EPTThanks again for your help guys. As I still have some time before uni starts, I am going to take up a beginners course for Japanese. What learning material would you suggest for a beginner? And I would still love to hear your opinions concerning both languages, so just go ahead.
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Quint
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Thanks again for your help guys. As I still have some time before uni starts, I am going to take up a beginners course for Japanese. What learning material would you suggest for a beginner? And I would still love to hear your opinions concerning both languages, so just go ahead. | ||
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MoltkeWarding
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On April 21 2009 23:10 RaiZ wrote: Learn both. Problem solved. Korean isn't really hard to learn. You can learn it relatively fast if you have the motivation. And then japanese. MUCH more difficult. You really need to focus, not saying like oh hell with this lesson i'll just go there and then i'll learn it fast, which you won't. At least not as fast as you'd if you put some effort into it. Eh? From my experience all languages are hard to learn, and require discipline and time. I doubt it's any different for Korean, if you want to master it and not merely fiddle around with it. For the effort/payoff evaluation, I could see better investments than either Japanese or Korean, and would leave the final decision to the whims of personal idiosyncrasy. For finding work in Germany, I would think that European languages would be in greater demand given the inexorable progress of the EU. | ||
Hot_Bid
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emucxg
Finland4559 Posts
On April 22 2009 06:06 Rekrul wrote: korean is useless unless u wanna pick up girls lol | ||
LosingID8
CA10828 Posts
On April 23 2009 04:09 Hot_Bid wrote: I would learn Japanese, I hear they have a lower instance of rape among teenagers. lol | ||
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OhThatDang
United States4685 Posts
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AzureEye
United States1360 Posts
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GTR
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On April 23 2009 04:09 Hot_Bid wrote: I would learn Japanese, I hear they have a lower instance of rape among teenagers. i see what you did there | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
The big difference comes in writing...Japanese is a LOT harder to learn than Korean. It's not phonetic and uses a weird mixture of like three different alphabets. Korean is one of the simplest and most efficient phonetic alphabets out there, I think, and is fairly easy to pick up. I think Japanese might be more competitive since their economy/exports, quite frankly, matter more in the world scene. | ||
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SpiritoftheTunA
United States20903 Posts
On April 23 2009 16:21 PH wrote: There are actually a lot of similarities between Korean and Japanese...a lot of very similar words with very similar meanings, and their grammatical structure is similar (at least it seems to be to me...don't take my word for it). The big difference comes in writing...Japanese is a LOT harder to learn than Korean. It's not phonetic and uses a weird mixture of like three different alphabets. Korean is one of the simplest and most efficient phonetic alphabets out there, I think, and is fairly easy to pick up. I think Japanese might be more competitive since their economy/exports, quite frankly, matter more in the world scene. two of the japanese alphabets are phonetic, and the third (kanji) is based on chinese characters, are ideographic. korean uses chinese characters ideographically too, iirc. | ||
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Cambium
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OhThatDang
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latent
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DreaM)XeRO
Korea (South)4667 Posts
On April 23 2009 17:14 Cambium wrote: Kanji is extremely rare in Korean language, except for maybe arts/historical venues. I don't think I saw any kanji during my stay in SK. ... >.<;; kanji is only prevalent in japanese culture the use of chinese characters is called hanjja | ||
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