How would you rate each on a scale of 1-10 in terms of difficulty in learning???
2006-10-09 23:58:16 · 7 answers · asked by I Want Yew To <3 Me. 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
For starters, they are totally unrelated languages. Japanese and Korean are agglutinating languages, which means that they mark grammatical distinctions with suffixes on the words. Chinese is an isolating language, which means that there are no suffixes, but all the grammatical distinctions are marked with word order. Chinese is a tone language; Japanese and Korean are not tone languages. The sound system of Japanese is the simplest, the sound system of Chinese is the hardest. Korean has the easiest writing system, Chinese has the hardest. So if you want to learn to speak, Japanese is probably the easiest. If you want to learn to read, speak and write, Korean is the easiest.
2006-10-10 05:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All three languagues use a written system of kanji (Chinese ideograms). Korean also uses a phonetic system called Hangul, while Japanese also uses hiragana and katakana.
As a spoken language, Korean is fairly distinct from the other two. Chinese is a tonal language, with 4 pitches for each sound. Japanese uses a mixture of old Japanese words and imported Chinese words for each kanji, depending on its use and place in a sentence. There are over 30000 kanji in use, although you only need about 2000 to be considered literate.
As for rating them, I would put Korean at 5, as it is a monotonic direct language, Japanese at 8 as you need to learn several words for each character, and Chinese at 9 as the tones are very difficult to tell apart unless you have grown up with it. Also Chinese does not have a phonetic alphabet, so you have no way to build up a new word that you haven't seen before.
2006-10-10 04:58:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The characters used in these 3 languages are different.
Personally, i would say that picking up chinese, before learning korean or japanese, would make the learning process easier.
This is because some of the words in the Korean/ Japanese language sound very similar to the chinese words with the same meaning.
I would rate them around 5 - it really depends on your interest.
If you're not interested in learning them, it'd not be easy.
2006-10-10 03:25:04 · answer #3 · answered by chemistry_freako 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-02 03:48:09 · answer #4 · answered by marceau 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the main difference is that they are totally different
they are all impossible to learn unless you learn them from birth
2006-10-10 00:05:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i would like to know the same thing! i never really understood the differences
2006-10-10 00:05:57 · answer #6 · answered by Mimi 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the difference is china, japan, and korea
2006-10-10 02:59:50 · answer #7 · answered by yayaloyaya 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋