Which language is harder to learn? Mandarin or Korean,?

Question

I know it depends on the person, but what do most people say about this topic? thanks!

Answer 1

MANDARIN

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Korean is harder.

The Korean alphabet does have less than 50 characters, but an average Korean has to be able to read about 1500 chinese characters (hanja, in Korean), to be able to read a newspaper. Despite this, it is still a harder langauge to learn. The nuances in the vowels and dipthongs are insane. My mom tells me it's even hard for her to tell the difference and she has just memorized most of them from experience.

There are also so many different ways to conjugate your verbs (repectful friendship, friends polite/informal, formal/polite, inpolite/informal, royalty, strangers, etc...). I think these total up to about 500? I'm not sure, I read this fact once somewhere.

Korean also has a different sentence structure from English, which seems to be your native language. The same goes for Japanese. Mandarin, and most other CHinese "dialects" have a sentence structure similar to that of English.

But at the end of the day, it's just a matter of opinion.

Answer 4

Mandarin is definitely harder. It is the only language in the world where there are approximately 5000 different characters. Both Japanese and Korean have less than 50!

Answer 5

learning a new language is the same. i learned chinese (cantonese, as in spoke in hong kong) and chinese (fukanese, as spoken in some other part in china) i say canotnese is easier than mandarin. but i do know some words in mandarin. but ive watched korean dramas and i think so far korean is harder to speak/learn (mostly) :) just keep learning and ull think that it wont be hard. im learning spanish and its pretty easy, well only cuz im still young X) just keep trying. wen i was little i spoke and listened better than my own mom in fukanese. haha i surpassed my mom when i was little XD

Answer 6

Mandarin is. I'm learning both of them now, plus japanese. korean has alphabet, MAndarin doesn't. u have to memorize every single word and the pronounciation is soooo hard to differ for me... the problem for korean is that they speak to fast

Answer 7

If you determined in understanding to speak Chinese then you should now that the greatest selection is a Course for Mandarin.

Answer 8

i've heard korean is harder.

reading in korean is actually quite easy. they use an alphabet similar to other languages where each symbol represents a sound. reading in mandarin, to me, seems like a nearly impossible feat.

but, as far as speaking, i've heard korean is more difficult.

Answer 9

ofcourse korean , it's very hard language then arabic the second one...but i speak Arabic...

Answer 10

korean