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Is Korean or Chinese better to learn?
Relatively, Korean would be an easier language to learn. Thanks to its phonetic alphabet and more simplistic grammar rules, Korean is not the most challenging Asian language to learn. Chinese on the other hand is much more widely spoken. This means that finding study materials and practice partners would be easier.
What is easier Chinese or German?
Chinese just has a different writing system, its grammar is infinitely easier than German. For an IE speaker used to conjugations , genders and such the simplicity of Chinese grammar may end up resulting difficult. They surely are more comfortable with German.
Is Korean easier to learn than German?
The U.S. Government has done studies that show that Korean is one of the hardest languages for a native English speaker to learn. In some cases, just as hard, if not harder, than Chinese. Further, the USG categorizes languages by their difficulty and Korean is in a “harder” category than German.
Is Chinese easier to learn if you know Korean?
No, it will not be easier,for there is no connection between them. I think it’s more of the opposite. Chinese is much harder than korean as each individual character is different. There are many korean words which sounds like chinese words or even chinese dialects.
What is harder to learn Chinese or Korean?
Chinese appears more difficult to pronounce correctly than Korean, because of its tonal system. Korean has no tones, but makes hard-to-hear distinctions between regular, stressed and aspirated consonants. Korean also has a rythm which is very hard to catch.
Which language is easiest to learn?
Spanish is one of the easiest foreign languages to learn. Much of its vocabulary is similar to English, and written Spanish is almost completely phonetic. It is closely similar to Italian, and therefore is also easy because its grammar and pronunciation are relatively easy, also ubiquitous, everywhere.
Can a Korean and a Chinese understand each other?
No, they can’t. Korean and Chinese can’t understand each other. They have a distinctive language family, Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan (also known as Trans-Himalayan family) while Korean is a Koreanic language (consisting of the modern Korean language collectively with extinct primeval relatives).
What languages are spoken in Korea?
Korean, also called Hangul (한국말), is the official language of both North and South Korea. The Hanguk dialect is spoken is South Korea.