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Which is easier?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-24 8:26

Korean or Japanese?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-24 10:10

If you want to interact with native speakers, Korean, because they are less racist than the Japanese.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-24 19:38

What do you mean by that? Japanese has a ton of resources available to learn online due to weeabos, but it is harder to learn than Korean, which has less resources online.

I recommend this place as a good start:
http://www.mct.go.kr/koreanthroughenglish/chapter01_1.htm

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-24 22:18

Korean has an easier written language but it is fucked as far as grammar is concerned (for English speakers)

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-25 7:21

>>3
Way to miss OP's point.

Name: Korea Eat Dog 2008-04-26 22:34

weighing in all of these factors... its still hard to say,
it also depends on the OPs primary language

Japanese
- 3 different writing scripts
adding up to about  just >5000
- easy to pronounce
- grammatically easy
- plenty or resources to learn from
- language isolate

Korean
- 1 writing script
- difficult to pronounce
- many different accents, which can be
      vastly different from each other
- grammatically fucktarded
- Uses shitloads of Chinese words
- not as many resources to learn from
- Altaic language group so it may be easier if you already familiar with a language in that group

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-27 0:56

I thought Korean was a language isolate?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-27 1:13

>>7
some people think it is.
but unlike japan, Korea was never isolated from the world. In fact its been owned several times by like 100000 other countries over the centuries.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-27 12:22

Korean is the best simply because of the script. C'mon, it's like legos directly translated into a language!

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-27 12:46

JAPANESE IS PIG DISGUSTING

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-27 18:50

>>7
>>8
Actually, there are theories not only connecting Japanese and Korean to each other, but also connecting them both to altaic languages, which also is connected to uralic languages according to some

tl;dr japanese is actually an old finnish dialect

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-27 21:48

>>11
This is correct. The Japanese are actually migrant aliens from the moon and have stolen pieces from a bunch of languages.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-27 23:11

>>11

Yeah I've heard the theories but all the similarities are too superficial, and the differences too great. You can related Finnish to Estonian and Hungarian, so by proxy related Japanese to Hungarian if you wanted to. Its not impossible that the languages are related just unlikely, especially when you consider that there is a giant gap with eastern Europe, and Asian between Japan and  Finland.

tl;dr possible but unlikely    

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-28 8:51

>>13

There's a "massive gap" between Australia and Europe, yet they speak a European language there.

HOW CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE?!!?!

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-28 12:04

>>13
There are very interesting similarities and roots are common in some words etc. Some renowned Russian linguist made this claim, I think. I think it is possible for them to share a common root, but it was so far away that it makes near no difference now.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-29 2:33

>>14
well in that case, compare an aboriginal language to English. i hope you're a troll, because nobody should be that stupid.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-29 14:32

>>16

Natives schmatives
SOMEONE migrated there, recent or not. Unless you're a Christfag who believes in SPONTANEOUS CREATION or some shit. Thus your point is moot.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-29 22:55

>>17
so you are just stupid, and not a troll?
If you look at it, what you are effectively saying is that Finland invaded/colonized Japan.

Notice how Languages within the same geographical area are all similar and share the same entomology? That forms a language group.

So far all you have really said is "NO U" and have failed to actually bring any solid evidence or facts.

for the record, the catholic church recognizes evolution, and for the most part it is only the recently invented Christian church spin offs that deny the possibility of Evolution.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-29 23:49

>>18
The Catholic fucking Church changes what they recognize as correct rather often. I'll bet you that they'll come around to cloning, too.

Name: takkaa 2008-04-30 0:47

Umm, THe gramatical structures in both languages Korean and Japanese are quite difficult. However, Korean uses its alphabet/syllabary more then it uses any chinese characters. So, from that point of view Korean may be easier - though i hear you can conjugate something over 600 different ways >.>

i personally believe Japanese is easier for i hold personal interest in the language and if i were to study Korean, my lack of wanting to would probably make me fail.

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-01 10:45

Korean is a difficult language to romanize.

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-01 12:00

>>18
>Finland colonized Japan

That, or Proto-Altaic split up somewhere in Central Asia and some of the fuckers went to the east and turned into nips and mongols, while others went west and became finnfags and turkfags.

You lump of fail.

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-02 8:05

>>22
wow you are thick

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-15 19:44

The Korean alphabet, hangul or chosongul is easier to learn than all the Japanese kanji. South Koreans sometime use some kanji or as they call them hanja but mostly for historic purposes and almost never in their daily lives. As for the languages I'd say Korean is harder, it has many strange grammar rules.

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-16 3:13

>>24
yeah don't they only use hanja for maps and family names?

>>22
i think what he was getting at is that you compared a language group splitting as opposed to a language spreading unchanged from one county to another. l2read

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