Korean vs Japanese vs Chinese: which is the hardest?
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00:00 Intro
01:00 Historical interactions
05:13 Similarities
06:56 Pronunciation
09:31 Reading
11:12 Writing
14:18 Grammar
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忍者の起源は韓国なんですか?〔rain〕が供述しています。
As a speaker of all of these languages I think Japanese is the hardest of them all. Korean has the simplest alphabet, Chinese characters are the hardest but the Japanese use them too. Pronunciationwise Japanese is the easiest though and the hardest is Chinese with its tones. Grammarwise Chinese is the easiest and Korean and Japanese are the same. If you know Japanese Chinese and Korean is easier to learn but especially Japanese and Korean are close sharing both grammar and vocabulary. Korean has the easiest writing system that you can learn in about 10 minutes btw.
10 minutes is damn impressive imo
@@xydez The easiest handwriting ever in my opinion.
@@xydez 2 hours is a more realistic goal for somebody who has talent for language.
@@JK-nh6jpthe degree of tone learning difficulty really depends on people’s first languages. Like people who speak Vietnamese fluently can master tones in Mandarin Chinese much easier than English speaking people.
@@JK-nh6jp also no offense because I don’t know how well you speak Mandarin Chinese, Chinese people will tend to say something good to Mandarin learners even if they actually don’t speak Mandarin well. But if you can really speak it well, just ignore this comments ;)
Every language has difficult and easy parts. I am learning Korean now and as a native Turkish speaker, our grammar is very similar.
Exactly. Me too :)
There is a channel only for turkish /Japanese similarities. Check it out it's quite interesting.
I am learning Korean and it is so hard to learn for me
Hnggg Türkler...
@@deutschmitpurple2918 Which part is harder for you? I am Italian native speaker and I am struggleing with pronunciation.
I am one of those people who deeply love the three languages, thank you so much. I have some knowledge of aquired Korean language and I am making regular effort to understand more Korean. I have also started learning a few Chinese words. For the moment I dare not try learning Japanese, yet I believe I am going to aquire from my favorite Japanese movies. I don't actually dare to think of knowing the languages to the extent I would like to, because I know each and every of my three favourite languages have great depths, carry a lot of wisdom and knowledge and have their distinct personalityes. Each of my three favourite languages can be a passion for life long learning in itself.
한국어가 과학적이라서 공부하기 쉽다
This is an elaborate and methodical video, I like, well done!
As a Japanese, I didn't have much trouble learning Korean, and within three months, I was able to pick it up reasonably well. However, Chinese uses the same Chinese characters, so the meaning is somewhat understandable, but the problem with Chinese is the pronunciation. Pronunciation is too difficult, and maybe it is just me, but Chinese pronunciation and vocalization are a bit embarrassing and difficult for a Japanese person like me.
Because the Mandarin used by the Chinese government is the pronunciation of some ethnic minorities in the north, the Japanese pronunciation is close to ancient Chinese (Wu and Tang pronunciations), if you try to learn the dialect pronunciation of Wu area (Shanghai, Zhejiang, south of Jiangsu), you will find it very easy.
is it the tones ? i assume japanese isnt a tonal language ?
中国語の中でも北京語、いわゆる標準語とされている言語の発音は最も難しいです。そして、伝わりにくいと実感します。それは、繋げる文字の配列によって声調が変わるものがあるからです。特に代表的なのは「好」ですが、頻繁に使う言語なので、これはすぐに慣れると思われます。南の方にいくと四声が濁ってくるので伝わりやすく、伝えやすくなります。また、広東語圏は全く聞き取れません。その場合は標準語で話してもらうと、すごく伝わりやすくなります。なぜなら、広東語を話す話者にとって標準語を話すことは、日本人と同じくらい四声の使い回しが苦手だからです。
日本人还没向慰安妇道歉！
@@TodThadnot minories indeed
As a Turkish, I can say that Korean has almost the same grammar as Turkish. Learning Chinese makes me feel good because it shows how much I can push my limits. Chinese is a very interesting language and I hope I can learn it and talk to you soon. I continue to learn Chinese , Please continue to keep us informed.❤我们爱中国.대한민국 만세. 日本が大好きです
Great.i relax and have entertaining. while learning hanzi in Chinese. everyone says hanzi are hard, yes it's hard, but it's entertaining.
That's right! The difficulty of something doesn't mean we have to give up on it. I am having a lot of fun while learning hanzi.🎉
Good keep going 💪
@@yanyan_taiwanchina yepp🤞💫
@@Bulamadimneolsa Kanji -> Japanese
The Chinese characters are HANZI
Each video you produce I learn something . And entertaining.
You are born teacher , now professor. Because you profess new ideas.
Your avid fan from California.
Thank you for your videos. I find them very useful.
Chinese is hard at the beginning, but when you know about 1000 characters,then magic happens,everything is connected and becomes very logical. Easier and easier,also more interesting.
Same cannot be said for Japanese. Been speaking japanese over 15 years now. Still confused by the unpredictable pronunciation of characters.
@@JK-nh6jp fr. at least i know what it means though. pronunciation becomes a 50/50 lol.
@@imdva 50/50 on a good day lol
@@JK-nh6jp yeah, japanese kanji can be unpredictavle sometimes
It’s still hard if you are in schools and stuff. Writing essays, having to memorize over 500 words, characters, etc. knowing the write pinyin, doing comprehensions and more. Sure understanding and speaking is easy but doing these isnt
Thank you so much for making this video. This question has been on my mind for the longest time lol.
Due to the education system, English is my first language and Chinese my second language. I am studying Japanese now and at times I question myself if I should have studied Korean instead. Let me gain fluency in Japanese first and then I will tackle Korean next 😄
Keep up the good work, Zoe. It offers a different perspective compared with others. Not saying that others aren't good but the contents are different so there is always something new to glean from.
From Singapore ❤
新加坡人生活中，在什么情况下才会使用中文呢？
Even if you chose Korean instead it’d still be just as hard if not harder. The pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary count, and honorifics outweigh the kanji difficulties for me. And the kanji isn’t even as hard as some people make it out to be.
@@imshulei with friends and family. English is our working language. Not every Chinese can speak Chinese so it really depends on the situation. Hope this helps you.
PS, my phone unable to type Chinese. Sorry
same. i wonder if ill even have the patience to learn korean later lol. 頑 張 って ^.^
日本語勉強頑張ってください！日本語と韓国語は文法が似ているので、日本語は韓国語の勉強にも役立つと思います
I love your video, it is very informative and I am a native Spanish speaker who wants to learn Japanese and I think that learning a language takes a long time and your video was a good introduction to learning the Japanese language.
I am native Japanese speaker
I think Japanese is so difficult
Good luck！
(Even I,a native Japanese speaker,sometimes have trouble speaking Japanese)
Thank you for your video, it's very informative and interesting
i am absolutely thrilled that the CZcams algorithm recommended this incredible comparison video of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese language difficulties on my homepage.
The sheer depth of information and insightful analysis presented in this video exceeded my expectations, and it has instantly reignited my passion for resuming my Korean studies. Thanks Zoe! Subbed ^^
R you stationed in ROK?
Love ur videos, the editing, mic quality is improving so so so much I am so surprised at your rapide improvement! 🩷 it feels like watching a documentary, 很有专业！
yes, I also notice that, the way he edited her video, the mic, and adding some memes, the background...I thought she has new editor, but she mentioned in her old video that she edited herself...
すごい聞き取りやすい英語でわかりやすい解説だった。中国語を勉強してるけど正直挫折しそうだったけどこれを見て頑張ろうと思った。ありがとうございます
加油
頑張ってください╰(*´︶`*)╯
加油哦。我也在学日语，但我实在不懂为什么日本语有片假名和平假名两种写法
@@chenzsどうしてでしょうね…笑 成り立ちには様々な歴史的背景がありますが、現在では外国の言葉（ex アップル）や外国人が話す日本語（exニホンゴワカリマセン〜）を片仮名表記にすることが多いですね。片仮名は基本的に名詞に使われるので、文章中に片仮名が出てきたら名詞だと分かりやすい利点があります。
加油
I'm so surprised to see how informative this video is as a person who studies linguistics😮😮😮
그런데 이 영상은 중국인의 입장에서 한국어 일본어 중국어를 비교 평가한것입니다. 위 3국의 언어를 쓰지 않는 다른 언어를 사용하시는 분의 생각이 궁금합니다.
I enjoyed a lot watching this video. I’ve just started to learn Japanese and this video has got a lot of essential information explaining some things. I knew Japanese is hard language but I was wondering which of these 3 languages is the most difficult. Now I have answer 😅
I’m in love with the narrator of this video. I’m not native English speaker but I understood almost everything. It was really interesting video, thanks for your efforts!
I am Japanese! Don't push yourself too hard, and enjoy learning Japanese whenever you feel like it!
Thank you for your interest in Japanese!
@@user-cl8do7qy7b omg, thank you so much for advise! Im already enjoy learning Japanese despite its kinda hard for me, but it’s much more interesting and exiting in this way! You’re welcome 🤲
この３つの中でどれが難しいか決める事は出来ないですが、日本語は美しい言語です！！
As a native English speaker, I've studied both Korean and Chinese. Korean is easier to get started because of its phonetic script (5/10), but is harder after the first stage becuase of its more complex grammar (8/10). Chinese is very difficult to get started (recognising characters 11/10), and gets easier afterwards, until it is about the same difficulty as Korean (8/10).
I'm japanese american. I speak japanese and korean well, a little bit of chinese.
I disagree. Japanese is 10/10 difficulty because of the complex mix of japanese and chinese words and the complex grammar.
Korean grammar is equally difficult to Japanese grammar or slightly easier. The script is 1000x easier and the pronunciation is about 4x harder for english speakers but korean overall is about 6/10 difficulty.
Chinese is about 5/10 overall difficulty due to straightforward grammar and predictable pronunciation.
@@JK-nh6jp Although I have no experience with chinese and korean, when I tried looking at korean pronunciation, it looked extremely difficult (recognising eo, tt, kk, etc). Maybe no eo but tt, kk ,g all sound very similar to me where as in japanese everything is straightforward (pitch accent is very recognisable and so is the pronunciation of each letter)?
@@dayzovc Honorifics are equally challenging in both languages. If you look deeply, you will find that there are actually many "levels" of honorifics in Korean and Japanese. The nature of the honorifics is a bit different in each language due to cultural differences (confucianism in Korean, vs. "family unit-/inner unit humility in Japanese). Japanese tend to be very humble when speaking about their own children or even their own ancestors. Koreans less so (they will say "my children are beautiful and my father is honorable" without any second thought).
No offense, but the "conjugation" of eun or neun or "i" or "ga" (sorry i don't have korean turned on this keyboard) are very entry level. You can get used to these within 2-3 months of practice and the rules are very predictable. It's not a major barrier to learning the language and not considered complex grammar. It's like whether to use "a" or "an" in English, sometimes non-native speakers struggle with this but it's not grammatical structure.
I'm speaking from a more intermediate-advanced level. I became pretty much fluent in Korean after 1 year of practice, native speakers assumed I was raised as a Korean American based on my accent, fully immersed while working in the country. I spent much more time studying and speaking Japanese, and came from a Japanese speaking family, and still never had as much grasp of Japanese. This is because of inherent difficulties in the grammar and writing system.
Ask a Japanese who has been out of Japan for 5 years how much their Japanese deteriorates, compare it to a Korean who works abroad 5 years, I guarantee the Japanese has forgotten much of his Japanese literary knowledge even if I went to Todai (I have such friends).
But I don't want to speak in absolutes. I respect your opinion, I just offer my own experience for reference.
@@UncreativUsername I think this confusion would fade away with about 3 months of solid practice, ideally with immersion. Japanese pronunciation is easier, but other parts (grammar and vocab mixing) make it a much harder language.
actually i find that korean grammar only gets more complex at an intermediate level. once you advance beyond that, you start to understand all the separate features that make up all the grammar points, so working out the meaning becomes a bit easier!
similar with vocabulary, i find "complicated" hanja based vocabulary a lot easier and more logical to understand than latin based "complicated" english vocabulary
Good and informative video, thank you!
I‘m your avid fan from Bilibili. It is not easy to access you on CZcams. I am here to follow and root for you! Keep up the good work!
Omg if people actually ask you those questions I feel the need to apologize on their behalf. As someone fluent in English and Korean, and currently learning Japanese there is a world of difference. I'm still wondering how that's not common knowledge by now ;-; But I might also live in a bubble. Additionally, learning Kanji/Hanja has been a wonderfully challenging experience and definitely makes me appreciate King Sejeong's alphabet all the more. I had it easy learning how to read Korean, and thankfully Korean grammatical structure has helped enormously with learning Japanese even if there's an ongoing debate to their relation/origin.
King Sejong, who created Hangeul, made it easy for the common people to learn to write. So, anyone can learn easily. It is a very scientific and creative language.
님처럼 여러군데에 국뽕 댓글 복붙 하는건 한국의 위상을 높이는게 아니라 오히려 떨어뜨리는 부끄러운 짓 입니다..🤦
한국어가 배우기 가장 쉽고 과학적이고 창의적인 언어라는 말은 지극히 우물 안 개구리인 한국인 입장이구요.
외국인 입장에선 전혀 아닙니다.😅
외국인 커뮤니티 좀만 돌아다녀도 한국말 너무 어렵고 이해 안간다고 푸념하는 외국인들 정말 널리고 널렸는데요😅
영어 할줄 아시면 시야를 좀 넓게 보시는걸 추천 드리겠습니다^^
제 3자 입장에서 모든 언어는 다 어렵고 분야별로 장단점과 각각 더 쉬운 부분, 더 어려운 부분들이 있을뿐이지 뭐가 더 전체적으로 더 쉽다, 우월하다는 없습니다.
다 자기 모국어가 제일 쉬워 보이는 법 입니다.
오히려 엄밀히 따지면 영어를 가장 많이 쓰고 배우고 영어로 된 정보나 컨텐츠가 가장 많고 영어 교육 서비스도 가장 많이 하니 영어가 비교적 제일 쉬울 순 있겠네요.
과연 중국인이 님처럼 이런 얘기를 했어도 님은 받아들일 수 있습니까? 게다가 요즘 한국어는 순 한국말은 별로 찾아보기 힘들고 대부분 한자 아니면 외래어 영어죠.
즉 많은 부분을 외국어에 의존하고 있습니다. 또 존댓말과 반말이 극명하게 나뉘어져서 배우기도 힘들거니와 서양처럼 처음 본 사람에게 말 붙이기가 힘들게 되어있고 쓸데없이 싸움의 요인이 되기도 하고 굉장히 권위적인 문화가 자리 잡히는 원인이 되기도 하죠.
또 중국어와 일본어에 비해 한국어로 된 정보와 컨텐츠의 양은 극히 적습니다.
이런 부분도 디메리트죠. 그래서 한국어가 제일 배우기 좋다? 이런건 아닌거 같구요.
그리고 제발 중화사상을 강요하는 중국인처럼 한국의 것이 무조건 더 좋다는 식의 국뽕 댓글은 안 썼음 좋겠습니다.
그것도 여러군데 복붙 하는건 더더욱 하지 말구요. 제발 우리 일부 중국인처럼 얼굴 화끈거리는 짓은 하지 맙시다.
그런식으로 외국인의 입장에서 생각 안하는 국수주의적 태도는 오히려 우물 안 개구리 라는걸 반증 하는 꼴 입니다.
자기가 속한 집단이나 자신의 정체성을 올려치기 해서 자신의 자존감과 인정욕구를 채우는 행동은 바꿔 말하면 자기 자신의 가치를 올려 자존감이나 인정욕구를 채우지 못하기 때문에 그런것입니다.
쉽게 말하면 국뽕으로 자존감과 인정욕구를 채우는 사람들은 자기 자신들은 별 볼일 없으니까 그런 행동을 하는거죠.
그런 한심한 행동 그만하고 본인이 열심히 노력해서 자기 자신의 가치를 올리시길 바라겠습니다.😊
Oh you know korean history. I’m little happy!
It's characters technically... not language...Korean language is difficult even I am Korean.
Hangul is just a writing system. It's not a language. The Korean language existed thousands of years before King Sejong invented Hangul..
@@onlyuduru I don't think it's difficult
I'd really like it if you made a video that dives into how Dungans managed to adopt multiple alphabets, and what we can take from it in the heated debate on whether actually resorting to alphabets would help Mandarin spread while preserving its current functionality.
Chinese is super hard in the beginning but get easier later, Japnese seems the opposite. One thing very interesting is, each character in Chinese are similar to the "root word" in English. The number of commonly used chinese characters are 3000-5000, once you memorize them, you can basically guess the meaning of all the words you meet. Also, the reading speed of chinese reader is suuuper fast since chinese sentence is very informative comparing to other languages
中文阅读快因为字少
@@baiyun7810 真的 ！
没错
Japanese, too
だからゲームのRTAとかに中国語使われてたりするよね
Excellent video! I am studying Chinese for almost 2 years and I am teacher of Japanese, this video is very important because my students always ask the same thing. Thank you Zoe for you videos I love you so much. Greetings from Colombia ❤
Well.. I don't think this video is accurate. Zoe is native Chinese speaker and she can't speak Japanese and Korean at all.
@An I bet you don't speak all three languages. And some of the information is wrong..! She just brought some misconception of Korean or Japanese from the Internet.
@An So you CAN'T speak Korean!! I'm saying that the information about Korean is especially wrong in this video. I can speak Korean and Japanese. How can you be sure that the explanation of Korean is correct in this video even though you can't speak Korean??
@An lol. Great. 😆
Korean is easy to get to simple communication level. You can learn reading/writing in couple hours and learn just enough for traveling in couple days. People complain that it gets harder when you get to literature level but what language isn't? Shakespeare isn't easy. If you're traveling to Korea, I recommend learning Hangul. You can do that in the plane and will make your stay much more pleasant.
Well i do not agree your comment It's sure that Hangul is very easy maybe easiest but korean is never easy as you think there are more than 15 ways to express one thing and you can't memorize it and you have to learn it only from experience so I totally agree that it's easy to get to the small talk level but I can be say it is overwhelmingly difficult as a multilingual speaker to use Korean deeper and understand that sensibility
Thank you for this video 👏🏾🤍🤍
Great video. Very informative. You also look stunning.
I definitely agree that your native language really has more of an impact on difficultly. I am a native English speaker, and my family also speaks Twi which is a Ghanaian language. And I'm trying to learn Mandarin.
Being an English speaker makes the tonal aspect of Mandarin really hard both in speaking sentences correctly and in listening. But funnily enough, my Twi background makes some sounds in Mandarin a bit easy to replicate.
And even more funny is that when I listen to Korean, I pretty much feel that I would have an easy time with it's phonetical sounds because of the sounds being similar to some sounds or mouth shapes in Twi.
Very interesting.
As a Ghanaian who is an intermediate Korean speaker and a Chinese Language beginner, I affirm your assertion.. it was quite easier for me to pick up Korean because of it phonetics and I am struggling with the tones in Chinese.. Practice seems to do the magic
@@_esikAcquah nice to meet you Esi! And yes, I just get that feel about Korean so glad to have you confirm it. I always joke when listening to them that it sounds like a west African language so I call them my people 😂
Tones are killing me in Mandarin. I can say the tones on individual words but can't for full sentences. And I can't distinguish it when listening to full sentences.
As someone who wasn't ever interested in being a polyglot, but knows ( and is familiar to ) 7 languages, id also say that when we say Asia (pointing to east side ofc) we think that the people are able to speak all languages there! but I understood that its wrong, due to the fact that I've been studying korean for a really long time! but then ofc, all and every language has its own complex and easy understanding parts. Thank you for the video zoe
I have studied all three languages and I think I can say I'm pretty fluent in all of them.
Strictly from my own experience, I feel the lack of a grammatical structure or law really makes learning Chinese more difficult than the other languages. Even if I know the same amount of words for each language, it may be more difficult to come up with a sentence in Chinese than in Korean or Japanese since there are words that can only be used as a noun or adjective or verb but in Japanese and Korean the verb 하다 and する allow for a more relaxed grammatical structure.
I don't know I guess I am biased since I am a native Korean speaker who has studied English as one's second language, but it has always felt more challenging to sound more fluent in Chinese than in Japanese, or even other romance languages like Spanish or French
じゃあ日本語でコメントしてみ
@@user-nl5qv7oo8e 最近翻訳のアプリとか凄いのでコメントで何が分かるかは全然知らんけど
@@user-vl4kx6ml9n 日本語おかしいよ笑
@@user-nl5qv7oo8e 外国人だからネイティブレベルの日本語ができるとは別に言ってないけど
@@user-vl4kx6ml9n そんなこと誰も聞いてねーよ笑
Looking very good. Idk about Japanese or Korean but Chinese is tough atm.
As a Korean learner in my own experience that was pretty hard at the beginning but when got into the all basic grammar and already learned the alphabet it started to get easier and easier and listening was pretty important tho never give up when you wanna learn a new language it depends on how much you want to learn it keep going 화이팅 여러분 할수있어요💪🏻💗
화이팅 -> 파이팅
@@jumaro3863 화이팅이라고도 쓰는구만 트집은..
I hope you're enjoying Korean, although sometimes it's tricky even for native speakers... I struggle all the time😅 Glad its getting easier for you. 할 수 잇따 화이팅!
@@IIlIllIlIIIlIllllI 고마워요 💗
@@jumaro3863 구어적으로 화이팅이 자주 쓰이기에 둘다 맞습니다.
Im a Turkish person living in Japan. I can speak Japanese quite well, and I am familiar with Korean and Chinese although I can not speak them.
So, Chinese is very different to Japanese and Korean. And although they vehemently refuse, Japanese and Korean are quite similar grammatically. Also, they are similar to Turkish, because Turkish was born in central asia, and is related to mongolian and Altaic. All the Turkish people I met in Japan, they can learn and speak Japanese very quickly and skillfully (Although reading and writing is another story of course).
For me, Chinese is the most difficult one among these, by quite some margin. The existence of Kana letters in Japanese makes it very easy to apply verb tenses etc. I can not imagine using Kanji for this lol :). Also the number of vowels and pronunciation of Chinese is very difficult compared to Japanese.
Thank you for the great video !
じゃあ、トルコ語は比較的簡単にマスターできるかな？🤔どんな言葉かまったく知らんけど…😅
As for the tense, actually you don't need to worry about this in Chinese. Chinese doesn't have any transformation in terms of tense.
always a turk
I can listen to you all day your voice and body language is pleasant. I learned so much.
It takes a lot of knowledge to create this video. Impressive!
色々な言葉の違いが分かってとても面白い動画でした！
Thank you so much for sharing this video 🌸
As an Azerbaijani, I’m agree with Turkish people in the comments, our grammar are very similar to Korean. It’s way too easier for us to learn Korean.🇰🇷🇹🇷🇦🇿💗
Do many people in Azerbaijan speak Turkish, or a closely related language of Turkish?
Salam
@@user-ek2dl3xl1v Türkçe konuşmuyorlar ama Azerbaycan ve bizim dilimiz çok benzer birbirimizi anlıyoruz ama ufak tefek değişiklikler var tabi ama çok yakın iki dildir Azerbaycan Türkçesi ve Türkiye Türkçesi
@@user-ek2dl3xl1v They speak Azeri or Azerbaijani, which is a Turkic language. It's from the same Turkic branch as Turkish and Turkmen (Turkmenistan), namely the Oghuz branch. There are other Turkic languages such as Uzbek, Kazakh, Crimean Tatar etc.
So they're from the same language family.
@@ewoudalliet1734 I see, thx
As a complete Korean-English bilingual, I had a rather easy time learning both Japanese (similar to Korean word order), and Chinese (similar S-V-O structure to English + known Ancient Chinese text knowledge from culture). To someone learning Chinese, try imitating pronunciation rather than pinyin. To someone learning Japanese, quickly familiarize both hiragana and katagana.
I recommend Chinese language learners refer to Jon Pasden's "Sinosplice" blog to learn how to pronounce pinyin properly. A big issue with learning Chinese is that the vast majority of Chinese teachers don't spend enough time to help their students really understand pinyin, and this quickly becomes a significant barrier for Chinese language learners.
What you said is not comprehensive. Chinese is not phonography, and there are the most homophones in the school. You should learn words immediately after learning Pinyin, or you will become illiterate.
@@user-xn4mj4uf4d comments are usually aimed to make a single point, rather than be broadly covering all aspects. It may not cover all the bases and it may not be aimed for all people with varying degrees of language methods. Hence, it may suit the needs of some people. Broadly dismissing this outright can be considered heavy handed, especially when what you say is, ironically, quite incomprehensible. Also, hiding your ID from 鸠不 易出, just makes your comments less credible and insincere.
As a Chinese I think you are wise
Your advice about Chinese pronunciation sounds great. I'll try doing this instead of relying too much on pinyin to imitate the sound.
As a Japanese, Chinese is the most difficult one. We can understand some meaning of character because of kanji, but pronunciation is so hard.
I wanna understand Korean so much for my friends and my bias, but I think Korean is also difficult than English. As many people say, Japanese and Korean grammar is same and the sound or meaning of some words are similar, however i cant understand hangul still now and this language speed is fast for me. but i love the cute sound so someday i hope i can speak well haha
I'm from Finland and when I started to learn Japanese 2 years ago, the pronunciation was very easy because it sounds similar as Finnish and both languages share same word, but different meaning. But there's also same words which meaning is also same like 🇯🇵や(ya) and 🇫🇮ja means both "and" in Japanese and Finnish. Also 🇯🇵ローハ(roova) means an old lady and 🇫🇮rouva can Also mean The old lady.
😂someone said that Finns’ ancestors were come from north Asia(include north china and Siberia) thousands years ago. Your body heredity may be from maternal line.
You are the special(not Germanic Slav or Celt) ones of Europeans.
日语肯定最容易 因为日语在人类语言里有最少的元音，任何一个外国人学日语发音都不困难，而日本学生学任何一种外语都会被发音困扰，所以日本人外语水平很差，至少在同等收入水平的国家里是最差的
🇨🇳the easiest grammar
🇯🇵the easiest pronounciation
🇰🇷the easiest writing
FI - ja
JP - ya
KR - wa
hahaha, this is really funny, my 2 favourite countries in the world are Finland and Japan (but i have spent more time in Japan). I have always thought that there are many sounds in both languages that are very similar. But I thought it was only me thinking that.
This is well done, as a native japanese, I'm impressed by her research and well summarized historical info.
I'm Mexican and for me Korean is easier to learn than Japanese and Mandarin. I live in Toronto Canada since 1998 and whenever I can, I practice with some of my colleagues at work. I would love to speak Japanese and Mandarin, but for now I'm just studying Korean. I loved your video. Greetings from Canada.
Very good and easy to understand video👍🏻
The production value and editing of your videos is insanely good! Of course the content is as well, but I’ve noticed the production is getting better and better❤
Korean is not studied at all in the language ranking. Korean is popular in Asia, but at a minor level. Japanese and Chinese are major languages and are studied in many countries around the world.
Hi Zoe, i love that you like challenging yoirself and even make researchments about the languages that you dont speak. I'm also a language lover like you as a native turkish speaker. Now i have another challenge for you to make comparison between languages. 1st Nordic languages i know that these languages are being a part of germanic languages but it still felt so different to me when i got into them and especially the world of danish,swedish,norwegian arw totally different even though they are all considered as nordic and seems pretty interestting to me. 2nd is turkic languages. Even though im a native turkish speaker never got time to get into turkic world and whenever i watched a video between these langauges and see how much it might be ssimilat with other languages like kazakh kyrgyz etc it was a whole new world to me. I would love it if you made a video about it so we all learn together new worlds. Then maybe we could also get in the latino world😂 lots of love from Türkiye ❤
Turkic languages are definitely on the schedule 🥰😉
Did you try to learn Finnish language which is totally different from English French etc
@@user-cu9si2jt1z no i still didnt get into that but will definetely will consider it thanks for suggestion
@çimenlerin üstüne uzansam hiç kalkmasam mesajımı görüyor musun
You are great and your job plays an important role
Many pattern of “I ate breakfast”
in Japanese.
1.私は朝食を食べました
⬆️basic
2.朝メシくったよ
⬆️NOT say “I”but correct
3.朝ごはんなら食べたよ、私は
⬆️change order of sentence
4.僕、朝ごはん食ったよ
⬆️Can image boy’s said.
5.朝ごはんならば、いただきました
⬆️include the meaning of application.
5.オデ、アサゴハン、クッタ
⬆️troll
6ワタクシなら、朝食を摂りましたわよ
⬆️Celebrity Girl
7.わたァ串🍡ﾓ、ﾋﾞﾊﾞ朝ｼｮｯｸ⚡️を、御ﾑｼｬブリ🐟喰いﾏｼﾀヮー🗼!!!
⬆️if you are Japanese,can understand it.
I speak only english and am now trying to learn Japanese. This is a lot to take in at once, but I'll keep learning one step at a time. 😊
Although it is very difficult to memorize kanji, I am glad that there are people who are learning Japanese. I wish you the best!
がんばれ！！
Take it slow, I took Japanese class and saw many people who only spoke English suffer but eventually learned the language. Just remeber, you have to put lots of work...
@xgfreedom Thank you for your inspiring words. I almost gave up, but because of you, I'll keep going, and I won't give up. 🫡
As a Japanese adult, I usually can imagine meanings roughly when I read Chinese language.
And when I see Korean language, it becomes more difficult to imagine/understand
meanings as Korean letters look completely different from ours.
But a funny phenomenon is there that when it comes to learn those 2 languages,
we tend to need lesser time to learn Korean than Chinese.
I don't know why, but I assume many Japanese people have experienced that.
My native language is Chinese. I tend to learn Japanese than Korea language
Because Korean and Japanese are similar languages. Their sentence structures are perfectly identical. I heard that Koreans can learn Japanese easily too.
@@lne3066
왜냐힌면 원래 일본어는 언어만
있었고 글자가 없어서 한국의 삼국시대 백제 왕인 이라는 학자가
일본에 건너가 왕의 태자에게 학문을 가르키며 글을 만들어 전파 했다는 증거가 있습니다~~
@@user-iq8tv8xo6x 但是有意思的是 他帶去的應該是中文和儒教 畢竟訓民正音是十五世紀的事不是嗎😂😂
@@user-iq8tv8xo6x 원래 동아시아 나라들 전부 언어만 있고 문자 체계가 없었기에 중국의 한자를 문자로 채용한것입니다. 우리나라도 그런 연유로 한자를 채택하여 사용한것이구요. 그리고 글을 만들다뇨? 왕인이 한 일은 일본에 중국의 천자문을 전파했을뿐입니다.
대단하시네요 ㅎㅎ
자도 한국어 일본어로 동영상만들고
컨텐츠 제작중입니다 ^^
일본어랑 중국어는 기본 한자를 쓰기때문에
어려운거 같아요 😢
I really like this clip and I would like you to compare Thai, Lao and Khmer (Cambodian) because they are similar. Especially Thai and Laotian people can talk to each other without needing an interpreter // Requested by FC-Yosita from Thailand. 😊
Japanese is difficult when it comes to Kanji because of onyomi and kunyomi. As a native Chinese speaker I have to unlearn the Chinese characters that was thought from young to understand. Kanji has different pronunciation and sometimes a new meaning compare to regular Chinese words. But generally we can guess the Kanji words as it have similar meaning.
嗯，學日語的話，就直接不要學漢字的部分會快一點上手，全部都先寫成平假名，最容易，以非中文母語的人來學的話（因為所有漢字都有對應的平假名）
For foreigners who do not belong to China, Korea, or Japan, the easiest language to learn is Korean. It has the simplest structure of alphabets. It can be the fastest for basic communication and acquiring simple travel or cultural knowledge. However, Korean can be challenging to master due to its wide range of expressions and irregularities.
Chinese has a relatively easy grammar based on word order, but the large number of characters to memorize poses a significant barrier. Therefore, despite other aspects being easier, it is considered the most difficult language to learn, especially for non-native speakers who need to read and write. The complexity of Chinese characters and tones makes it particularly challenging. It feels the most difficult among the three languages.
Japanese has a complex part similar to Chinese characters, but Hiragana and Katakana are relatively easy, resembling Korean. It has a feeling of being in between Chinese and Korean.
I disagree. Chinese has incredibly easy grammar and and sentence structure/word order where as korean grammar is complex for an English speaker and the word order as well. Chinese characters aren't hard either.
@@tsoii but in order to learn Chinese you need to at least know 3000 alphabets to have basic conversation So Korean is easier to learn
@@tsoii Ok, which one of the 100+ variance of Chinese is easier? Let's start with Cantonese or Mandarine & then 100+ more to go.
I'm learning Japanese.
@@tsoii Easy for you to say if you already know Chinese characters.. otherwise Korean is the easiest for non East Asians. The grammar is not that difficult to grasp since it pretty much follows the same formula. So once you master the basics, you'll advance much more easily. Compare that with Chinese that has so many symbols to memorize and different types of intonations.
Chinese characters are difficult to write. Japanese and Chinese people share a few common characters so it is easy to access, but for other people, the characters themselves are difficult to write, and it takes a long time to write each character. I mentioned the first hurdle when learning a language that isn't in the video. And this is an explanation of Japanese and Korean from the Chinese perspective. The perspective from Westerners or people from other countries may be different.
After learning English and Japanese,I genuinely feel like Chinese truly easy. Like both these two languages have many grammar rules. And there are so many sentential forms in Japanese to express different levels of courtesy😂 And the kanji in Japanese is way more harder than Hanzi in Chinese for those who don't know these kind of characters. I can't find out any regulations of kanji using even if I can read them.
So I feel like Chinese is that kind of language like,once you know,you know. I guess once you survived from 500 basic Chinese characters,you might find everything start to be easy,bc those complicated ones are just combined by basic ones.(or maybe my feelings is wrong I'm native Chinese speaker and I'm talking nonsense) And I also feel tones is not that hard(maybe?) bc when you speak in real life listeners can infer the meaning through contexts as long as your pronunciation is clear.
As a Korean learner, I just wanna say I really appreciate the amount of effort you put into creating this video and the research on Korean language. Also, I like your Korean accent 😊
She has terrible Korean pronunciation.
We should start a study group and hold each other accountable
Zed is my favorite character in games.😁
@@daizihan-xh3yn mine is Malph 😂
I really like this video but her Korean and Japanese pronunciation is not good.
As a Spanish native speaker the three languages have a high level of difficult 😢😢
But I'm trying to learn basic Mandarin as a hobby... Wish me luck, I try not to give up on it
Wish you luck.
Do you study Mandarin by yourself or with a tutor? I fumbled an idea of starting learning chinese, but realised that I won't have any success without a teacher (can't afford it now). I've been studying Japanese for a year now, by myself, and slowly preparing myself for diving into Korean (for me it has rather hard pronounciation, but thankfully no tones like in chinese and easy writing system).
By the way, Spanish is my another goal.
i passed the level 5 of hsk good luck its a tough language but the grammar is easy
加油
good luck!❤
good luck,i didn't have trouble learning it growing up because Chinese is in my blood
Let's try with Vietnamese, Zoe =]] You might find more fun there!
漢字を知らない外国人が1から日本語学びたいと思った時にどれだけ心が折れるか簡単に想像ができる。それで読み書きできるようになってる人は本当にすごいよ
那母语是汉语的学日文岂不是简单多了😂？
@Kobayashi_tetsuya
確かに！
でも日本にしかない漢字や日本と中国で意味が違う熟語もあるから大変なのは変わらなさそう…
後何より発音が全然違うからね、日本人も中国語学ぶときにそこで苦労してる
@@Kobayashi_tetsuya俺にとって中国語は難しいよ...
@@user-oe5zl4rt1bleaning every language is hard , really ,even if in the same culture
@@Kobayashi_tetsuya
中国人には日本語は無理だよ
自分が日本人だからか日本語が1番簡単なように思えるけど、どの言語を母国語にしているかで難易度は結局人によって変わってくるよね〜
确实 我觉得东亚三国互相学习对方的语言还是很容易的 欧洲语言只有英语最简单😂
名前韓国語なのかよ
韓国語は難しいなぁ、言うまでもない
@@akapochi-cp4zq ヒカマーってさ、何で誰も彼も関係ないところでヒカマニネタ出すの？民度下げてることに気づけよ
母国語が一番簡単だなぁ、そうに決まってる
この動画を作る労力を考えたら感服せざるを得ないなぁ😅
ほんまに言語が好きなんやなって伝わる。
你很强
わかる
As a Vietnamese trying to learn Korean, I sometimes find Korean words which have similar pronunciation and meaning as Vietnamese. Surprisingly, all of these words are originated from Chinese. Learning new language is a long journey yet very fun way to discover other cultures.
Besides, Cantonese and Vietnamese share a great number of similar verbs. I didn't realize this before ,at this point, I genuinely doubt that all Vietnamese formal words are borrowed from Cantonese and sometimes Mandarin
한국인이 듣기에는 베트남과 홍콩어는 매우 비슷하게 들립니다. 아마도 비슷한 단어도 많을거예요
韩语粤语有相似就对了，因为东亚各国受到汉文化影响很大。
Vietnamese, Cantonese and Mandarin all descended from Middle Chinese, which both Korean and Japanese borrowed many loan words from. Middle Chinese to East Asian languages is like Latin to European languages.
@@JS-ih7lu no, Vietnamese did not descend from Middle Chinese. The large amount of similarities is due to the fact that Vietnam had been conquered by Chinese dynasties for more than 1000 years
@@HoaAn__. Learn some history man. Vietnam was created by a Chinese warlord 1000 years ago, the name Vietnam means “south Yue”, where “Yue” is a place in China 😂
Thank you. Thank you very much for this video.😊
Thanks for your explanation.I agree with you about the difficulty depending on the native language spoken. In my experince as Mexican learning English, French, and korean and some knowledge of italian and chinese. Korean has been the hardest one grammatically. It is something completely different.
You learn Chinese you know where the difficulties, after all, there are many Chinese idioms and classical Chinese and ancient poetry
honestly,it depends alot on your first language to distinguish which is the hardest language, for me Japanese is quite complicated but believe it or not,the learning progress is very fascinating
It's so fun lol
When you learn Japanese, you also learn the history of many languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, English and more. In fact, it sometimes does a better job at teaching Chinese history than modern Chinese.
Katakana (made based on a part of kanji) is used for non-Chinese loan words🙂
That's beneficial for me, thank you, moreover more easily American with Chinese learn ways🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂
An extra layer of difficulty for the Japanese honorific system that often gets left out is that it's not just the prefixes and suffixes that can change, the words you use themselves are different. Most verbs in Japanese have multiple synonyms across the spectrum.
The standard word for giving something is "あげる(ageru)", but if the person doing the giving is important, you would say "くださる(kudasaru)". And if you are showing the person you are talking to a different level of respect as the person you are talking about, then you get different permutations. ex: talking to a boss about something a friend gave you -> "誰々があげました(daredarega agemashita)" vs talking to a work-friend about something your boss gave you -> "誰々さんがくださった(daredaresanga kudasatta)". Notice how the first sentence uses the formal mashita(past tense of masu), but the standard word for give, and no "san" when referring to your friend. Where as the second sentence uses the honorary word for give with the informal word end "ta".
Korean does the same + more lol
中文也是的哦，不仅有一字多音（得他拥有三种发音），一音多字（在新华字典上每一个发音都有许多个字如睡，税），一义多词（表示惊讶，哇哦，我去，我艹，牛逼等等），在我们漫长的历史中，还有甲骨文，文言文等许多知名的文字
한국어도 똑같다. 예를 들어 '밥을 먹다'라는 문장이 나이가 든 사람이 주체가 된다면 '진지를 잡수시다' 또는 '진지를 드신다'로 바뀐다.
I spent wonderful years learning Mandarin Chinese, it really was the gateway to an "alien mindset". It was so refreshing switching from german to it and getting rid of the grammar to learn ancient idioms (Chengyu) instead!
Ps: I'm addicted to Zoe's pronunciation in English...
我是一名中国人，想学习德语，但是德语的发音辨识度很低，我无法区分‘i’和‘e’，入门都十分艰难😢
@@junxianli-fy3nbyou just need to keep learning and listening to native germans. Someday you will learn to keep them apart!
日本語しか話せない日本人です。
日本語で最も難しいのは敬語（尊敬語、謙譲語、丁寧語）だと思っています。
完璧に使いこなせる人は凄いと思います。
余計な礼、結局100年後か200年後かは使わなくなると思う
敬語は覚えればいいだけマシ。日本人が難しいと思ってるからそう思うだけじゃないかと思う。
助詞とか、日本人の殆どが説明出来ないことを、外国人は基本文法として学ばなければならないし、日本語には文法も意味も間違っていなくても通じにくいことがあり、「こういう場合こういう言い方はしない」という表現が多過ぎて手に負えない。
As a Chinese, I can guess what you generally mean without translation software.....
It's really interesting.
中国人です、関西弁が好きですが、とてもか可愛くて、面白いです😊
日本語なんてどうでもいい。
Many korean appreciate the great king sejong. Because he contributed to invent our alphabet "han geul". Hangeul is assessed as easy, simple, scientific
This is very interesting. I'm from the U.S but for me Japanese came easier to me than the others. I'm still learning though but I do love this video. It makes me more excited and confident to keep learning these languages with a new perspective in mind 😎
As an Italian who can speak Korean and Japanese fluently, I can't agree with you at all that Korean grammar is easier than Japanese grammar. In Korean, conjunctions and postpositions are more diverse than in Japanese, and particle markers in Korean are more nuanced. Chinese and Japanese are famous for their difficulties in the West, but Korean is not. Many foreigners who have not learned enough Korean tend to think it is easy. I don't think Zoe actually learned enough Korean to make a video about it..
And I just noticed that Zoe didn't learn Korean at all when I saw her romanizing the Korean "시" into "Xi" instead of "Si" in 6:30. "Xi" is only used in Chinese.
She says that she can't speak Korean but still she tried, also she says don't rely on romanization
It's funny because people are literally arguing about it and saying different things
@@zooropa414 I didn't blame her for not speaking Korean. However, some explanations about Korean were wrong in this video. It's because she cannot speak Japanese and Korean. She should have made the video with more care.
And she wrote down the pronunciation of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese through Romanization. She wrote "시간" as Xigan, not Sigan. And it is wrong.
@@emiliofermi9994 Just curious how long did it take to learn both Japanese and Korean fluently? Cause in my experience even learning one Asian language is already a huge undertaking
The difficulty of any language is relative to what you already speak. I already speak fluent Japanese (learned it in college), which means that Korean is waaaaay the hell easier for me to learn at this point due to the grammar and most of the sounds being nearly identical. For someone whose first language is a tonal language, Mandarin is probably easier.
I'm an Indian
And my Native language is Hindi
I am learning Japanese in school
And one time my teacher asked me to show her the alphabet my language uses
And when i showed her a few letters of hindi alphabet
And she said it looked very similar to The Korean writing system because of how the characters were structured
And i could see her point
Because in Korean they use the syllables as combinations for characters
We do this in Hindi as well
We have elements called "Matras"
Which we have to add in vocabulary to make the pronouciation more clearer
This is also the difficult part if your learning hindi
Its not easy to memorize the matras because you would have to translate the way the word is pronounced to add the correct matra
I am learning Korean because I was deceived by the alphabet. As an Italian speaker, I struggle with the subtle differences in pronounciation of many sounds. But too late now. I love it anyway lol
Pronounciation wise, I should have chosen Japanese. For an Italian, the sounds are very easy. But I couldn't get past the 3 writing systems. 😅
Chinese is hard from both points of views, I envy who manages to memorise chinese characters, and can enjoy the allegedly easy grammar as a reward.
Overall, I think they are 3 beautiful languages and cultures ❤
Two common opinions from many foreigners learning Korean:
"Hangul is very easy. If you don't master it in two hours, you're a fool."
“Hangul is an easy character, but Korean is not easy at all. The more you improve, the more difficult it is."
😂😂
You don't have to be bothered by 3 writing systems in Japanese language.
One reason is because they have fewer kanjis and no new characters.
Katakana is used for foreign words like イタリア (Italia). There is kanji for America which is 米国(Beikoku) but mostly
アメリカ (America) is used.
Hiragana are mainly used for conjugating verbs.
Example:
行 iku (go)
It will not be understandable if you just use this without hiragana. By using hiragana you can use this kanji in many tenses
行く iku go
行きます ikimasu (polite form for go)
行きたい ikitai (want to go)
行った itta (went) 行きました ikimashita (polite form)
Hiragana is also used if you forgot the Kanji (*_*)
@@alexandercyrus9927 I understand how they are used, but you must learn all the 3 of them to understand a written text, don't you?
Kanji is not even the same as traditional Chinese, let alone simplified Chinese.
Also I think that furigana (the little hiragana notes next to kanji) is used only in text for children or young people.
So it still feels daunting. However one day when I reach an acceptable level of Korean I want to try again to learn Japanese. Haha
Do you speak Japanese? I admire you!
@@FrancescaMancusoHi there! I'm a Japanese learner. It's pretty easy; I think the way I learned hiragana first was by just getting used to it (seeing it often, rewatching videos, practicing stroke order). same for katakana and kanji Is a bit harder, but I promise you'll find your way. You'll find a bunch of things along the way that confuse you, but when you figure out what they actually are, you'll be like, "Oh, it was that easy?" And yeah, I'm not saying Japanese isn't hard, but it's not as difficult as people say it is. I wish you luck with Korean and the other languages you might pick up.
If you have studied Korean then Japanese must be easy to start studying.
설명이 귀에 쏙쏙 들어와요!! 감사합니다❤
새->쌔들 사람->싸람
"나는 쌔론 ㅇㅇ ㅣ를 씨작해따" 쌘발음이 많이 들리는걸보니 중국분이신가보네요..
애쓰긴 했는데…짧은 시간에 다룰 주제가 아니었던 듯. 그정도로는 상당히 아쉽다는 말.
좀 오지랖이긴 한데 중간에 '너' 설명할떄 'ㅓ'를 'ㅢ'로 잘못 쓰신게 보이긴 해요..ㅎ 외국인 분이시니까 틀릴 수 있다 생각하지만 다음엔 조금 더 조사해주셨음 좋겠어요ㅎ 그래도 열심히 설명해주셔서 고맙습니다!!
역쉬 한국생키들이 해외나가거나 한국에서 발음지적하고 난리들임 정작지는 못하거나 쪼금하면서 ㅈㄹ들임 조선시대마인드가 아직까지있음
pronunciation correction : Baekje is pronounced close to [bek-jeh], that ae is pronounced someting like 'a' in 'back'
only except that, very educative and interesting video!
In this video,all of her korean pronunciation was unnatural😂😂(im korean)
@@Yugyobear 솔직히 말해서 발음이 거슬리긴 했지만 그래도 노력하신 거라고 생각하고 넘겼습니닼ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
한글은 쉬워도 우리말은 음운도 음운변동도 많고 꽤 발음하기 어려운 소리가 많은 것 같아요 ㅎㅎ
I still remember hiragana and katakana from high school classes back in '98. I'm going to attempt business in Japan. I'm hoping the writing knowledge will be enough to accelerate my vocabulary and grammar to basic use within 3 months. Just enough to be friendly, order things, and get directions. I was thinking about a part time job to help push my immersion further, but that's a no go as a gaijin, right? I'd need the basic Japanese in the first place.
Sidenote, I've watched some videos with Mongolians, and Korean intonation and pace sounds so similar to Mongolian. More physical similarities between Koreans and Mongolians. I'm told I appear Korean and I made friends with Mongolians in China quickly. I also get along very quickly with Koreans. Whereas with Chinese and Japanese I have to pass an observation period and there is still distancing.
日本で外国人が商売をするなら，「外国人」であることを全面に出していった方が良いよ。そうすれば他の日本人経営者よりも「特別」であることができるから有利になる。あと，アルバイトは外国人でも問題無いけど、日本語ができないと選択肢が少なくなると思う。
自動翻訳できなかったらごめんね。私は語尾力が無いから。
@@user-pk1qe5yl7v It's ok, we have Google AI these days to translate! One reason I'm comfortable going to Japan. The business idea is just exports, so I don't need a management job with a company. I really wanted something temporary, like restaurant work. Because I don't plan long term stays. Maybe come and go 3 or 4 times a year.
It's nice to know that there are options! Thank you for responding. I will figure something out. Maybe I only need 50 hours a week for the business. There's too much free time! I don't want to waste it. I have an English degree and I'm a native US speaker, but I don't want to teach.
Thanks again for your reply!
for me as a British, Korean is easier to learn in both speaking and writing system and most effective to use with only using small number of words.
I'm also British and agree with you
The reason why you are so good at English is because we secretly practice English while we sleep。😜
@@army4rose
@@user-uo4qi5ou9s yep 😂
Korean was made with the intent of making it easy for anyone to learn
agree! Super easy
I think it's up to your mother language. As a Korean, definately Japanese is a lot easier to learn. Both have very similar sentence structure and grammar is pretty much same. But Kanji can be quite an issue on the high level.. Chinese feels much more difficult though.. I guess it's a totally different language from two.
Japanese is easy to learn but hard to master especially the formal Japanese part, it does require more time to polish
@@recuerdos2457 that's probably because you're not Korean. Korean language emphasizes formal style even more so than the Japanese language, so it's much easier for us Koreans to learn Japanese.
I‘m Chinese, I can even guess some of Japanese words based on Mandarin and English. 😂
Korean and japanese both absorbed a lot of English words
Thanks for sharing, for historical interaction, where can I see the full tree chart?
As a Korean learner, I can say that the honorific in japanese exist also in Korean and are even harder because there's six way to conjugate a verb... 😅 However, the video was really interesting and so pleasant to watch ❤️🫶🏼
i don't think she can really speak korean
As a Korean, Simplify the honorific.. it isn’t important
맞아요 그러니까 한국어와 일본어는 같은 어족이고 터키인들조차 쉽게 배울 정도니 다 같이 알타이어족으로 분류하는게 맞습니다
굳이 떼어서 분류하려면 대륙 한반도의 영향을 받아 완성 됐음이 분명한 일본어는 한국어족으로 묶는 게 맞는데 정치적 정서적 문제 때문에 못한다고 봐야죠
According to my experience of learning all Chinese Korean and Japanese,
Korean has very simple consonants and vowels.
If you know grammar in the beginning, it becomes very easy to read and write afterwards.
한국어를 사랑해주셔서 감사합니다❤
You made a great video.😊 Many Westerners misunderstand that Japanese and Korean are genetically related to Chinese. You explained the origin of these languages well. They have completely different origins.
But I think Korean grammar is a little more difficult than Japanese grammar. Because of their easy writing system, many people believe that it would be easy language.😅
Korean and Japanese grammar have the same level of difficulty once you get past the basics.
Zoe did not speak Korean or Japanese at all while making videos on Japanese, Korean, Chinese. She just thought that it would be easy.
@Emilio Fermi That's right. The perception that Korean will be easy is too widespread among people who haven't actually learned it. There are many articles or videos on the Internet that compare the difficulty levels of these three languages, but the majority of people who make those things can only speak Japanese and Chinese, but cannot speak Korean. And they think that Korean is a fairly easy language.
日本和韩国本质属于东北亚人，最早是从俄罗斯远东地区迁入的。
한글은 가장 배우기 쉽고 활용하기 쉬운 과학적인 문자체계입니다... 한편, 한국어는 이 세상에서 가장 복잡하고 진보된 언어입니다... 한국어의 기본적인 문법체계는 알타이어 계통의 유목민 언어와 유사하며 조사가 붙는 교착어이지만 동사와 형용사의 어미가 복잡하게 변화하는 서구식의 굴절어 형태를 동시에 가집니다... 또한 중국어처럼 고립어 형태를 띠는 특징도 있습니다... 일본어는 그러한 한국어의 사투리 언어입니다... 그러나 일본어는 받침발음이 거의 없고 모음의 숫자가 단순해서 발음하기 쉬운 경향이 있지만 그러한 이유로인해 일본인이 다른 언어를 배우려면 복잡한 발음을 하는것에 매우 어려움을 겪습니다... 한국어는 서구와 동양의 주요한 언어들이 가지는 특징을 동시에 가지고 있으면서 수천년간 중국과 인접하여 있으면서 중국어적인 특징도 일부 가지고 있죠... 그래서 한국어는 완벽히 배우기에는 이 세상에서 가장 복잡하고 어려운 언어입니다
Mean while in hong kong we using traditional chinese where there is 口語 and 書面語 where the way you speak and write is different. The character are also more complex because it is traditional not simplified use by cheap chinese. ex 戀愛= 恋爱。Honestly they are more complex but it saves 0.1 sec in physical writing and same time in typing on keyboard
AMAZING BEAUTIFUL!!!
For me as a German native Japanese is easily the hardest, because I'm unable to retain the Hiragana/Katakana somehow and the grammar boggles my brain the most. Chinese grammar is by far the easiest, having every regular syllable as a single character (even Korean deviates from this rule) that then usually has at most two regular and an additional retracted pronunciation (for example 行 = xíng/háng; 了 = le/liǎo/lou) imo makes up for basically being illiterate when it comes to reading entirely new words (where Japanese usually hints at the pronunciation with Kana if Kanji are involved).
Chinese grammar is really the simplest
어느 나라나 언어에 대해 깊게 파고들면 배우기 어렵다고들 하지만... 한국어 문법은 한국사람들도 정말 어려워합니다... 다른 나라 언어 유창하게 구사하시는 분들 정말 존경합니다
맞아ㅠㅠ
韩语相当于中国方言，很多发音和中国方言差不多
@@Stt49279어디 중국방언과 동일한데?
@@cucushin283 czcams.com/video/q40Y0sIqsy4/video.html
@@Stt49279怎么可能
Japanese is probably the hardest. If you are talking about written Language systems, Japanese is the hardest. You have to learn Kanji, which the Chinese use, but ALSO Katakana and Hiragana, three systems all at once, all used together! Chinese is tonal, which is difficult, but its grammar is simpler than Japanese and Korean. Korean has a simple written system, like latin script. However, on top of this, Japanese has levels of fomality which is almost like another language...and even a lot of Japanese don't know it.
面白い！！日本語のどこが難しいか客観的に知ることがあんまりないから嬉しいです！！！
言語の難しさの要素はたくさんありますね、、
As a Korean, i think for us japanese is easiest one to learn, then english then chinese or could be other way around between eng and chinese. For chinese i’m talking about cantonese specifically because there’s less ‘r’ sound and i found that there’s more similar sounding words in terms of pronunciation.
私も韓国語が1番楽です
ハングルは読めないし、書けないですが、リスニングは得意ですｦｦｦ
音が似てるものも多いので、基礎単語だけ分かればかなり会話を聞き取れるレベルになれますよね？
反対に中国語は文字で意味が少しだけ伝わってきますが、リスニングだとほんとに何もわからないです。
日本人からすると2つの言語はこのように真逆の印象になります。
あと、広東語についてですが、確かに音は呉音なので、私たちと似てる物も多いですが、声調が標準語よりも悪魔的に難しいです…
私達の様なアクセント言語話者だとやはり声調の複雑さは言語を難解にさせますね。標準語が4種類で、タイ語が5種類で、広東語が6~9種類(音なので、人によって考え方が違う)になるようです…多すぎます。音痴が治るくらい難しいようです。冗談ではありません。
I wish Chinese and Japanese would adopt Korean writing system 😅I speak Chinese but reading the characters is a nightmare 😅,
I am native Korean and can speak Japanese. I totally agree with you that learning and speaking Japanese are so much easier for me.
你学中文是准备偷过去申遗么？
LOL your comment is lovely! Cantonese has 7 or 8 tones or something, which sounds SO HARD to me as a Mandarin speaker😂
As someone who learned all three, Japan is the hardest because of the forms and writing systems. The grammar is the most similar to my mother tongue language. As for Chinese, the tones will frustrate you but it’s manageable. But if we are talking about traditional Chinese, I will put that alongside with Japanese.
Korean is the simplest, I self study it and hanja form is also manageable due to prior knowledge in Chinese.
in order to actually make sense when speaking or writing chinese it's increadibly hard and not easy for the grammar part like the video said. there are different way to address different items like for a ship, it'd be yi sou, or for smaller things like apples or oranges it's yi ge. but not all small things because when it's pencils its yi zhi but for some reason yi zhi is also used for animals. there's many many more like yi ba for guns knives, yi zhang for chairs paper, yi liang for cars bikes, yi pian for thin stuff, yi ding for tents yi dong for buildings and so much more. it can seem easy when you're just reading one sentence but as you keep reading it'll seem like it never stops changing
@@iloveappleslalala量词的多样化有点折磨初学者，口语表达最多是感觉别扭，书面表达就是语法错误，更不谈还有众多的成语典故，汉语口语可能很容易，想要优秀的汉语写作能力，可以说很难很难，汉语母语的人如我，写作水平也是差强人意，语法都可能搞错😂
As I French, I'm learning english of course (C1 level), German (B2), Russian as a beginner, in my school I can learn if I want four languages. So it's remains one language to learn and I hesitate with japanese because I love this country, but chinese for business is more effective. In addition with my experience in other languages and latin speaker which languages is the best for me acording you in comments between Japan and Chinese ? and why?
Thanks.
Luc
I think Japanese is the most difficult language to speak more natively. Because you have to change its form depens on your age, social position, situation or circumstances etc... And sometimes its grammar is completely different from what is written in a textbook. That's so interesting.
外国人の人はそんなの気にしなくても伝わりますよ😊
Zoe终于做其他亚洲语言的节目了！好开心！
中文普通话吴语粤语日语韩语越南语这些东亚语言一起学起来真的很有意思。Learning languages 令我欲罢不能。
（Zoe如果来日本 请让我这个中日英流利的杭州人给你做导游！😊）
谢谢邀请！以后会多做亚洲语言的视频🥰
@@zoe.languages 太好啦！너무 좋아！最高です！
@@zoe.languages I don't want you to make a video about a language you can't speak. The Korean and Japanese words you pronounced in this video are so awkward. If you had studied Japanese and Korean for just three days, you wouldn't have made such a strange pronunciation. Find out how to pronounce "Baekje"...
I hope you make videos only about languages you can speak, such as German, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese.
@@tanmantan9275 You know that most linguists do not master the languages they study. and she's not even the linguist! Why so serious ? This is just a general informational video to give us some basic ideas. I found it interesting and learned new things. We don't watch her video to learn Korean. She's a content creator and can do whatever she wants, if you're so obsessed with her Korean pronunciation and think she is not legit, just don't watch 😂
@LY W Some of the informations in this video are wrong. She just brought some misconception of Korean or Japanese from the Internet.
I wonder if someone ever managed to learn these three languages at a high level, since attempting to learn one must already be a big undertaking! I'm a French speaker who's learning Thai and it's very time consuming.
there are over 2 million ethnic korean chinese living in china, their mother language are both korean and chinese, and many of them choose to study and work in japan. it's common for them to speak these three languages at a high level.
@@bohu4586 Thanks for the info but in that case, both Korean and Mandarin are their mother tongue. I was more thinking about people who learn these 3 languages from scratch in the course of their lives.
@@Chtigga ok, it's definetely harder than an asian guy to learn english , german and french.
It's equivalent to learning Italian or Spanish for east Asians. Like the op said it's hella tough for non-Eu people to learn romance or Germanic languages
@@prasanth2601 not exactly equivalent because Italian and Spanish writing systems are quite straightforward, there's no comparison to Japanese and Chinese. You may argue that the difficulty is similar when it comes to grammar, but it's much easier to start reading European languages than Asian ones
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