If you want to interact with native speakers, Korean, because they are less racist than the Japanese.
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Anonymous2008-04-24 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.
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
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Anonymous2008-04-27 0:56
I thought Korean was a language isolate?
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Anonymous2008-04-27 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.
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Anonymous2008-04-27 12:22
Korean is the best simply because of the script. C'mon, it's like legos directly translated into a language!
>>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
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Anonymous2008-04-27 21:48
>>11
This is correct. The Japanese are actually migrant aliens from the moon and have stolen pieces from a bunch of languages.
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.
There's a "massive gap" between Australia and Europe, yet they speak a European language there.
HOW CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE?!!?!
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Anonymous2008-04-28 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.
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Anonymous2008-04-29 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.
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.
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Anonymous2008-04-29 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.
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Anonymous2008-04-29 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.
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takkaa2008-04-30 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.
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.
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.
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Anonymous2008-05-16 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