also potentially a much bigger investment if you plan to be literate and learn the kanji. Knowing hanja in Korean is helpful but far from necessary (more akin to how knowing Greek and Latin roots can be helpful in English). Both are incredible languages and very worth learning!
I can't speak for Chinese because I don't speak it ^^;;
When I started learning Korean it was the second language that didn't use roman characters. The first I learned was Hebrew and I expected the difficulty as far as learning the letters to be fairly similar but oh my god Korean was so much easier. It took me years to be able to read and write smoothly in Hebrew and only about a month in Korean. I know part of that is just that learning each new language will be easier than the last, but Korean is just objectively so much simpler and it's awesome.
Hey! It's great to read your message. I'm currently studying Hebrew at university - about a year, on a language course - and I recently discovered Korean and I became very curious about the language. I also think the writing is beautiful, I like reading books and maybe the culture is interesting too (like most of the people, I know more about Japan - Korea is for me an "unknown land" - and I'm interested in Buddhism). MY QUESTION: Do you think if I want to master both languages that it is better to concentrate on Hebrew first? I would like to be able to read and speak Hebrew well, with Korean reading would be most important (speaking and understanding should be difficult, I think it wouldn't be my priority...). Greetings from a Brazilian guy in Berlin and thank you a lot for your answer! :)
@@augustooliveira8689 generally as far as learning languages goes I would try to focus on one at a time, so if you’ve already started learning Hebrew I would stick with it for the time being. However, if you haven’t started and you’re specifically interested in learning about Buddhism I would recommend Korean. As far as difficulty goes the Hangul alphabet is far easier to learn but it’s grammar and pronunciation are quite a bit harder than that of Hebrew, particularly if you aren’t used to East Asian languages. I say this coming from a native US English speaker and a Jew so I’ve been hearing Hebrew my whole life.
@@josephvinik2476 Many thanks for your response. I've already started with Hebrew. I think the pronunciation is okay too, just reading is a different story. It is tempting to do it all at once, but I will be patient because of Korean and enjoy Hebrew now; I hope it works.
By the way I love grammar. Asian languages work very differently, of course, but I've already learned Latin, German and a bit of Czech. I think I could do it with Korean grammar too, and being able to read Korean would be my main goal. Todah rabah again! :)
Cool that you learned Hebrew..
I'm from Israel, I love kpop, since a year, now. I know a little Korean. to read, write and some basic words/phrases.
I'm starting to learn Japenese, the alphabet..... Maybe If I'll knew Korean and Japenese better one day, I'll consider learning Mandarin.
This is so funny because the two languages I'm learning on Duolingo right now are Korean and Hebrew
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.
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
I’d say that from an English speaking perspective Japanese and Korean kind of sound the same in its fast and speedy way of talking however Chinese sounds very distinct with it sounding slower and more effort put into pronouncing the words.
I'm a native Mandarin speaker. I have to say the character part (writing) is even challenging for us after leaving school. The largest amount of characters I could write and write quickly and smoothly was in high school while preparing for the gaokao exam. But once you enter workplace and start typing more, oh man, it's so easy to forget how to hand write, because it's not phonetic!! I now have to check dictionary or rely on auto-correct function for certain characters.
true bro I'm chinses too and yeah it's so rough to write them since i left the school even I'm in college now i don't write them on paper anymore or few times only typing on phone or keyboard
Same I always speak Chinese and it is so fluent . But when I hand write my Chinese characters, it’s a little bit hard
@@3kyou382 两个中国人用英语交流😂
@@yhs-ix7jm 没事，国际平台，让外国人能够理解也是好的
@@yhs-ix7jm 哈哈 淦 在油管打中文
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)
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
I've only been studying Japanese for one year but in that time, I can easily read all three alphabets of it (only kanji that actually know) I can notice kanji I might know in Chinese such as the kanji for "to eat" and I can hear the difference between all three languages since I study Japanese, watch Korean UA-cam videos every here and there, and listened to C-pop(Chinese pop) for a few months. I think that every language is EXTREMELY easy to learn as long as you just stay immersed with it and try to pick up things every so often when you can.
I'm a Korean student studying both Japanese and Chinese. (Absoluuuutely English too)
Korean is very easy to read and write but hard to understand correctly and pronounce. Same letters and they look same, but different meanings, a little different pronunciation. Also its grammar is extremely difficult so even Koreans often make mistakes.
Japanese, easy to read and write, easy to pronounce, not easy that much grammar(much easier than Korean) but Japanese always use Chinese characters. The problem is that Chinese characters are pronounced in various ways and newb including me have difficulties with choosing the right pronunciation of Chinese characters.
Chinese, difficult to read, write, pronounce, understand but it has super easy grammar. Starting is harder than the others but only the starting.
한국인 입장에선 일본문법이 쉽고 중국문법이 어려울듯..
@@JJ-kp6ee 예 맞아요. 중국어는 미국인들에게도 어렵다고 생각해요. 한국어를 잘 발음할 줄 알아요 하지만 중국어 불가능한 언어입니당 ㅋㅋ. 사실... 제 생각에 세상에서 한국어는 가장 아름다운 언어입니다! 언젠가 한국어를 완전히 배우고 싶어요. 현재 한국어 잘 못합니다.
@@alexfriedman2047 한국어에는 '연음'이라는 시스템이 있는데 그 시스템때문에 신라 -> 실라 , 원래 -> 월래
이렇게 되는거예요
연음은 간단히 말해 복잡한 발음을 부드럽게 말하는 거라고 보시면 됩니다 ~
영어로 설명하는게 더 이해가 잘되실것같지만 제가 영어를 못해서 죄송 😭
@@kimurahundoshi4485 아 예 맞아요. 연음은 진짜 쉽다고 생각해요. 근데.. 이 예는 특별히 혼란스럽습니다. "조선로" -----> = "조선노" NOT 조설로. 왜요? 한자 때문이에요?
예 영어도 어려워요 하지만 당신 열심히 공부하면 꼭 영어를 완전히 배울 수 있을 겁니다!
3년 동안 한국어 공부를 하다 말다 했어요. 한국을 진짜 좋아해요. 대부분의 철자 규칙을 잘 이해해요 하지만 원어민처럼 말할 수 없죠?
I am trying to learn how to read Hangul and it looks like it's not so hard (probably easier for me than learn cyrillic which I gave up several times), but I am still confused by that you writte some letter same like p/b, d/t, l/r, k/g, č/dž (written in czech alphabet), so you must know the word and know how if it's t or d or something. Also, I still confuse symbol for K/G and N. I also noticed that some letters very different in different fonts, on internet, printed on korean products etc....ofcourse that's valid even for latin based alphabets and English is not the best example of good latin alphabet, their spelling is completely random. 🙂 I like that Korean langauge can skip subject when it's obvious, that's same in Czech and it's more natural for me than how it is in English or Russian when they constantly repeat I, you, we, they...it sounds very funny especially in Russian because it's slavic langauge same as Czech, so I can understand something and it's really funny how they constantly repeat I in almost every sentence, that's considered rude and egocentric in Czech when you speak like that.
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
@@暗夜骑士-w6l 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
@@暗夜骑士-w6l 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
In my experience, Korean is the easiest of these (if easy is what you're going for).
These are all among the top hardest languages for Native English Speakers to learn, so there is going to be a challenge in some regard anyway.
If you want something easy to read and write, Korean. Something easy to pronounce, Japanese. Something with easy/simple grammar, go for Chinese.
The reason I say Korean is the easiest is because the conjugations are far easier and fewer than in Spanish or German (by that I mean you only change the object of the sentence, not the verb _and_ object).
There are also no masculine or feminine nouns (aside from pronouns like man or woman). His/hers/he/she/her also don't exist. Once you have the pronunciation down (which takes a while!!!) and basic grammar, it's pretty much smooth sailing from there! However, I also think that you should learn the Hanja (Korean word for Chinese characters) as that is also very helpful for learning vocabulary in both Chinese and Korean!
Confirmo
I think you missed the part of the video which said the Korean grammar and Japanese grammar are basically identical.
@@VoxRationisSum I didn't say anything about them having different grammar?
This was really helpful i was looking for information of this kind
@@nahomylopez9646 I'm glad I could be of assistance!
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.
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?
All 3 are beautiful languages that have difficulties of their own so I think it's really up to how much passion you have for a certain language and the country's culture too. Some people love Japan, some people love Korea and so on.
me who just learned enough words to sing gangnam style:
"I'm four parallel universes ahead of you"
Najanimjasaranghae monshing chonshing gongsha... Blah blah oppaa Gangnam Style
@@yesor3973 😂💀
Hangul and Kana are on alphabets, they are syllabaries.
Alphabets and syllabaries are both systems of writing, but they differ in how they represent the basic units of sound in a language.
Alphabet:
An alphabet is a writing system in which each symbol (letter) represents a single sound or phoneme.
The basic units of writing in an alphabet are individual letters, each typically corresponding to a consonant or a vowel sound.
Examples of languages that use alphabets include English, Spanish, and Greek.
Syllabary:
A syllabary is a writing system in which each symbol represents a syllable, a unit of sound that typically consists of a consonant and a vowel.
In a syllabary, characters represent combinations of consonant and vowel sounds, making them inherently more complex than individual letters in an alphabet.
Examples of languages that use syllabaries include Japanese (kana) and Cherokee.
In summary, the main difference lies in what the basic unit of representation is. In an alphabet, it's individual sounds or phonemes (usually consonants and vowels), while in a syllabary, it's entire syllables.
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
First video to watch, can speak at least 4 languages, handsome, and smart. Big respect for you
He's really good to make the pronunciation of Korean.
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!
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.
I'm studying chinese and japanese. In my opinion Japanese is way more difficult than Chinese because each Kanji has different pronunciations according to different situations while in Chinese every character has 1 pronunciation (there are some expections but they're not a lot)
I totally disagree with you
Hi, I am happy to see you are learning both chineses and japanese. But, acutally, chinese words also has different pronunciations according to different situations. For example， “乐”. When you pronunce it as "le" with fourth tone, it means happy. But when you pronunce it as "yue" with fourth tone, it means music.
Adding on to Wood Xu's comment. "音乐"also means music but “音”is defined as sound, "乐不思蜀" is a typical Chinese idiom, there are 16 idiom with "乐" in it, each character's pronunciation is completely different, plus, you can't pronounce the word if you have never learned it before, you also need to learn "pinyin" before you learn any complicate words and there are 413 pinyin, the purpose of pinyin is they combine to each other to form the pronunciation. in fact, 2, 3, 4, 5 or even 6 different pronunciation can be found in some Chinese characters.
As a Chinese native speaker who is learning Japanese, I totally agree with you. Not only the pronunciation of kanjis, but also their grammar is way more difficult than Chinese.
I’m Japanese.
First of all,You should learn Hiragana.
"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✧
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.
It is very incredible that when you learned JPN, you will know KR's grammar. (vice versa) When you learned CN, you will also know many JP's words' meaning. (vice versa) It was like if you have learned one of them, it would be such a pity not to learn the rest of them.
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’m Korean. Your Korean pronunciation is perfect. Wow!!!
1:40 一応日本語のネイティブなので少し引っかかったんですが、「私が」ではなく「私は」の方が自然です。前者だとニュアンス的には「たくさん人がその場にいる中で食べるのは私。他の人は食べない」みたいな感じになります。英語のリスニング練習になりました。ありがとうございました。
그런 뉘앙스로 보자면 한국어도 일본어와 같군요. 한국어를 사용할때에도 ”나는“ 혹은 ”저는“을 사용하는 것이 자연스러워 보입니다.
日本語の発音が本当に上手でびっくりしました！残念ながら私は韓国語や中国語のことは分からないのですが、この方が沢山勉強されたのだと思うと尊敬の念でいっぱいです！
I am not Japanese but I know how to speak Chinese so I will take a guess, does it mean Japanese pronunciation is very simple, ----Korean and Chinese is ------- respectful and easy to read.
한국어도 잘하심 ㅋㅋ
@@KD-qt4md "(Your) Pronunciation of Japanese is really good, that's surprising me! Unfortunately, I don't understand Chinese and Korean. I think this guy just works very hard on these languages, my respect!" That's what he means. The same Kanji(漢字) between Japanese and Chinese(Mandarin) sometimes does not have the same meaning (or I should to say most of them are different). For example a word in this sentence "勉強" in Chinese means “grudgingly” or "reluctantly", but in Japanese it means "study".The word "本当" in Japanese means "Really" but in Chinese it means "It should be" or something like that.
@@vans2721 I really don't know what to say, thank you. I really never knew these before I feel like, I just had some kinda lessons. Thank you so much! I think you're probably Japanese right? I just want to say I love Japan I'd love to go visit Japan sometimes.
have a very good day/night. :D
悪くは無いけど上手ってほどかな… でもDogenさんみたいな人がいるから言ってるだけかもしれんけど
This dude is a pure lingual god. Or some kind of triple agent in Northeast Asia.
I can totally see him being a spy agent
이것이 바로 언어 천재의 모습인가..너무 대단하심
@사람 ㅋㅋㅋ
I love everything about japan also Japanese language but the kanji made me wanna cry so I'm thinking to start chinese maybe it's easier
I agree about learning Japanese first. I learned Japanese, and then years later studied Korean and was able to pick it up quickly because I had a better understanding of the grammar and routes of the language. I am now learning Chinese and whilst it is difficult getting my head around a different grammar system, I am able to learn more quickly through reading because I already have a good understanding of many characters. Japanese is still my favourite though, it sounds beautiful and I love the intricate writing system :)
I completely agree. I am still studying Japanese.
Do you know Japanese at an advanced level? How long did you study Japanese before you started studying Korean?
밟다않다닳다많다없다쌌땄빴씄뜼쁬읐
@@bnable パナナ
@@ADeeSHUPA what?
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✨
Korean: easy to learn, read (I'm on my way) and write
Japanese: I think it's easy to learn I already try once, learning the "hirigana" and I memorized the characters but I forgot it already it's almost 10 months that I didn't study hirigana already...
Chinese: hard to learn, write and read...(how to study mandarin tho, any idea?)
Where are you from? I am Korean. I dont think it is easy to learn Korean.
@@kimhyunn Philippines tho...I already know how to read hangeul and to write it...and I'm starting to learn it one by one and I'm on my way tho it's hard to memorize each word that's why i need someone who are good in Korean and willing to teach me I use "Hello Talk"
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@17 153 감사합니다!:)
@지코바 네, 맞아요! :)
I love your channel!!! ❤❤❤
I'm a Native Arabic Speaker and I'm currently learning Chinese! I love it. I hope I can master it asap though :')
Why Arabic's gotta be so hard ??
good luck! i’m trying to learn Arabic but it’s so hard!
加油
If y'all need help, I'm here hehe :)
Great, it will be easier and easier to learn
The 4 tones of Chinese may scare many Beginners of Mandarin. But it actually isn't that important. I heard many foreigners speak Chinese in the wrong tones, but in most cases, Chinese people may still get what they mean without any problems, except that they may sound a little bit strange. The most difficult part of Chinese is actually writing the characters, you have to memorize the basic words (dozens of hundreds) one by one for a long time. As to grammar, Mandarin is very similar to English.
不是突然冒初一句的话，都能理解什么意思。
Mandarin still regarded as the most difficult modern language to learn for native English speakers. Cantonese is even more difficult!!
I've actually found reading and writing to be far easier than speaking and listening. Skritter is an amazing app for learning the characters in both simplified and Chinese. Meanwhile with listening, it can be very easy to mix things up. 14 sounds extremely similar to 40. Notification sounds incredibly similar to the slang term for "homosexual". Hometown and "excuse me" are incredibly similar. Dumplings and sleep. etc etc etc. And not to forget the famous "Please kiss me" vs "Pardon me/may I ask"
In my experience, Chinese native speakers won't have a problem understanding you if you give them standard phrases or typical tourist lines/questions, but if you want to have a longer/deeper conversation, it'll be a big problem.
@@blobba5442 fuzhou dialect is 10 times harder to learn than both mandarin and Cantonese for English speakers.
@@zragon3k 睡覺和水餃，請問和親吻 the more you study Chinese the more you can notice the difference between these
I’m chinese so I naturally know eng and Chinese, I recently finished learning Japanese outside school, and started learning korean! I’m 14 rn
厉害
他忘了講华文有簡體和繁体🌚 我也想要去日本讀書，華人大多都想要去日本韓國的🌚 我13歲🌚
好厉害...
어린나이에 대단하시네요 👍
that's impressive!!!
As a Chinese who also speaks Japanese, I can say you don't need to learn how to write Chinese characters as long as you can recognize them, because how often does one actually write them these days?! If you speak Mandarin you will be able to type in Pinyin and all decent input methods can infer which characters to input. What’s even better is that very often you only need to type the initial consonant of each character for your every-day speech! For example, to type “Have you had your meal today” we only need to literally type “njtcflm” (from “ni jintian chifan le ma”) and
the sentence “你今天吃飯了嗎” will appear!
On phonology, the pronunciation of characters in Japanese and Korean usually mimics that in Old Chinese, which are preserved better in southern Chinese languages/dialects, as Mandarin has shifted a lot from the old pronunciation.
@Damian Wójcikiewicz Not sure 500 is enough or not, maybe 1500 for daily life. But characters are not all independent. They are related or derived from another. I would skip writing practices altogether if I were learning Chinese.
Once out of boredom I pulled out the Korean alphabet from google and was able to memorize in a day
I did the same with Russian. Took about 2 hours of flashcards.
bruh, I pulled that shit out, and I instantly quit. Fuck that shit, either wikipedia trna fuck with me or sum thing dawg.
overall: pick the one that sounds the coolest to you
Japenese 🤔😎
I’ve watched so many cdramas Chinese sounds so similar to me, when I went to learn it I realized I already knew quite a bit
no brainer.
Korean, I'm learning korean right now :) 안녕
Japanese language sounds the cutest,beautiful,polite,elegant,comfortable and pleasant to me.I am also anime fan and i love Japan 🇯🇵🎌❤️💕
3가지 언어에 대한 이해가 상당하시네요. 존경스럽습니다
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 😅