i'm a fluent speaker of both english and chinese. Is japanese more similar to english or chinese (grammatically speaking)? is it easier to learn japanese in english instructions or chinese instructions? thanks!
any personal experiences would help.
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Zhongguohua882007-11-17 5:58
Chinese and English is almost the same grammatically, Japanese is completely different...
Japanese is closer to Korean. Japanese do not have subject-verb-object sentences and is not constructed the same way as Chinese/English is since it is an agglutinative language (search that on wikipedia).
Knowing Chinese hanzi will greatly help you with Japanese since most of the common kanji look like their hanzi equivalent. There are great resources about Japanese written in both English and Chinese so you can take advantage of your language skills and read material available in both languages!
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Anonymous2007-11-18 6:55
yeah knowing Chinese will be a big help, with the shitloads more kanji(or Chinese word for kanji) u would already know from
Chinese. the grammar is more like Korean.
generally speaking it is structured as so...
time + reason/subject + (verb and its tense)
but obviously more complex or you would have a very limited language. this is just a scaled down version