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Tricky
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DV8
United States1623 Posts
On January 29 2004 21:08 AK-Nemesis wrote: my asia studies prof told me that one can learn hangul in 2 hours...can read no problem, except wont be able to understand what it means. He's right hangeul is really easy to learn in like 2 to 4 hours since hangeul uses sounds rather than chinese that use characters and japanese that use syllables. | ||
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Tricky
China752 Posts
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Tricky
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Klogon
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toptalent
United States1825 Posts
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AK-Nemesis
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my asia prof also said that korean and chinese are essentially different, they look alike because korean has some borrowed vocabs from chinese, but the pronounciation and everything else is different. | ||
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BinGBonG[gamei]
Netherlands514 Posts
On January 29 2004 04:53 -_-Zzz wrote: HI~ im a korean female... about korean languages..! <The Korea Language: Hangeul> Hangeul was invented in 1443, during the reign of King Sejong. It is composed of 10 vowels and 14 consonants. Hangeul has 11 compound vowels, 5 glottal sounds. The chart below represents the 24 Hangeul letters and their romanized equivalents. 'The Hunminjeongeum,' a historical document which provides instructions to educate people using Hangeul, is registered with UNESCO. UNESCO awards a 'King Sejong Literacy Prize,' every year in memory of the inventor of Hangeul. (http://english.tour2korea.com/coming/about/language.asp) (my opinion:do u think..korean language is difficult?? nono~~korean language is easer than chinese language~ really..!hehehe  Psorry~ my english is not so good=_=;;  B Y E---* man na seo bang ga war yo!~~~~ ^_^ | ||
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no1important
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Mynock
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On the other hand, it all depends on your native language when you're trying to learn a foreign one, so what for some ppl might seem difficult, will be easy for others, *because* of those language differences. For example I find German and Japanese (never mind the 2 morae-alphabets + kanji characters writing system) rather easy to understand and learn, whereas Hungarian and Chinese I find to be hard ones. English is rather easy because you bump into it on every other corner. I'd also call Russian a rather easy one, but it's similar to English in the way it's built (IMHO), meaning that it has the same "power" and can also be pretty "gentle". -Mynock | ||
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Klogon
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-zX-Ravage-
United States187 Posts
-_-Zzz is just assem in disguise | ||
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Mydnyte
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I guess you're right. :O | ||
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Konni
Germany3044 Posts
On January 29 2004 21:18 Tricky wrote: O yea just in-case if some1 really wants to know the difference, i have to tell your go get fucked its fuckin completely DIFFERENT, we dont even use that same charcters, its not like the difference bewteen english and those european countries' language english is one of those eruopean countries' languages but i understand what you're saying, that's what i thought too "you can learn hangul in 2-4 hours" hahahahahaaa | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33723 Posts
On January 29 2004 20:56 Chibi[OWNS] wrote: I don't have the right book here, but I'll try to remember: In Japanese, everything is contextual. Therefore, you don't need to specify tenses, subjects or objects. 'I saw the man', could be spoken as simply as 'I saw', which would be 'mita'. Adjectives [IIRC, it's been a while..] are difficult because they are based on a person's status; so you have to learn 4 different variations for some adjectives. However, I think written Japanese is very difficult, and not something I'm going to touch with a very long barge pole :/ Oh yah, I meant the japanese alphabet And I heard theres a lot of dialects as well :O | ||
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Mynock
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ky[Z]
China1730 Posts
 Reading a japanese tv instruction can be quite easy ~ yes, i think chinese is the hardest to learn as well, especially cantonese. there are so many these "phases" or "slang words" in cantonese. btw- i think english is the easiest to learn. | ||
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FroZZoR
China925 Posts
Chinese has got to be one of the easiest to learn, if you are just talking about speaking... the grammar is simple, and you just add words together to form bigger ones... But if you're talking about reading + writing too, then cantonese would definitely be the hardest. | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33723 Posts
On January 30 2004 05:50 Mynock wrote: There is no "Japanese alphabet" -__-;; -Mynock OK so what do they use/ is it called? :O | ||
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Mynock
4492 Posts
On January 30 2004 05:59 FroZZoR wrote: I think the hardest language is probably the African one where they click their tongues. Chinese has got to be one of the easiest to learn, if you are just talking about speaking... the grammar is simple, and you just add words together to form bigger ones... But if you're talking about reading + writing too, then cantonese would definitely be the hardest. Just because the bushman language requires u to sometimes click with your tounge it doesn't necessarily make it hard to learn those couple hundred words, now does it? -.- -Mynock | ||
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