Japanese people and Korean people say their languages sound same, why if i don't think so?

Question

I've studied languages and i'm good at making distinctions ini accents and pronunciation.

Well i've studied and spoken Japanese enough to know how it sounds in various of its dialects.

Then recently i said i wanna learn korean...and started listening to some korean people speaking korean in some website for learning korean or even some tV recorded korean shows that i have.

And what i think is "It DOESN"T SOUND AT ALL LIKE JApanese"...In fact, if you want to go there..i would rather equate some african languages i've heard to Japanese...but not japanese to korean.

Spanish is more similar to Japanese in sounds.

Answer 1

I live in Japan, I speak Japanese but I don't speak Korean. I have lots of Japanese and Korean friends and I've never heard any of them ever said that their languages are sound same. I mingle so much with them, and of course I don't think so too.
What I have heard is that these two languages have similar pattern in grammar, certainly not in their accents/pronunciation. The thing that I see is that Korean students are learning Japanese so quickly although they were starting together from zero with the other international students in the class.

Answer 2

I might believe the opposite answerer who stated "Whoever advised you this must be shot more than one occasions within the head." No they aren't the equal. The languages are completely one-of-a-kind. The writings also are one-of-a-kind and so are the meals. Of path there are a few similarities however this does not imply that they're the equal. Don't be so ignorant. In this example, when you consider that Korean, Chinese and Japanese are the equal, the Americans, Canadians, Britons and Australians are the entire equal then.

Answer 3

Well, I am fluent in Korean and i'm currently learning Japanese, and i think that they're not the SAME but they're pretty similar. Its probaly because the korean and japanese language have a lot of words from chinese characters like bag promise etc

Answer 4

I agree, Spanish is much more similar to Japanese phonetically. The only way Korean and Japanese is much similar is that the hiragana characters are basically the same idea as the hangul characters- they are phonetic, like ga, na. da are the first three letters of the Korean alphabet, not a, b, c.

Answer 5

I think that they may say this because of the way their grammars are structured. For example in Japanese the ending of polite sentences use some form of desu or de aru which is the verb to be. This is, as far as I can tell, similar to the Korean form of sumni da which also occurs at the end of polite sentences.

Answer 6

japanese and korean are very distinct from one another. i have never mixed up the two. it seems strange that someone would say they sound the same. i have many korean friends and they never say this. neither do my japanese friends.

Answer 7

yep

Answer 8

This is because you do not know either of them.