What is hard and easy about learning Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Dutch...?

Question

I know this seems kind of random, putting all these languages together, but i just wanted to get someone's attention who spoke them so they could tell me about theirs. You don't have to answer and tell me about all of them, just whatever you know. What i am asking is what makes each language hard to learn? What makes it easy? What makes it unique? (For example: Spanish is easy because of you can drop subject pronouns but hard because of its subjunctive mood). I really love languages and want to learn about them all! Please help if you can! Thanks!

Answer 1

Okay, I'm a native speaker of Korean and Korean DOES have punctuation... Don't listen to the other guy... He's full of krap!!!

Korean does use question marks, exclamation marks, periods, commas, etc.

We do use punctuation...

The hardest thing about Korean is that it uses formal and familar forms of verbs (although we don't have conjugations like most European languages...) and I think it's very difficult to pronounce for Westerners... (not much the vowels but the consonants are hell)

Answer 2

Hi, I'm Chinese from Malaysia.
Well, Chinese language is quite complicated, especially learning how to write. Well, i suggest that you can learn how to speak before you learn how to write them. As the pronunciation can be a headache but once you can pronounce it correctly, it will be an advantage for you to progress further.

As you know, Chinese has four different tone. A same word sometimes has more than one tone, and it links to different meaning too. Besides that, many words share the same tone too! So, you can see that this is the difficult part to differentiate them.

Hope this would help you.
Enjoy learning the languages!

Answer 3

I can only speak for Japanese. Hardest is writing it. Getting the correct stroke order down so it looks like you aren't writing it like a 5 y/o is tough.

Another thing is "gairaigo" (borrowed words from foreign langauges) you can often read but don't know what the hell they mean. A simple ex. is "morning service" which means breakfast service at a restuarant not at a sermon at a church.

It's fairly easy to learn the basics as the verbs are simple. You don't need to conjugate them depending on the pronoun. It's the same with all pronouns.

Answer 4

I only speak Chinese....... Speaking and writing are both hard once you begin........ But after a while speaking is easy but writing is still hard. But the order of the words are sometimes confusing . for example: Where are you going?
You Go Where?

Answer 5

i can speak some japanese, it has taken me about 1 year. the language is just different. if u look at it in a japanese persons eyes english is very hard for them. once you get used to it and get the hang of it im sure it will get easier. ( i know japanese has gotten eaiser for me) i hope i helped!!

Answer 6

I took one class in Mandarin Chinese. The hard part is that there are four tones. You can say a word in four different tones to convey four different meanings. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish which tone is being used.

Answer 7

I only know about the Dutch language. Their grammar is the opposite. Example: We say., "I'm going to the store." When they say, "To the store I go."

Answer 8

Korean has no punctuation for a statement or a question. If the sentence ends in KA it is a question, of in DA or TA it is a statement. Also Korean (hagul) has an alphabet, vowels, consonants, and dipthongs.