Is it true that the korean language is one of the most difficult languages to learn?

Question

I just heard about it from one of my sensei's and I just wanted to know what people on answers would say.

Answer 1

It depends on your native tongue. If you're Japanese particularly, you'll find it easy and Chinese would find it fair.

But generally, it is considered one of the more difficult languages for native English speakers to learn.

I would think Korean diphthong is generally considered difficult for them. Korean grammar is pretty hard to explain because there are particles that just cannot be translated, and there are lots of sentence finals that give different politeness and mood. And having opposite grammar order from English doesn't help either (SOV)

But the writing saves the trouble a lot because it was originally created for the purpose of having a writing system that anyone could write. Nonetheless, it is not the easiest language to learn.

I honestly haven't seen too many people who speak fluent Korean as an adult learner and even with their fluency, I hear accents all the time. But I'm sure it's because most people are not interested in Korean language and culture enough.

Answer 2

There's particularly no 'toughest' language on this planet. Everyone comes from distinctive components of the sector and their mothertongue will have similarities with a language that's regarded 'intricate' to many different men and women, while of their enjoy, it is so much less difficult. Basically, my factor is - in case your languages are equivalent (akin to Portuguese and Spanish) one of the vocabulary, grammar and different facets could be extra acquainted to you. That could expectantly alleviate a few of its problems. Doesn't imply they are not able to recollect the language as intricate although. I'm multilingual (English-born Asian) and Cantonese is my moment language. I uncover it MUCH less difficult to gain knowledge of languages that are toward mine (akin to Japanese, Mandarin and Korean) inspite of the distinctive writing strategies. However, I uncover French particularly intricate. What I'm looking to get throughout is that everybody's standpoint varies, relying on wherein you have been raised and what language you have been taught from while you have been at a more youthful age. Generally speakme, for an English speaker without a enjoy of every other language, I'd accept as true with your record. In my opinion, Cantonese could be regarded reasonably extra intricate than Mandarin. Cantonese has extra tones than Mandarin most likely. In addition, their language is mainly created from "colloquial speech". Meaning that the way in which they talk (and feature conversations) don't fit with the way in which they WRITE. Sorry if that sounds complicated, it is fairly intricate to give an explanation for. I'd say Arabic, Finnish, Cantonese, Hungarian and Basque.

Answer 3

Yes. I am a native English speaker and learned Korean for two years while I lived there. It is tough. I have heard that for English speakers, Korean is the second most difficult language to learn after Finnish.

Answer 4

lol. sensei? is he japanese??
he probably said it, because korean language is different from both japanese and chinese.
(you know japanese share many kanji with chinese, so it may seem easy to him, since he knows the meaning and all)

However, for me (as korean), i think chinese is the hardest language to lean. The structure itself might be very similar to english, but the pronounciation -- it's sooooo hard.
i try to copy my chinese friend, but she always tells me that i have an accent.

japanese is easy. maybe because i took it three years. (well at least the pronounciation part is no problem for me. i actually went to japan as an exchange student & people told me i had an excelent pronounciation)

Answer 5

It really depends on how different or distant your native language(or comprehensible languages) is relative to the language you are trying to learn.

Bulgarian - Swahili
Cherokee - Persian
Japanese - Irish

If you are a native english speaker have you ever tried Arabic or Russian(especially pronunciation)

Also, it depends on the individual grasping capacity.

Give it a shot.

Answer 6

im learning chinese which is simmilar and its pretty hard to learn if ur learning the symbols but if ur learning with letters its not as hard.

Answer 7

i dont know. i have heard that english os one of the hardest to learn

Answer 8

not so..........

many words.....

is considered as one of the hardest....

probably because of big amout of vocabulary and grammar.....

Answer 9

Not if you are born in Korea!