I'm a Korean American who grew up with a very limited speaking ability in Korean, and I had a big mental block about it. In 2019, I started using LingQ for Korean along with weekly lessons with a teacher. At some point my streak was like 600 days or something. I'm fluent now and in April I spent a month in South Korea and had a great time there. I still use LingQ for Korean, importing ebooks of novels. LingQ has been a super important part of my language learning journey and being able to connect with my heritage. Thank you to you and your team for making that possible!
I hear you man. I quit learning Korean in 1995, after studying intensely for 3 years. With regret, I've accepted the fact that I will never be good at Korean. However, in 2022 I visited Korea and was amazed at how much of the language is still stored deep in my brain, after all that time. I am not fluent or even good at Korean, but I can make myself understood and get around the country with no problem. So I guess language study is never really wasted.
To me it doesn't look like you're bad at all in Korean. Perfectionism is good when you reach level B2/C1, when you begin or are preintermediate, this might kill your progress by leading to frustration.
I think a healthy goal is to be b1 in a language rather than b2-c1 which takes years and getting to b1 is quicker and would be enough to get by and fall in that language, who really is studying a language to be able to understand political articles and such
@@cond.oriano4945 This is low key genius advice. Myself and I'm sure many others, probably set the expectations or goals of learning a language a bit too high, and that leads to frustration ultimately. Will now reset my goal, thank you :D
This video is very important in dealing with the survivorship bias in language learning. Hearing that a legend in language learning is having some trouble is so surreal, im feeling that its normal to have some troubles in learning. Thank you for the video!
@@yomama...isaverynicelady survivorship bias is when we only focus on successful outcomes and ignore the unsuccessful ones. For example, if we study only successful videos on "how I became a big youtuber", we overlook those who failed or struggled. To avoid this bias, its important to consider both succesdul and unsuccessful cases to make better decisions and get a more balanced view of reality.
C’mon, he’s still really good! But Steve is getting old :-( Look at how chess grandmaster DO become weaker as they age. Chances are Steve WOULD have learned it if he was younger!
@@trainerred6582 absolutely, hes super good in this regard. However, its good to know that even pros face diffciulties, so i shouldnt feel that bad when im having my fair share of difficulties.
As a korean who watch your video usually to get linguistical inspiration for learning, It is same logic to East asian towards English. I have been learning English about 15 years since middle school, I'm unwilling to say I can speak English anywhere because I still need a little time to structure sentence in everyday conversation . But I can speak japanese fluently even if I only learn this about 4~5years, and doesn't study japanese grammar deeply. and maybe I can better to learn Chinese than Western people. (Chinese is even hard to KR JP people) But Actually, Native english speaker don't need to learn foreign language, But We, East asian must learn English in global world. What a asymmetrical tragic!
Yes you are absolutely right. I didn’t realise this until I decided to learn Korean. I have been at it for 3 years and it feels like I have nothing to show for the effort. I speak several Western European languages and even though we think it is difficult- in comparison it is not. Learning another western language is like crossing a pond- learning Korean is like crossing the ocean. I truly understand why English is harder for you.
As a english learner ı think ı am luckier than who is a native English speaker and not learner any foreign language. Because we can get more intellectual skills by learning another foreign language.
English is a very forgiving language. You can say something in a strange way and miss out lots of words and to a native it is still understandable. English speakers are used to hearing English spoken in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways by people from all different countries. Stop worrying about being perfect and just speak! We will understand! You might not understand us though, that's a different problem :D
It's easy to learn English, just because it surrounds you. As for Korean though... I guess for people who strongly immersed in Korean media it could be somewhat similar, but still not even.
It was fun to see a photo of you two in Korea so long ago! I think this is a great video. You're so incredibly accomplished as a polyglot that it is really valuable to see that you have struggled at times.
It is interesting to see you put in such intense bursts of effort only to give up on the language. You truly are in it for the process and the content. I think this experience is not so different from the initial enthusiasm a serious learner of their first foreign language has, only to realise a year and a half later they're not having fun and they haven't reached their goals. The only difference is they give up entirely and you just pick another language 😂
Good to hear that even the almighty Steve Kaufmann encounters the same pitfalls we do! PS I had no idea LingQ goes so far back in time, from what you're saying it's gone a long way, it makes me appreciate that it's so affordable even for us in "Ceastern Europe" even more
I've been self learning Korean passively for about 10 years now (1 year self study, 2 years in college, and slow study ever since). The hardest part for me is what you described. Finding kitty materials with a good narrator. I'm still finding my perfect fit but i love hearing other linguist's stories
Steve Kaufmann's effort on learning languages reminds me the tips of the first English course I faced in my childhood, in the 70's. It was called Aprenda Inglês from Bloch Editores which enphasized the need of working on vocabulary, structure and courage to talk... Thank you for keeping the flame burning, Steve!
I love the sound of Korean, and the alphabet (if that's what it's called) is very lovely: I like how the characters 'stack' together. It must make texting very simple and short. However, I am sure the grammar is very difficult given that the need to show respect seems to be built in. I have to say that your voice has a slight trace of what - an Irish accent? My only rule for learning a language is what you said: it has to be enjoyable. I learned German (sort of) by reading the poetry.
Yes, yes it is difficult. I have been learning Korean since 2015 and I feel I still have so much to learn. I am not learning any other language because Korean alone takes up a lot of my time. 😊
I love the fact, that he is learning Korean from Japanese. This just makes sense if you are very fluent in Japanese since both Japanese and Korean share a lot of grammatical concepts. 7:10
I've lived in Korea and made every effort to use the language for 15 years. I'd had a year of Korean in college before I ever got here. And I was fluent in Japanese before ever studying Korean, so that first year I was like "hey this is easy!" BUT after all that, I still struggle. I look up new words every single day. And when I read a book, I often look up hundreds of new words. Yeah I'm fluent at this point (I guess?) but I still don't feel like I'm really good at Korean. It's an extremely challenging language, but that also makes it fascinating.
@@juliannaruffini The vocabulary is endless-and not just words that exist in theory, but words that are actually used frequently. You'll have some head-start on Sino-Korean words if you've studied certain other East Asian languages, but that only goes so far. Glancing at your channel, it appears you've studied Turkish, so you may find Korean grammar similar and relatively easy to pick up. But for many people, the grammar is very challenging too. All that said, I've loved studying Korean and encourage you to give it a try if you haven't already. Just...be ready for a long (but rewarding) journey!
Hi I'm glad to read this! I'm considering moving to Korea to teach. I know some japanese which helps and I'm self studying. I hope it isn't impossible to learn but my biggest challenge is how people speak sooo fast in korean film and tv!! And I feel like the colloquial everyday korean is very different from what I encounter in textbooks. I'm using Integrated Korean and hoping to get through the first book at least by this week, it's not very long! Please do offer more advice on how to improve and study korean, I'd love to hear it!
@@KangNamPelon thxs I learnt several languages also arabic and chinese. The amount of words is challenging in every language. Tonal languages are the most difficult.
@@juliannaruffini Sounds like you've already learned some tough ones! No tones to worry about in Korean, just intonation, and unlike Arabic, you won't have to learn multiple dialects (although the older folks in places like Jeju will be delighted if you do). Best of luck in your studies!
0:31 holy moly moly you were the most gorgeous young man, Mr Kaufmann! And even now you are the fittest and youngest looking 78 year old I have seen! I believe it's due to your healthy lifestyle habits, language learning which keeps the brain active, and positive, energetic and joyful personality. Would you consider doing a video on this please?
I must be weird. I'm finding Korean really easy and natural. I dunno if it's because I really love BTS or what. I thought Japanese was relatively easy (other than endless Kanji), but I find Korean easier. I can read/write easier and quicker than speaking/listening. But I'm really into reading lyrics, translating. I am divorced, empty nester, 52 and want to travel someday. I really love Japan, Japanese culture and music, second is Korean, third is Spanish because I took 4 years in school.
@@gratitudegrateful705 국방 외국어 대학 학생이죠? 저도 거기에서 한국말을 공부했어요. I'd be happy to give what help I can, having gone through the course already (I graduated in 2014.)
He mentions the count is not quite meaningful, as it may include 100 verbs with 10 different endings as 1000 separate words, or 1000 nouns with 10 different prepositions/conjunctions as 10000 words.
because in korean the stem of the words stay the same while its ending changes according to combinations or conjugations and also the fact that he has a chinese base had helped him a lot, but besides those reasons I need to recognize that Steve is indeed a master of languages
I love the book you show at around 7 minutes in on Korean. You're learning it from a Japanese book. I'm a native English speaker. I used to be able to speak Japanese. When I lived in Japan, I wanted to study French. So, I have a book very similar to this. Just, instead of Korean, it's French with all the explanations in Japanese. It was a great way to learn another language (though my French is only sufficient to read books on very select topics in mathematics).
I lived in Korea from 2010-2015 and have been living in Japan from 2016. In Japan I passed JLPT N2 in just a couple years of studying and passively learning by just reading everything and overhearing conversations. Unfortunately, Korean was nothing like that. However, after a trip to Seoul, I became nostalgic for the beautiful Korean language and I'm going to give it another go. Because of it's similarities to Japanese and now having a decent grasp of that language, I think that will help me in the way that native Japanese speakers seem to pick up Korean so easily. It's a hard language but I enjoy the challenge too!
Having a love of Korean music (Seotaiji stan for life) and the endless content of variety shows, dramas, and the amazing food, I personally find it hard to not go back to Korean every year or so. I’m going back through Pimsleur for the first couple months of the year just to see how much I remember (not a lot), but it’s hard to find content targeted to certain levels like B1 or B2 that aren’t dry books or boring graded readers.
me too :D My mother tongue is Farsi. My second language is English (grew up in Canada). In school we learned a bit of French so I kind of understand it. I later studied Sanskrit. I find Korean can be similar to Sanskrit, but I find Korean more difficult because it is not 100% phonetic like Sanskrit. I am trying to learn through TTMIK and Duolingo
..Uyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world. If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation. In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization.... Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ). Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River. Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language. There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language.... The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River.... We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia. We are experts of China and Asia. Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921. The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945. The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949. Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning.... After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China. In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China. Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language. From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed. Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Potonghua. China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ... Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet... China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming. Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa. China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming... What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES? Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide? How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "? How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "? Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs? ..v....
Hi Steve! The Lingq app is a very good idea, too bad that the most useful function it has, that of being able to import videos, has the limitation of only 5 in total in the free version. It would be interesting to be able to provide this function without limitations in the free version, so that the app can be used all over the world, since there are a lot of people who cannot pay for the Premium membership. It would be a good gesture on your part, and the App would be massively used by people, even without resources.
Just a quick note. 圖書館(library) is actually not a Chinese loanword (strictly speaking). It is a Japanese-coined Chinese vocabulary (和製漢詞) in the 1800s.
In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization.... Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ). Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River. Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language. There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language.... The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River.... We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia. We are experts of China and Asia. Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921. The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945. The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949. Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning.... After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China. In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China. Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language. From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed. Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Potonghua. China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ... Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet... China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming. Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa. China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming... What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES? Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide? How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "? How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "? Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
I learned Korean at DLI in the army for 1.5 years. Which is great, coz if I had tried learning it myself, I would have put it on the back burner many times. Then I was stationed in Korea where I actively sought interaction with the Katusas (who know English). I was lucky enough to work with the real ROK soldiers who didn't know English and usually an hour of time to kill before missions, I had available language partners every day (and nothing better to do). The Army way is probably best for learning Korean (if ur lucky enough to get stationed there).
For some reason I'm reluctant to continue learning German 😬 I default to English for my online learning or for entertainment. Y las pelis las veo en español ya que el doblaje a dia de hoy es muy bueno. Auf Deutsch etwas zu gucken oder hören ist mir so anstrengend 😅 I get the feeling that the more languages we try to learn or adquire (whatever they call it) the less we make progress in all of them. In my recent visit to Germany I noticed I didn't forget any of the German I've learned over the years but I just didn't want to speak it. Every time I could get away with speaking English I would use it 😊
I started studying Korean a year ago and was surprised by how difficult the language to me as someone fluent in both Mandarin and Japanese. While enjoying watching Korean dramas a couple of hours a day, I continue to struggle with grammar points and verb conjugations in my text book studying. Lack of 汉字 also doesn't help and I am sometime struggling to connect a Korean word with its Chinese or Japanese counterpart.
The many grammar forms take a while to get used to but you hit the nail in the head: the lack of Hanzi is in my opinion what makes Korean truly difficult. Korean uses a massive amount of Hanciyu but they dont use characters to show the etymology, so everything looks like it has random meanings with no patterns or roots. To make matters worse, they still add hanzi suffixes to words to create very specific meanings WITHOUT showing the hanzi that makes the meaning clear in the first place, this really makes things unnecessarily difficult in my view.
@@temporal000000000000 I think it's more about phonetics combined with the hard Japanese-like grammar. As for hanzi, it's true that for us who could speak another Asian language, their lack is a huge disadvantage, I'm not sure it's the same for other people. At least Koreans have learned to put spaces between words. As for me, I'd prefer Korean be written either in Kanji or using Latin letters, rather than in so-called easy Hangul.
I'm learning Korean and I hope that one day to find my best friend who returned to North Korea over a decade ago. We lost contact and still looking for her and I know that one day I will find her🙏💕
Those of my friends who are good at Korean are those who are super interested in K-pop, and Korean idols 😂😂. They have huge passion for k-pop and so they are interested in the Korean language. To be honest, there are far more Chinese people who are interested in Korean and Japanese than those who are interested in English, but English is a compulsory subject since elementary school so it’s more like people have to learn it because it’s useful worldwide, rather than they are interested or want to take the initiates to learn. But I’m somehow different, I lean more towards English world because it’s like a rich ocean for me to explore, I choose to read English materials when I’m free, and I have little interest to learn other cultures and languages because English is enough for me.
Hi Steve, when I was a teenager I started to take lessons with a local teacher but I gave up at the time howerer restarted to learn english since 2022 (with commitment now). Also have the pleasure to know your channel through Gabriel Poliglota and I intend to become fluent till the end of 2024. I also started to learn Italian. Currently I'm learning the vocabulary in italian of topics that interests me and its been joyful. I admire a lot your work with languages and your tips has been useful in I way I could'nt imagine. I reccomend you to all my friends and I hope you achieve more recognition in your career. Compliments from Brazil.
I really admire this guy. I first learnt about him from a collaboration he did with innerFrench (great video btw) and i was really impressed at how well he spoke French and even more impressed was I when I heard how many languages he's picked up. 😨 It's also funny to hear differences in people's voices depending on what language they're speaking lol
Korean for me was a struggle too....I may get back to it in a few years...I think for me the issue was the alphabet....I could read it with difficulty and whatnot...but at the end of the day it was very hard learning words.... In contrast for Japanese, and this may be a hot take, I could learn words very easily because I focused very early on on learning all common kanji up to N1....so many words became so easy to learn because of kanji...I love kanji so it was no problem dedicating almost 5 hours daily for a couple of years to just learning it. (that and the fact that I was in the romance stages with Japanese at the time lol so I could easily spend even more time after kanji doing other stuff related to the language like vocab or reading/listening) But for Korean, the same "shortcut" doesn't apply unfortunately :( although I feel by what little I knew from Korean that Korean is to Japanese what Italian is to Spanish. I've been getting more into KDramas so I may get back to learning Korean in the future, who knows...after all, I only ever got curious about Japanese because of anime :D
For me that language would be Vietnamese. I’ve worked pretty hard on it since the beginning of 2014 (along with a few earlier attempts), but it’s still really hard to pronounce correctly despite working with several dozen tutors to correct it. The lack of content I like is another big issue with the language. Listening is also pretty hard because there are a lot of sounds that are hard to make out and the tones are also hard to make out. I’ve tried doing minimal pair exercises, but I’ve had only minimal success. Reading is a little easier, though.
Oh my gosh, this! I feel like I can hear words and tones pretty easily. I checked out an audio learning vietnamese program and I was immediately humbled. There were a couple of words that sounded exactly the same to me. The tone and everything seemed the same. I tried over and over to differentiate the sounds and just gave up. Still am intimidated by Vietnamese and haven't gone back.
I started my Korean journey in February this year. I've gone through flashcards(~10-40 new cards per day), for grammar I studied Billy's beginner series and now I'm going through intermediate grammar, watching various fun to educational videos on youtube and slowly working through a webnovel I'm very intrested in. I'd say I'm at an early B1 level now.
That's awesome! Ive started this week and have hangul firmly in my brain now, all im trying to do now is build up some basic vocabulary so when i start watching comprehensive input I'll have something to build from. Do you have any channel recommendations for a beginner that you found helpful
I studied and lived in Japan and now in Korea and Korean is much harder! Japanese grammar and especially pronunciation is very easy and I could have real daily long conversations after six months of learning and never had to use English and always made myself understood. I still love and miss how comfortable Japanese is to speak compared to Korean. Japanese only has five distinct vowels while Korean has many similar sounding charachters. My native language is Swedish which also has those vowels (like "å") but even so I confuse the pronunciation of (å) 오 and 어 (a). The Korean ㅈ and ㅊ also sound similar. ㅈ is not "ji" or "chi" but somewhere in between and ㅊ needs a higher pitch. When ㅊ and 오 or 어 are combined, it's easy to misunderstand. My taxi to 신촌 went for 신천 instead cause the driver misunderstood my bad pronunciation. Words like 전국, 천국, 정부, 정보 sound similar, too and it's hard to guess the spelling when one hears Korean while Japanese is easy to spell after hearing it (if using hiragana and not kanji). Korean is almost like the Danish version of Japanese. While Swedish and Danish are similar, Danish sounds very muffled and I heard even Danish infants learn their own language later than other people in the world! Korean pronunciation also varies depending on the syllable order. The pronuciation is soften is the charachter is repeated. 공공= kong gong. The grammar is also slightly harder but I guess German grammar or languages grammatical gender are even harder. ---------------------------------- Object particle: Japanese: always を Korean: 을 or 를 Subject particle: Japanese: always が Korean: 이 or 가 Topic particle: Japanese: always は Koresan: 는 or 은 These can often be omitted so they aren't that much of a problem. But other features are harder: ----------------------------------- Normal polite form: Korean: -어요 or 아요 (해요) Then, commonly used honorific level (하세요) and deferential levels (합니다)+ plain + intimate levels. So five speech levels while Japanese needs just 3, usually. ----------------------------------- Perhaps the Japanese て- form is the exception where there are about 5 options (て, って, いて, いで, んて) while only 2 (어/아) or even 1 ("and"/고) in Korean. The hardest for me is when features/connectives to a verb varies depending on if the word ends with a vowel or consonant as is so common in Korean. About the pronunciation: Japanese is virtually always pronounced as it's written while Korean sometimes isn't( 연락= 열락). One more annoying thing: if I learn "clothes" is 옷 "o", it's hard to understand when it sounds like "osun" 옷은 or 옷이 "oshi" or "osul" 옷을 depending on how it's used. Korean has so many "soft"/silent ending consonants that are only pronounced when combines with other particles/words. -----------------------------------
I kinda want Korean to be my next language! I've already studied some Japanese, and I believe Korean and Japanese have a lot of grammar in common. I also think the Hangul alphabet looks pretty cool, and I adore BTS, so those are probably my main motivations!
Very cool, I've dabbled in bunch of languages - german, russian, chinese and japanese, but I didn't put enough effort to actually learn any of those on an acceptable level. As much fun as it is, to know some german words for jokes, japanese to get the general idea what do characters talk about in an anime show, or recognize some chinese signs, it's quite a struggle to stay consistent and focus on one language. I feel like this linkq page would be really helpful to track progress and pinpoint the gaps
Another thing that makes Korean difficult is that written Korean is often formal with 다 endings.. while spoken Korean typically ends in 요 or 니다. So, if you're reading a lot, you have to offset it with listening so that you don't come off as a dictionary.
Ten years off and on with Korean, here. I am in love with the language and interact with it daily on some level, but have found it incredibly difficult to find interesting comprehensible intermediate content so progress is very, very slow. Been a while since I checked LingQ out. May need to give it another go.
I also think korean is extremely difficult and i don't even know why i literally can't remember the vocabulary. the language doesn't have a lot of very difficult features like tones the writing system is supposed to be easy. and i am very motivated there so so much stuff in korean that is rare in other languages. like handy websites video games movies and music that is so good it even managed to get popular in the west its really interesting that such a small country accomplished so much .compare that to some other languages that i am learning like Albanian i put in way less effort but i understand way more and no offence to Albanians but Albanian tv is just boring .there are no decent RUclipsrs or podcasters speaking the language my main reason for learning it is because i sometimes meet Albanians irl who only speak Albanian.
Steve, Given what you said in the previous video, what do you think about doing (or adding into LingQ) a million word challenge instead of a ninety day challenge - or, even better, a million words in a hundred days challenge. If you think about it, 10.000 words a day isn’t that much, and it would go a long way to proving what you talked about in the previous video.
Native Mandarin speaker here. I have had no problems with learning Japanese but had tremendous problems learning korean. I think it is due to the connected words and codas in the syllables. It's hard to make out the word boundaries with Korean.
@@user-vf7cn3oy8gLinguists do not believe Japanese and Korean are in the same language family. They have very similar grammar, but the vast majority of linguists believe that they are not related at all.
@@user-vf7cn3oy8gVIVA JAPAN. If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation. In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization.... Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ). Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River. Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language. There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language.... The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River.... We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia. We are experts of China and Asia. Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921. The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945. The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949. Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning.... After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China. In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China. Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language. From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed. Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Potonghua. China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ... Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet... China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming. Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa. China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming... What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES? Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide? How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "? How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "? Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
@@BobbiasUyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world. If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation. In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization.... Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ). Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River. Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language. There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language.... The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River.... We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia. We are experts of China and Asia. Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921. The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945. The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949. Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning.... After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China. In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China. Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language. From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed. Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Potonghua. China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ... Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet... China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming. Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa. China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming... What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES? Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide? How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "? How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "? Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
0:55 This is not the best example of Chinese cultural influence as Korea’s Gyeongbokgung Palace was built in 1395, about eleven years earlier than the Forbidden City (China), which began construction in 1406. When noting similarities between China and other Asian countries, it is often assumed outside of Asia that they are similar due to borrowing from China, but in many cases, that is false. China influenced other cultures, but was also influenced by other cultures as well like Mongolian, Indian, etc.
..Uyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world. If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation. In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization.... Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ). Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River. Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language. There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language.... The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River.... We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia. We are experts of China and Asia. Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921. The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945. The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949. Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning.... After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China. In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China. Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language. From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed. Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Potonghua. China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ... Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet... China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming. Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa. China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming... What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES? Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide? How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "? How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "? Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs? ...v.....
I think it can be challenging if you don't know anything about Turkic languages. My second "native" language (I know very little about it) is Chuvash. Phonetics, grammar, word order are similar. So I fond out that Korean language learning process was and is fun and easy. However, it didn't help with Japanese, because i struggled with Kanji a lot😢😂
I have learnt several languages, including Arabic and Hebrew. And as a Swede, the hardest one has been Korean, so far. It's the sentence structure that keeps tripping me up. 😊
Yeah it's all about drive and consistency as you know. I became fairly fluent in 2 years just by having that passion and consistency every day. I would learn 15-20 words every day so I have a very large vocabulary. If you include all those endings and such, it would be what, like 550,000 words lol but in reality those dont count, just the base words do I would think.
I'm not into other languages besides English, and I don't want to learn another I mean the learning process of any language is beautiful but I just don't want to acquire another one. So I have no idea what languages it could be more difficult or easier than English. 😅😅😅
I don’t have a problem learning Mandarin even if it’s another Asian language, but I can’t even HEAR many letters of the Korean alphabet. No matter how many online Korean pronunciation teachers I listen to, it continues to sound like incomprehensible mumbling. I might be better off with a non-Korean teacher of Korean to improve my chances of hearing his “bad” Korean pronunciation.
I have been going in and out of Mandarin for over 10 years. having many Chinese home stay "daughters" has been fun . After getting a degree in Russian ( not nearly as difficult a language as some people say ) and doing Latin and French very successfully at school.... during that time I started to teach myself German and Portuguese as a hobby, which languages I use on line when needed. ... Briefly... you sort of paralleled how I see language learning--relating the new to the already known in terms of structure, vocab and grammar.---it's allll patterns, which some people grasp more easily than others. I "see" language learning as using a gigantic linguistic Lego set... swapping some shapes and colours to build up from known>>>new.
Hi! Any specific Russian resources you can share? My initial goal is reading, but of course fun basic to intermediate kids stuff is fun for me to start.
Uyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world. If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation. In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization.... Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ). Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River. Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language. There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language.... The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River.... We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia. We are experts of China and Asia. Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921. The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945. The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949. Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning.... After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China. In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China. Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language. From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed. Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Potonghua. China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ... Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet... China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming. Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa. China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming... What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES? Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide? How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "? How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "? Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
@@Thelinguist When I come across a word whose meaning I don't know I check it in online dictionaries like Cambridge but these dictionaries contain more than 1 meaning of the word. Do I need to learn all the meanings of the word or only that one which fits into the context of the particular sentence which i read ???
Respect for trying to learn Korean. But just because I fear that this video might deter some from learning it, it all, as Steve says, comes down to patience, enjoyment, and motivation. I've been learning Korean for over 5 years, and it's honestly such an beautiful language with such a fascinating history, culture, and some really lovely people behind it. If you don't find any interesting in it, that's fine. But if you're interested, try and stick with it. It can be difficult but it won't feel like work. Trust me.
Hopefully the takeaway for viewers is not that Korean is really hard but that even experienced language learners like Steve have difficulty learning languages. But if someone interest in the language/culture, stay motivated and can find interesting content he can make progress.
I've several times tried to learn Korean but always failed. I guess I probably just don't like this language. I perceive it as a "bad" copy of Japanese, with lots of unpleasant sounds and soulless "pipes" as a letters instead of cool Chinese characters.
@KnightOfEternity13 I'm sorry you had so much difficulty with Korean. It's hardly a copy of Japanese, though. It shares some similar syntax, grammar, and vocabulary. But it's a distinctive language with its own writing system, sounds, vocabulary, etc. So, I'm not sure how you came to that judgement, tbh.
@KnightOfEternity13 Korean also moved away from Hanja (their version of Chinese characters) because it didn't suit Korean as much as Hangul (the alphabet it created). Literacy, which previously had been something only the elite class at the time could achieve, skyrocketed among ordinary people as a result. For me, that's a sign of a forward-thinking culture that values simplicity, solutions when things aren't working, and isn't afraid to move away from tradition when necessary. Japanese kanji, hiragana, and katana is cool and all, but you could just as easily make an argument that having three writing systems (including one exclusively for foreign words) is pointlessly complicated and redundant. But y'know it's just a difference of opinion and preference. I guess one could make an argument that knowing Kanji helps Japanese learns read Chinese without knowing the language, etc.
@@peter9162 Yes, by "copy" I primarily meant the very similar grammatical structure and then the shared Sino-vocabulary. The fact that most linguists still insist these languages to be unrelated is remarkable, so the word "copy" naturally comes to my mind. Considering the theory that languages can "borrow" not only vocabulary, but also grammar if given enough time, it may be not so far from truth. As for abolition of characters, I guess many arguments can be made. I personally dislike that it has created many homophones and "artificially" prevents me from using my existing knowledge. Some people even say you should still try to learn Hanja, but that seems difficult when they are not used on a regular basis. From the other side Hangul still doesn't have the simplicity of Latin which I can read blazingly fast. I also don't find it to be so logical as many proponents argue. It's far from being phonetic having plenty of reading rules, and letters themselves still can change when conjugating a word. As for literacy, I think it skyrocketed in many countries in the XX century. Some of them did language reforms, while some didn't. Often these reforms had more political reasoning behind them. Phonetics is a thing I always struggle the most with. Japanese was a pleasant exception from the most East Asian languages, Korean though...not so much. I also tend to perceive languages with a "rich" unknown phonetics as less pleasant for ear. But I guess nothing can be done here. I get that it's mostly a question of preference, and my perception is greatly shaped by the fact I've learned one similar language before another.
It’s funny, I currently speak 7 languages, two of them are Chinese and Japanese but I can’t seem to get interested in Korean, even though nowadays, with Korean dramas and music being more and more popular, I just can’t feel interested in the language, I don’t know why. 😢
Same. Been trying to learn it for the last 1½ months but I just can't get a 'feel' for it. Strangely the more I learn it the less interested I am in learning it.
Commercialization of culture. When you think of Japan and China you think of rich high culture but with Korea you think of modern dramas and music made solely with mass appeal in mind.
Uyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world. If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation. In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization.... Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ). Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River. Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language. There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language.... The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River.... We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia. We are experts of China and Asia. Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921. The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945. The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949. Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning.... After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China. In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China. Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language. From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed. Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language. Mandarin language is not Potonghua. China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ... Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia. China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet... China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming. Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa. China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming... What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES? Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide? How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "? How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "? Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
@@peter9162 they measured various languages based on how similar they were to english in various categories and gave them more points if they were more different the only language that came out difficult than korean is ubykh (which is obscure other than for the amount of the sounds it has and is extinct anyways)
I think Arabic is harder because they don't write vowels, the grammar is very irregular (broken plurals, verbal nouns, etc.) and there are over 30 dialects each having its own grammar and vocabulary
I found Korean rather uncomplicated and it's easy to pronounce, and the sentence structure is easy to get used to. The most difficult part of Korean is probably the vast amount of vocabulary, with subtle differences between synonyms. However this probably is unimportant for the average learner who only needs 3000-5000 words to communicate and function well in the language.
Ive studied 11 languages, but only semi-fluent in 4. Of the languages that I quit, most were because of boredom or other circumstances, but not because the language was difficult. Korean was the only exception. I started studying korean in february for my trip to korea next week. I gave up after 6 weeks because it was taking 15-30 seconds to decipher the Hangul for each korean word. I currently study 100+ vocab words per day in each of tagalog, cebuano, spanish and german. After 6 weeks of korean, i probably knew less than 50 words. That said, I think the issue is solely related to my learning style, and the Hangul definitely does not match my learning style.
Honestly if u still wanna do it then my best advice is to not give up (yeah no shit lol). My point is simply that i had the exact same issue as u. It was taking me for ever to figure out what a single hangul sounded like and it was very strenuous. And it did get very frustrating at times cuz its like "its essentially an alphabet, why can i still not remember parts of it more easily?". But eventually it started to get easier and easier. So i know my advice is kinda "useless" lol and when it comes to learning techniques, im sure theres nothing i can tell u thats better than what steve can tell u lol. What i did was super simplistic, just look at it, try to decipher/figure it out, rinse and repeat. But hey, at some point it started to pay off. So if u ever wanna get back into it, thats my super duper expert advice😂😂😂
The weird thing about Hangul vs. Latin (e.g. for writing English) is that given enough time and knowing the exceptions, you can pronounce almost any phrase w/o knowing what it means; whereas in Chinese (pretend it's 1 thing for now), you may easily see what a logographic entity likely means while failing to spot the pronunciation hints and/or context-based irregularities (if existent) and/or using a wrong tone. I'll usually read faster in Mandarin as long as I instantly recognize the character (usually one syllable). Even transliteration makes more sense to me in Chinese while doing so, therefore I guess I'll not be fluent in comprehending Korean for at least many more years to come. Similar with Japanese, as I actually still haven't learnt most Kana (barely know あ,です & ちゃん). (Literally suck so bad, I'm doing better in Duolingo's Klingon than its Korean course. 😂)
Too bad lingq doesn't have Thai which I'm surprised. Back then, Thailand used or borrowed a lot of English stories to teach young kids, like the aesop's tales and maani series. I havent tried korean but I studied Japanese and I feel Thai is harder than Japanese because of the tone rules and then you have to figure out what word or meaning it is according to the tones, making reading incredibly slow and also there is also a modern font they use that looks like a different language.
I've just started learning korean so i can converse with koreans when i visit my friends there but im finding learning Hangul difficult, some if the letters i know but others are hard, does anyone have any tips to learning Hangul so it sticks
If you can steve, put some ads on your app and make it free , this way will suits a lot of people who wants to learn and not capable to pay by credit card 💳
Indeed, Korean is on a whole different level than even languages that have the same basic structure, such as Japanese. First the sound system. Compared with the 130 or so different "syllable" sound of Japanese, Korean apparently has some 3000+ different syllables. Then the writing: Kanji makes it easy to separate the root of words, whereas the changes that occur within syllables of the Korean alphabet means it takes quite a while to be able to tell what part of a whole string of letters are the basic word, declensions, sometimes even whether the last syllable is a subject, object or topic marker or even a so-called "euphonic" marker, like after a person's name, for example. And third, while both Korean and Japanese do not decline their verbs, Korean has some 900 or so verb "endings" (which are sometimes places not after, but before the verb. If Steve has found Korean difficult, I can't imagine someone who did not.
Interesting, I though Japanese was harder because the grammar is very close to Korean but you have to memorize so many Kanji, as opposed to hangeul that can be learnt in a day. I haven't tried learning Japanese though.
@@thedeemon You mentioned ''memorizing'' kanji, but that's the mistake many people make. Just find stories with both a translation (audio too, if possible) and "okurigana" that show you how to pronounce each new kanji you encounter in the text. After seeing the same kanji a few times, you'll learn the most frequent kanji, know how each is pronounced in a given context, with no more effort that if you were learning any alphabet-based language.
@@aliceberethart Absolutely correct. The Korean wave started with the release of the k-drama "Winter Sonata (dubbed in Japanese and broadcast on TV as Fuyu no sonata, which made such a splash in Japan that tourists started visiting South Korea as if they were going on a pilgrimage, visiting spots that had appeared in the drama. Within the year, the wave extended to China and then to other Asian countries, and finally to the rest of the world.
@@thedeemon While it's true that the hangul alphabet can be learned in a few hours, it takes quite a lot longer to achieve any degree of fluency reading it. On top of that, even after you can read more or less fluently, 1. you won't understand what you are reading, and 2. you won't even be able to pronounce correctly because many letters are pronounced differently depending on their position within words, or what letter precede or follow certain consonants, etc. This means that you won't even be able to correlate what you "read" and what you "hear" when watching videos, for instance, so it will take much longer than say, Japanese, for "comprehensible input" to develop fluency.
@@ytsangatsu Nah, it's not that hard as you paint it here. Of course it takes some time to get used to, but not long. After some days / weeks one can read (pronounce) any word in Korean (without knowing the meaning of course), in this time one would typically learn
hello steve , i really apreciate watching your videos about learning languages perhaps if you have avaliability could you answer my question , if you could give me as a general efficient learn daily schedule with so 2 hours of effort per day how would you manage your time with a language generally not considering personal preferences or etc , thank you
Is learning languages a full time job ? I am studying programming as well, dont know if i willl be able to do it by sneaking some time learning it daily
You can learn a language with only 1 hour a day of studying. I think for 99% of the people, language learning is not a full time job. It will just take a lot more years than it would, when you study like 8 hours a day.
I'm a Korean American who grew up with a very limited speaking ability in Korean, and I had a big mental block about it. In 2019, I started using LingQ for Korean along with weekly lessons with a teacher. At some point my streak was like 600 days or something. I'm fluent now and in April I spent a month in South Korea and had a great time there. I still use LingQ for Korean, importing ebooks of novels. LingQ has been a super important part of my language learning journey and being able to connect with my heritage. Thank you to you and your team for making that possible!
ooh I didn't even know you could import books to it! I just got it earlier this week since I feel like I'm plateauing. that's good to know
@@eyemohini It's a great way to make sure you have lots of engaging content. Hope it serves you well!
Good stuff, I need to emulate! What sites are you using to get Korean ebooks? Is it easy to import them to LingQ?
What a great story. Thanks for sharing!
@@gaminginfrench thank you! Happy to share
I hear you man. I quit learning Korean in 1995, after studying intensely for 3 years.
With regret, I've accepted the fact that I will never be good at Korean. However,
in 2022 I visited Korea and was amazed at how much of the language is still stored
deep in my brain, after all that time. I am not fluent or even good at Korean, but I can
make myself understood and get around the country with no problem.
So I guess language study is never really wasted.
To me it doesn't look like you're bad at all in Korean. Perfectionism is good when you reach level B2/C1, when you begin or are preintermediate, this might kill your progress by leading to frustration.
I think a healthy goal is to be b1 in a language rather than b2-c1 which takes years and getting to b1 is quicker and would be enough to get by and fall in that language, who really is studying a language to be able to understand political articles and such
@@cond.oriano4945 This is low key genius advice. Myself and I'm sure many others, probably set the expectations or goals of learning a language a bit too high, and that leads to frustration ultimately. Will now reset my goal, thank you :D
This video is very important in dealing with the survivorship bias in language learning. Hearing that a legend in language learning is having some trouble is so surreal, im feeling that its normal to have some troubles in learning. Thank you for the video!
What is survivorship bias?
@@yomama...isaverynicelady survivorship bias is when we only focus on successful outcomes and ignore the unsuccessful ones. For example, if we study only successful videos on "how I became a big youtuber", we overlook those who failed or struggled. To avoid this bias, its important to consider both succesdul and unsuccessful cases to make better decisions and get a more balanced view of reality.
@@roku-casualenjoyer555 Oh okay. I see. How interestin!
C’mon, he’s still really good! But Steve is getting old :-(
Look at how chess grandmaster DO become weaker as they age. Chances are Steve WOULD have learned it if he was younger!
@@trainerred6582 absolutely, hes super good in this regard. However, its good to know that even pros face diffciulties, so i shouldnt feel that bad when im having my fair share of difficulties.
As a korean who watch your video usually to get linguistical inspiration for learning, It is same logic to East asian towards English. I have been learning English about 15 years since middle school, I'm unwilling to say I can speak English anywhere because I still need a little time to structure sentence in everyday conversation . But I can speak japanese fluently even if I only learn this about 4~5years, and doesn't study japanese grammar deeply. and maybe I can better to learn Chinese than Western people. (Chinese is even hard to KR JP people) But Actually, Native english speaker don't need to learn foreign language, But We, East asian must learn English in global world. What a asymmetrical tragic!
Yes you are absolutely right. I didn’t realise this until I decided to learn Korean. I have been at it for 3 years and it feels like I have nothing to show for the effort. I speak several Western European languages and even though we think it is difficult- in comparison it is not. Learning another western language is like crossing a pond- learning Korean is like crossing the ocean. I truly understand why English is harder for you.
As a english learner ı think ı am luckier than who is a native English speaker and not learner any foreign language. Because we can get more intellectual skills by learning another foreign language.
English is a very forgiving language. You can say something in a strange way and miss out lots of words and to a native it is still understandable. English speakers are used to hearing English spoken in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways by people from all different countries. Stop worrying about being perfect and just speak! We will understand! You might not understand us though, that's a different problem :D
English is a very forgiving language, but definitely not the people who speak it in New York and Manchester!
It's easy to learn English, just because it surrounds you.
As for Korean though... I guess for people who strongly immersed in Korean media it could be somewhat similar, but still not even.
Wow as a Korean subscriber, I am happy to see this video!
It was fun to see a photo of you two in Korea so long ago! I think this is a great video. You're so incredibly accomplished as a polyglot that it is really valuable to see that you have struggled at times.
It is interesting to see you put in such intense bursts of effort only to give up on the language. You truly are in it for the process and the content. I think this experience is not so different from the initial enthusiasm a serious learner of their first foreign language has, only to realise a year and a half later they're not having fun and they haven't reached their goals. The only difference is they give up entirely and you just pick another language 😂
Good to hear that even the almighty Steve Kaufmann encounters the same pitfalls we do!
PS I had no idea LingQ goes so far back in time, from what you're saying it's gone a long way, it makes me appreciate that it's so affordable even for us in "Ceastern Europe" even more
I still enjoy watching your daily 90 day challenge vlog from years ago. It was quite instructive
I've been self learning Korean passively for about 10 years now (1 year self study, 2 years in college, and slow study ever since). The hardest part for me is what you described. Finding kitty materials with a good narrator. I'm still finding my perfect fit but i love hearing other linguist's stories
Steve Kaufmann's effort on learning languages reminds me the tips of the first English course I faced in my childhood, in the 70's. It was called Aprenda Inglês from Bloch Editores which enphasized the need of working on vocabulary, structure and courage to talk... Thank you for keeping the flame burning, Steve!
I love the sound of Korean, and the alphabet (if that's what it's called) is very lovely: I like how the characters 'stack' together. It must make texting very simple and short. However, I am sure the grammar is very difficult given that the need to show respect seems to be built in. I have to say that your voice has a slight trace of what - an Irish accent? My only rule for learning a language is what you said: it has to be enjoyable. I learned German (sort of) by reading the poetry.
Yes, yes it is difficult. I have been learning Korean since 2015 and I feel I still have so much to learn. I am not learning any other language because Korean alone takes up a lot of my time. 😊
고생하십니다 쌤 🙏
I love the fact, that he is learning Korean from Japanese. This just makes sense if you are very fluent in Japanese since both Japanese and Korean share a lot of grammatical concepts.
7:10
im doing the reverse lol learning Japanese in Korean!
@@jakelefkowitz4570cool
LingQ looks so interesting. I may have to check it out
I've lived in Korea and made every effort to use the language for 15 years. I'd had a year of Korean in college before I ever got here. And I was fluent in Japanese before ever studying Korean, so that first year I was like "hey this is easy!" BUT after all that, I still struggle. I look up new words every single day. And when I read a book, I often look up hundreds of new words. Yeah I'm fluent at this point (I guess?) but I still don't feel like I'm really good at Korean. It's an extremely challenging language, but that also makes it fascinating.
what is difficult in Korean?
@@juliannaruffini The vocabulary is endless-and not just words that exist in theory, but words that are actually used frequently. You'll have some head-start on Sino-Korean words if you've studied certain other East Asian languages, but that only goes so far. Glancing at your channel, it appears you've studied Turkish, so you may find Korean grammar similar and relatively easy to pick up. But for many people, the grammar is very challenging too. All that said, I've loved studying Korean and encourage you to give it a try if you haven't already. Just...be ready for a long (but rewarding) journey!
Hi I'm glad to read this! I'm considering moving to Korea to teach. I know some japanese which helps and I'm self studying. I hope it isn't impossible to learn but my biggest challenge is how people speak sooo fast in korean film and tv!! And I feel like the colloquial everyday korean is very different from what I encounter in textbooks. I'm using Integrated Korean and hoping to get through the first book at least by this week, it's not very long! Please do offer more advice on how to improve and study korean, I'd love to hear it!
@@KangNamPelon thxs I learnt several languages also arabic and chinese. The amount of words is challenging in every language. Tonal languages are the most difficult.
@@juliannaruffini Sounds like you've already learned some tough ones! No tones to worry about in Korean, just intonation, and unlike Arabic, you won't have to learn multiple dialects (although the older folks in places like Jeju will be delighted if you do). Best of luck in your studies!
0:31 holy moly moly you were the most gorgeous young man, Mr Kaufmann! And even now you are the fittest and youngest looking 78 year old I have seen! I believe it's due to your healthy lifestyle habits, language learning which keeps the brain active, and positive, energetic and joyful personality. Would you consider doing a video on this please?
Definetely Mr.Kaifmann is 78 years young!
I must be weird. I'm finding Korean really easy and natural. I dunno if it's because I really love BTS or what. I thought Japanese was relatively easy (other than endless Kanji), but I find Korean easier. I can read/write easier and quicker than speaking/listening. But I'm really into reading lyrics, translating. I am divorced, empty nester, 52 and want to travel someday. I really love Japan, Japanese culture and music, second is Korean, third is Spanish because I took 4 years in school.
your method must be golden. could you share with us that are struggling with korean?
Hey, I am army too. I started to learn Korean from Jan 2023. Would you be down helping me practice Korean ? I am super beginner though
@@gratitudegrateful705 국방 외국어 대학 학생이죠? 저도 거기에서 한국말을 공부했어요.
I'd be happy to give what help I can, having gone through the course already (I graduated in 2014.)
im just amazed with that 50k known word count. Im barely working my way up to 10k in Japanese
in a language he's "not very good at" guy is nuts
He mentions the count is not quite meaningful, as it may include 100 verbs with 10 different endings as 1000 separate words, or 1000 nouns with 10 different prepositions/conjunctions as 10000 words.
@thedeemon of course. As an user myself i know its always going to be inflated but still 50k is nuts
because in korean the stem of the words stay the same while its ending changes according to combinations or conjugations and also the fact that he has a chinese base had helped him a lot, but besides those reasons I need to recognize that Steve is indeed a master of languages
look another youtuber trying to learn japanese to move to japan
I love the book you show at around 7 minutes in on Korean. You're learning it from a Japanese book. I'm a native English speaker. I used to be able to speak Japanese. When I lived in Japan, I wanted to study French. So, I have a book very similar to this. Just, instead of Korean, it's French with all the explanations in Japanese. It was a great way to learn another language (though my French is only sufficient to read books on very select topics in mathematics).
I lived in Korea from 2010-2015 and have been living in Japan from 2016. In Japan I passed JLPT N2 in just a couple years of studying and passively learning by just reading everything and overhearing conversations. Unfortunately, Korean was nothing like that. However, after a trip to Seoul, I became nostalgic for the beautiful Korean language and I'm going to give it another go. Because of it's similarities to Japanese and now having a decent grasp of that language, I think that will help me in the way that native Japanese speakers seem to pick up Korean so easily. It's a hard language but I enjoy the challenge too!
Having a love of Korean music (Seotaiji stan for life) and the endless content of variety shows, dramas, and the amazing food, I personally find it hard to not go back to Korean every year or so. I’m going back through Pimsleur for the first couple months of the year just to see how much I remember (not a lot), but it’s hard to find content targeted to certain levels like B1 or B2 that aren’t dry books or boring graded readers.
me too :D My mother tongue is Farsi. My second language is English (grew up in Canada). In school we learned a bit of French so I kind of understand it. I later studied Sanskrit. I find Korean can be similar to Sanskrit, but I find Korean more difficult because it is not 100% phonetic like Sanskrit. I am trying to learn through TTMIK and Duolingo
한국어와 일본어는 상당히 비슷한 맥락의 언어라고 생각했습니다.
일본어와 중국어는 상당히 잘하시는데 한국어는 아직도 어려워 하시는것 같아요~
그냥 제생각인데 일본문화에 더 흥미가 있으신것 같네요
그래도 정말 너무 멋집니다!!
知道Steve先生学习韩文的过程，我就有同感。这个语言实在不简单。我也是韩语爱好者。您已经拥有相当高的日文水平。我相信您能克服这个语言。因为韩文的语法跟日文大致相似。
什麼語言都不簡單
There's something hillarious about a block of Chinese text that just has the name 'Steve' in it
..Uyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world.
If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation.
In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization....
Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ).
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River.
Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language.
There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language....
The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River....
We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia.
We are experts of China and Asia.
Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921.
The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945.
The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949.
Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning....
After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China.
In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China.
Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language.
From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed.
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Potonghua.
China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ...
Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia.
China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet...
China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming.
Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa.
China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming...
What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES?
Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide?
How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "?
How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "?
Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
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Hi Steve! The Lingq app is a very good idea, too bad that the most useful function it has, that of being able to import videos, has the limitation of only 5 in total in the free version. It would be interesting to be able to provide this function without limitations in the free version, so that the app can be used all over the world, since there are a lot of people who cannot pay for the Premium membership. It would be a good gesture on your part, and the App would be massively used by people, even without resources.
Are you going to add Vietnamese one day to LingQ?
Just a quick note. 圖書館(library) is actually not a Chinese loanword (strictly speaking). It is a Japanese-coined Chinese vocabulary (和製漢詞) in the 1800s.
In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization....
Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ).
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River.
Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language.
There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language....
The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River....
We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia.
We are experts of China and Asia.
Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921.
The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945.
The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949.
Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning....
After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China.
In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China.
Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language.
From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed.
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Potonghua.
China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ...
Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia.
China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet...
China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming.
Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa.
China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming...
What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES?
Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide?
How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "?
How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "?
Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
I live in Korea and I still can’t find interesting things to help learn Korean, like you said it feels like work and I get turned off from it.
I learned Korean at DLI in the army for 1.5 years. Which is great, coz if I had tried learning it myself, I would have put it on the back burner many times. Then I was stationed in Korea where I actively sought interaction with the Katusas (who know English). I was lucky enough to work with the real ROK soldiers who didn't know English and usually an hour of time to kill before missions, I had available language partners every day (and nothing better to do). The Army way is probably best for learning Korean (if ur lucky enough to get stationed there).
For some reason I'm reluctant to continue learning German 😬
I default to English for my online learning or for entertainment.
Y las pelis las veo en español ya que el doblaje a dia de hoy es muy bueno.
Auf Deutsch etwas zu gucken oder hören ist mir so anstrengend 😅
I get the feeling that the more languages we try to learn or adquire (whatever they call it) the less we make progress in all of them.
In my recent visit to Germany I noticed I didn't forget any of the German I've learned over the years but I just didn't want to speak it. Every time I could get away with speaking English I would use it 😊
I started studying Korean a year ago and was surprised by how difficult the language to me as someone fluent in both Mandarin and Japanese. While enjoying watching Korean dramas a couple of hours a day, I continue to struggle with grammar points and verb conjugations in my text book studying. Lack of 汉字 also doesn't help and I am sometime struggling to connect a Korean word with its Chinese or Japanese counterpart.
The many grammar forms take a while to get used to but you hit the nail in the head: the lack of Hanzi is in my opinion what makes Korean truly difficult. Korean uses a massive amount of Hanciyu but they dont use characters to show the etymology, so everything looks like it has random meanings with no patterns or roots. To make matters worse, they still add hanzi suffixes to words to create very specific meanings WITHOUT showing the hanzi that makes the meaning clear in the first place, this really makes things unnecessarily difficult in my view.
@@temporal000000000000 I think it's more about phonetics combined with the hard Japanese-like grammar.
As for hanzi, it's true that for us who could speak another Asian language, their lack is a huge disadvantage, I'm not sure it's the same for other people. At least Koreans have learned to put spaces between words.
As for me, I'd prefer Korean be written either in Kanji or using Latin letters, rather than in so-called easy Hangul.
I'm learning Korean and I hope that one day to find my best friend who returned to North Korea over a decade ago. We lost contact and still looking for her and I know that one day I will find her🙏💕
Those of my friends who are good at Korean are those who are super interested in K-pop, and Korean idols 😂😂. They have huge passion for k-pop and so they are interested in the Korean language. To be honest, there are far more Chinese people who are interested in Korean and Japanese than those who are interested in English, but English is a compulsory subject since elementary school so it’s more like people have to learn it because it’s useful worldwide, rather than they are interested or want to take the initiates to learn. But I’m somehow different, I lean more towards English world because it’s like a rich ocean for me to explore, I choose to read English materials when I’m free, and I have little interest to learn other cultures and languages because English is enough for me.
What the fuck is is funny about that?
Hi Steve, when I was a teenager I started to take lessons with a local teacher
but I gave up at the time howerer restarted to learn english since 2022 (with commitment now). Also have the pleasure to know your channel through Gabriel Poliglota and I intend to become fluent till the end of 2024. I also started to learn Italian. Currently I'm learning the vocabulary in italian of topics that interests me and its been joyful. I admire a lot your work with languages and your tips has been useful in I way I could'nt imagine. I reccomend you to all my friends and I hope you achieve more
recognition in your career. Compliments from Brazil.
I really admire this guy. I first learnt about him from a collaboration he did with innerFrench (great video btw) and i was really impressed at how well he spoke French and even more impressed was I when I heard how many languages he's picked up. 😨
It's also funny to hear differences in people's voices depending on what language they're speaking lol
I'm here upon the recommendation of Ed Parson’s channel. New subscriber.
Korean for me was a struggle too....I may get back to it in a few years...I think for me the issue was the alphabet....I could read it with difficulty and whatnot...but at the end of the day it was very hard learning words....
In contrast for Japanese, and this may be a hot take, I could learn words very easily because I focused very early on on learning all common kanji up to N1....so many words became so easy to learn because of kanji...I love kanji so it was no problem dedicating almost 5 hours daily for a couple of years to just learning it. (that and the fact that I was in the romance stages with Japanese at the time lol so I could easily spend even more time after kanji doing other stuff related to the language like vocab or reading/listening)
But for Korean, the same "shortcut" doesn't apply unfortunately :( although I feel by what little I knew from Korean that Korean is to Japanese what Italian is to Spanish. I've been getting more into KDramas so I may get back to learning Korean in the future, who knows...after all, I only ever got curious about Japanese because of anime :D
For me that language would be Vietnamese. I’ve worked pretty hard on it since the beginning of 2014 (along with a few earlier attempts), but it’s still really hard to pronounce correctly despite working with several dozen tutors to correct it. The lack of content I like is another big issue with the language. Listening is also pretty hard because there are a lot of sounds that are hard to make out and the tones are also hard to make out. I’ve tried doing minimal pair exercises, but I’ve had only minimal success. Reading is a little easier, though.
Oh my gosh, this! I feel like I can hear words and tones pretty easily. I checked out an audio learning vietnamese program and I was immediately humbled. There were a couple of words that sounded exactly the same to me. The tone and everything seemed the same. I tried over and over to differentiate the sounds and just gave up. Still am intimidated by Vietnamese and haven't gone back.
Yea its extremely hard for me too even harder than korean and Chinese i think it may be one of the hardest i have ever tried to learn
i can not stop laughing, i am a vietnamese who never been abroad
I started my Korean journey in February this year. I've gone through flashcards(~10-40 new cards per day), for grammar I studied Billy's beginner series and now I'm going through intermediate grammar, watching various fun to educational videos on youtube and slowly working through a webnovel I'm very intrested in. I'd say I'm at an early B1 level now.
That's awesome! Ive started this week and have hangul firmly in my brain now, all im trying to do now is build up some basic vocabulary so when i start watching comprehensive input I'll have something to build from. Do you have any channel recommendations for a beginner that you found helpful
LingQ is the best app 😍
I studied and lived in Japan and now in Korea and Korean is much harder! Japanese grammar and especially pronunciation is very easy and I could have real daily long conversations after six months of learning and never had to use English and always made myself understood. I still love and miss how comfortable Japanese is to speak compared to Korean.
Japanese only has five distinct vowels while Korean has many similar sounding charachters.
My native language is Swedish which also has those vowels (like "å") but even so I confuse the pronunciation of (å) 오 and 어 (a).
The Korean ㅈ and ㅊ also sound similar. ㅈ is not "ji" or "chi" but somewhere in between and ㅊ needs a higher pitch.
When ㅊ and 오 or 어 are combined, it's easy to misunderstand. My taxi to 신촌 went for 신천 instead cause the driver misunderstood my bad pronunciation.
Words like 전국, 천국, 정부, 정보 sound similar, too and it's hard to guess the spelling when one hears Korean while Japanese is easy to spell after hearing it (if using hiragana and not kanji).
Korean is almost like the Danish version of Japanese. While Swedish and Danish are similar, Danish sounds very muffled and I heard even Danish infants learn their own language later than other people in the world!
Korean pronunciation also varies depending on the syllable order. The pronuciation is soften is the charachter is repeated. 공공= kong gong.
The grammar is also slightly harder but I guess German grammar or languages grammatical gender are even harder.
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Object particle:
Japanese: always を
Korean: 을 or 를
Subject particle:
Japanese: always が
Korean: 이 or 가
Topic particle:
Japanese: always は
Koresan: 는 or 은
These can often be omitted so they aren't that much of a problem. But other features are harder:
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Normal polite form:
Korean: -어요 or 아요 (해요)
Then, commonly used honorific level (하세요) and deferential levels (합니다)+ plain + intimate levels.
So five speech levels while Japanese needs just 3, usually.
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Perhaps the Japanese て- form is the exception where there are about 5 options (て, って, いて, いで, んて) while only 2 (어/아) or even 1 ("and"/고) in Korean.
The hardest for me is when features/connectives to a verb varies depending on if the word ends with a vowel or consonant as is so common in Korean.
About the pronunciation: Japanese is virtually always pronounced as it's written while Korean sometimes isn't( 연락= 열락).
One more annoying thing: if I learn "clothes" is 옷 "o", it's hard to understand when it sounds like "osun" 옷은 or 옷이 "oshi" or "osul" 옷을 depending on how it's used.
Korean has so many "soft"/silent ending consonants that are only pronounced when combines with other particles/words.
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I kinda want Korean to be my next language! I've already studied some Japanese, and I believe Korean and Japanese have a lot of grammar in common. I also think the Hangul alphabet looks pretty cool, and I adore BTS, so those are probably my main motivations!
Subjects regarding headwinds or resistance of learning English is useful.
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Greetings from korea 🇰🇷 😊
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
I've been here for almost 4 years still don't speak it
I speak more Japanese 😅😅😅😅
Great efforts by you on language learning..much inspired ❤
Very cool, I've dabbled in bunch of languages - german, russian, chinese and japanese, but I didn't put enough effort to actually learn any of those on an acceptable level. As much fun as it is, to know some german words for jokes, japanese to get the general idea what do characters talk about in an anime show, or recognize some chinese signs, it's quite a struggle to stay consistent and focus on one language. I feel like this linkq page would be really helpful to track progress and pinpoint the gaps
Another thing that makes Korean difficult is that written Korean is often formal with 다 endings.. while spoken Korean typically ends in 요 or 니다. So, if you're reading a lot, you have to offset it with listening so that you don't come off as a dictionary.
Ten years off and on with Korean, here. I am in love with the language and interact with it daily on some level, but have found it incredibly difficult to find interesting comprehensible intermediate content so progress is very, very slow. Been a while since I checked LingQ out. May need to give it another go.
I also think korean is extremely difficult and i don't even know why i literally can't remember the vocabulary. the language doesn't have a lot of very difficult features like tones the writing system is supposed to be easy. and i am very motivated there so so much stuff in korean that is rare in other languages. like handy websites video games movies and music that is so good it even managed to get popular in the west its really interesting that such a small country accomplished so much .compare that to some other languages that i am learning like Albanian i put in way less effort but i understand way more and no offence to Albanians but Albanian tv is just boring .there are no decent RUclipsrs or podcasters speaking the language my main reason for learning it is because i sometimes meet Albanians irl who only speak Albanian.
Steve,
Given what you said in the previous video, what do you think about doing (or adding into LingQ) a million word challenge instead of a ninety day challenge - or, even better, a million words in a hundred days challenge. If you think about it, 10.000 words a day isn’t that much, and it would go a long way to proving what you talked about in the previous video.
Native Mandarin speaker here. I have had no problems with learning Japanese but had tremendous problems learning korean. I think it is due to the connected words and codas in the syllables. It's hard to make out the word boundaries with Korean.
Been trying to learn it for the last month or so. Can't quite get a 'feel' for it. Odd.
我是日本人。在年轻时，我到中国延边留学，主修中文辅修朝鲜文(韩文)。我倒觉得韩文比中文要容易得多。因为韩文和日文是同一语系的语言。中文真不简单。我为学中文费了好长时间的工夫。但是我的口语水平远远不如Steve先生。
@@user-vf7cn3oy8gLinguists do not believe Japanese and Korean are in the same language family. They have very similar grammar, but the vast majority of linguists believe that they are not related at all.
@@user-vf7cn3oy8gVIVA JAPAN. If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation.
In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization....
Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ).
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River.
Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language.
There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language....
The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River....
We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia.
We are experts of China and Asia.
Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921.
The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945.
The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949.
Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning....
After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China.
In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China.
Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language.
From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed.
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Potonghua.
China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ...
Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia.
China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet...
China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming.
Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa.
China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming...
What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES?
Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide?
How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "?
How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "?
Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
@@BobbiasUyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world.
If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation.
In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization....
Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ).
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River.
Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language.
There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language....
The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River....
We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia.
We are experts of China and Asia.
Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921.
The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945.
The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949.
Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning....
After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China.
In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China.
Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language.
From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed.
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Potonghua.
China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ...
Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia.
China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet...
China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming.
Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa.
China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming...
What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES?
Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide?
How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "?
How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "?
Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
카프만 선생님, 건강하고 행복한 하루 되시길 빕니다. ^^
It would be fun to see you get back to the Korean language, do 90 days challenge or something and let us follow your progress.
0:55 This is not the best example of Chinese cultural influence as Korea’s Gyeongbokgung Palace was built in 1395, about eleven years earlier than the Forbidden City (China), which began construction in 1406. When noting similarities between China and other Asian countries, it is often assumed outside of Asia that they are similar due to borrowing from China, but in many cases, that is false. China influenced other cultures, but was also influenced by other cultures as well like Mongolian, Indian, etc.
..Uyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world.
If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation.
In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization....
Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ).
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River.
Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language.
There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language....
The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River....
We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia.
We are experts of China and Asia.
Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921.
The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945.
The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949.
Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning....
After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China.
In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China.
Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language.
From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed.
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Potonghua.
China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ...
Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia.
China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet...
China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming.
Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa.
China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming...
What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES?
Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide?
How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "?
How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "?
Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
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I think it can be challenging if you don't know anything about Turkic languages. My second "native" language (I know very little about it) is Chuvash. Phonetics, grammar, word order are similar. So I fond out that Korean language learning process was and is fun and easy. However, it didn't help with Japanese, because i struggled with Kanji a lot😢😂
My native language is Vietnamese and Korean for me is quite logical and easy, as this is quite subjective depending on person.
Korean is so hard. I've lived here for 20 years but the struggle is REAL...and I wonder if I'll ever be fluent.
didn´t know Steve Kaufman was a Chad in his young days !
I have learnt several languages, including Arabic and Hebrew.
And as a Swede, the hardest one has been Korean, so far.
It's the sentence structure that keeps tripping me up. 😊
Yeah it's all about drive and consistency as you know. I became fairly fluent in 2 years just by having that passion and consistency every day. I would learn 15-20 words every day so I have a very large vocabulary. If you include all those endings and such, it would be what, like 550,000 words lol but in reality those dont count, just the base words do I would think.
Steven eres de verdad el mejor políglota que conozco sigue adelante 🤠✨
Saludos desde bolivia 🇧🇴 hasta Canadá 🇨🇦✨✨
I'm not into other languages besides English, and I don't want to learn another I mean the learning process of any language is beautiful but I just don't want to acquire another one. So I have no idea what languages it could be more difficult or easier than English. 😅😅😅
Hello, Brazilian prestigious video, hug!
Any language is possible, right!? By repetition and making it fun!! 😄
Good video.
It was a nice photo 😊
Having mastered Japanese language, but struggling to learn Korean, is interesting.
Korean is such a beautiful language ^_^ Happy to see you're doing well!^_^ God Bless!
LingQ is amazing
I don’t have a problem learning Mandarin even if it’s another Asian language, but I can’t even HEAR many letters of the Korean alphabet. No matter how many online Korean pronunciation teachers I listen to, it continues to sound like incomprehensible mumbling. I might be better off with a non-Korean teacher of Korean to improve my chances of hearing his “bad” Korean pronunciation.
I'm korean, this language looks so difficult for foreigner even like from English speaking countries
Forward and direct
Hello how are you I admiré you,you are the best .?
I have been going in and out of Mandarin for over 10 years. having many Chinese home stay "daughters" has been fun . After getting a degree in Russian ( not nearly as difficult a language as some people say ) and doing Latin and French very successfully at school.... during that time I started to teach myself German and Portuguese as a hobby, which languages I use on line when needed.
... Briefly... you sort of paralleled how I see language learning--relating the new to the already known in terms of structure, vocab and grammar.---it's allll patterns, which some people grasp more easily than others.
I "see" language learning as using a gigantic linguistic Lego set... swapping some shapes and colours to build up from known>>>new.
Hi! Any specific Russian resources you can share? My initial goal is reading, but of course fun basic to intermediate kids stuff is fun for me to start.
Uyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world.
If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation.
In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization....
Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ).
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River.
Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language.
There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language....
The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River....
We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia.
We are experts of China and Asia.
Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921.
The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945.
The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949.
Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning....
After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China.
In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China.
Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language.
From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed.
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Potonghua.
China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ...
Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia.
China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet...
China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming.
Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa.
China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming...
What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES?
Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide?
How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "?
How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "?
Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
Being a South Korean, it is not difficult to add more languages on top of English.
Talking about Korean, it would be very interesting to see a collaboration with "Victor Talking".
The internet has changed the manner in which anybody can study and acquire language competency
Steve have you ever attempted language tests to measure your skill I mean A1-C2?
No.
@@Thelinguist When I come across a word whose meaning I don't know I check it in online dictionaries like Cambridge but these dictionaries contain more than 1 meaning of the word.
Do I need to learn all the meanings of the word or only that one which fits into the context of the particular sentence which i read ???
Respect for trying to learn Korean. But just because I fear that this video might deter some from learning it, it all, as Steve says, comes down to patience, enjoyment, and motivation.
I've been learning Korean for over 5 years, and it's honestly such an beautiful language with such a fascinating history, culture, and some really lovely people behind it.
If you don't find any interesting in it, that's fine. But if you're interested, try and stick with it. It can be difficult but it won't feel like work. Trust me.
Hopefully the takeaway for viewers is not that Korean is really hard but that even experienced language learners like Steve have difficulty learning languages. But if someone interest in the language/culture, stay motivated and can find interesting content he can make progress.
I've several times tried to learn Korean but always failed. I guess I probably just don't like this language.
I perceive it as a "bad" copy of Japanese, with lots of unpleasant sounds and soulless "pipes" as a letters instead of cool Chinese characters.
@KnightOfEternity13 I'm sorry you had so much difficulty with Korean. It's hardly a copy of Japanese, though. It shares some similar syntax, grammar, and vocabulary. But it's a distinctive language with its own writing system, sounds, vocabulary, etc. So, I'm not sure how you came to that judgement, tbh.
@KnightOfEternity13 Korean also moved away from Hanja (their version of Chinese characters) because it didn't suit Korean as much as Hangul (the alphabet it created). Literacy, which previously had been something only the elite class at the time could achieve, skyrocketed among ordinary people as a result. For me, that's a sign of a forward-thinking culture that values simplicity, solutions when things aren't working, and isn't afraid to move away from tradition when necessary.
Japanese kanji, hiragana, and katana is cool and all, but you could just as easily make an argument that having three writing systems (including one exclusively for foreign words) is pointlessly complicated and redundant. But y'know it's just a difference of opinion and preference. I guess one could make an argument that knowing Kanji helps Japanese learns read Chinese without knowing the language, etc.
@@peter9162 Yes, by "copy" I primarily meant the very similar grammatical structure and then the shared Sino-vocabulary. The fact that most linguists still insist these languages to be unrelated is remarkable, so the word "copy" naturally comes to my mind. Considering the theory that languages can "borrow" not only vocabulary, but also grammar if given enough time, it may be not so far from truth.
As for abolition of characters, I guess many arguments can be made. I personally dislike that it has created many homophones and "artificially" prevents me from using my existing knowledge. Some people even say you should still try to learn Hanja, but that seems difficult when they are not used on a regular basis.
From the other side Hangul still doesn't have the simplicity of Latin which I can read blazingly fast. I also don't find it to be so logical as many proponents argue. It's far from being phonetic having plenty of reading rules, and letters themselves still can change when conjugating a word.
As for literacy, I think it skyrocketed in many countries in the XX century. Some of them did language reforms, while some didn't. Often these reforms had more political reasoning behind them.
Phonetics is a thing I always struggle the most with. Japanese was a pleasant exception from the most East Asian languages, Korean though...not so much. I also tend to perceive languages with a "rich" unknown phonetics as less pleasant for ear. But I guess nothing can be done here.
I get that it's mostly a question of preference, and my perception is greatly shaped by the fact I've learned one similar language before another.
It’s funny, I currently speak 7 languages, two of them are Chinese and Japanese but I can’t seem to get interested in Korean, even though nowadays, with Korean dramas and music being more and more popular, I just can’t feel interested in the language, I don’t know why. 😢
Same. Been trying to learn it for the last 1½ months but I just can't get a 'feel' for it. Strangely the more I learn it the less interested I am in learning it.
Commercialization of culture. When you think of Japan and China you think of rich high culture but with Korea you think of modern dramas and music made solely with mass appeal in mind.
@@carolean4360 yes, it makes it less appealing, at least for me.
Uyghur-Turk language, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian have many very similar grassroots . When I started to learn Korean, Japanese and Mandarin language, I found Japanese and Korean are very easy. But Mandarin language is the hardest in the world.
If America did not kicked out Japanese Empire from ex-Manchu empire in August 1945, Today everyone speaks Japanese in Japanese Empire ( modern North Korea, South Korea, China, Formosa, Vietnam, etc). And Eastern Turkestan Republic is a full independent state of Uyghur-Turk Nation.
In fact in real world Since ancient times till Today there is no Chinese, no Chinese ethnic group, no Chinese race, no Chinese DNA, no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language, no Chinese civilization....
Mandarin language is the language of Manchu-Eastern Turks ( Tabghaq, Tanghut, Far Eastern Yellow Uyghur, Janbaz, Manchu, Kitan, Daghur, Solon, etc ).
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Cantonese language is the language of Cantonese people in the Southern regions of Yangtze River.
Mandarin language and Cantonese language are Two totally separated languages. They are not dialects of fictional Chinese language.
There are over 300 languages spoken by over 300 ethnic groups in China in Far Eastern corner of Asia in between Yellow River and Yangtze River. But there is no Chinese spoken language, no Chinese written language....
The department of propaganda of CCP has fabricated "Chinese civilization " by unlawfully combining the civilizations of Uyghur-Turk Nation in Central Asia, Tibetans on the roof of the world, Manchurians on the North East of Asia, Mongolians in the Southern Siberia, Koreans, Japanese, Astroasians in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Cantonese in the southern regions of Yangtze River....
We are masters of Mandarin language and several languages of Eastern Asia.
We are experts of China and Asia.
Communist Soviet Russians have invented Central Communist Party ( CCP) on Japanese Empire ruled Shanghai in 1921.
The US has kicked Japanese Empire from modern North Korea, South Korea, Manchuria, Southern Mongolia, lands of over 300 ethnic groups in between Yellow River and Yangtze River, Southern regions of Yangtze River, Formosa in August 1945.
The Communist Soviet Russia created the Red Army and they have illegally invaded the territories of over 300 ethnic groups, and China is invented by the Communist Soviet Russia's CCP on 1st October 1949.
Since then Communist Soviet Russia and Communist China together illegally invaded into Vast Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia, Tibet, Southern Mongolia, Manchuria, Yellow Uyghur Gansu, Kazakh Aksay, Koknoor, Guangxi Zhuang Region, Yunnan, Ningxia Hui region, Korean Liaoning....
After China born from CCP on 1st October 1949, there is no United language for newly invented Communist China.
In October 1954, Communist China has adopted Mandarin Language, Uyghur language, Tibet language, Mongolian language and Zhuang language as the official language of Communist China.
Mao Zedong is from xiang ethnic group and he has learned Mandarin language.
From 1966-1977, China has tried to exterminate all over 300 languages , cultures and tried to produce " fictional Chinese civilization, Chinese language, Chinese history....". But failed.
Mandarin language is not Fictional Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Han-Chinese language.
Mandarin language is not Potonghua.
China is the Global Disinformation Superpower, Deception Superpower, Corruption Superpower, Mass Murder Superpower, Anti-Transparency Superpower, Anti-Accountability Superpower, Anti-Civilization Superpower, Anti-Human Superpower ...
Right now China's Uyghur Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Eastern Turkestan in Central Asia.
China's Tibetan Genocide is going on in war criminal China's army illegally invaded Tibet...
China's Uyghur Organ Harvesting industry is booming.
Chinese-Arab Axis has slaughtered millions of innocent, defenceless and healthy Uyghur children, Uyghur women and Uyghur men to produce UYGHUR HALAL ORGANS for millions of disabled Arabs in Middle East and North Africa.
China's Uyghur Halal Organ Trading industry is booming...
What is HUMAN FLESH CAPSULES?
Why do Chinese eat Human Flesh Capsules in China and worldwide?
How is China's Uyghur Halal Organs "Made in China "?
How is China's Human Flesh Capsules "Made in China "?
Why did China unlawfully totally cut off all Uyghurs from the rest of the world by total ban travel for all Uyghurs?
i saw one thing online where they ranked korean as the number one objectively hardest language for native english speakers
even harder than arabic
What was the reason they gave for claiming it was objectively the most difficult to learn? Genuinely interested.
@@peter9162 they measured various languages based on how similar they were to english in various categories and gave them more points if they were more different
the only language that came out difficult than korean is ubykh (which is obscure other than for the amount of the sounds it has and is extinct anyways)
I think Arabic is harder because they don't write vowels, the grammar is very irregular (broken plurals, verbal nouns, etc.) and there are over 30 dialects each having its own grammar and vocabulary
I found Korean rather uncomplicated and it's easy to pronounce, and the sentence structure is easy to get used to. The most difficult part of Korean is probably the vast amount of vocabulary, with subtle differences between synonyms. However this probably is unimportant for the average learner who only needs 3000-5000 words to communicate and function well in the language.
Ive studied 11 languages, but only semi-fluent in 4. Of the languages that I quit, most were because of boredom or other circumstances, but not because the language was difficult. Korean was the only exception. I started studying korean in february for my trip to korea next week. I gave up after 6 weeks because it was taking 15-30 seconds to decipher the Hangul for each korean word. I currently study 100+ vocab words per day in each of tagalog, cebuano, spanish and german. After 6 weeks of korean, i probably knew less than 50 words.
That said, I think the issue is solely related to my learning style, and the Hangul definitely does not match my learning style.
Honestly if u still wanna do it then my best advice is to not give up (yeah no shit lol).
My point is simply that i had the exact same issue as u. It was taking me for ever to figure out what a single hangul sounded like and it was very strenuous. And it did get very frustrating at times cuz its like "its essentially an alphabet, why can i still not remember parts of it more easily?".
But eventually it started to get easier and easier. So i know my advice is kinda "useless" lol and when it comes to learning techniques, im sure theres nothing i can tell u thats better than what steve can tell u lol.
What i did was super simplistic, just look at it, try to decipher/figure it out, rinse and repeat. But hey, at some point it started to pay off. So if u ever wanna get back into it, thats my super duper expert advice😂😂😂
The weird thing about Hangul vs. Latin (e.g. for writing English) is that given enough time and knowing the exceptions, you can pronounce almost any phrase w/o knowing what it means; whereas in Chinese (pretend it's 1 thing for now), you may easily see what a logographic entity likely means while failing to spot the pronunciation hints and/or context-based irregularities (if existent) and/or using a wrong tone. I'll usually read faster in Mandarin as long as I instantly recognize the character (usually one syllable).
Even transliteration makes more sense to me in Chinese while doing so, therefore I guess I'll not be fluent in comprehending Korean for at least many more years to come. Similar with Japanese, as I actually still haven't learnt most Kana (barely know あ,です & ちゃん).
(Literally suck so bad, I'm doing better in Duolingo's Klingon than its Korean course. 😂)
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Hey people should i watch videos and movies with target language subtitles or without,when im in the b1 or b1+ levels.
If you want to learn new vocabulary, with subtitles. If you want to practice word recognition and really improve your listening, without.
Too bad lingq doesn't have Thai which I'm surprised. Back then, Thailand used or borrowed a lot of English stories to teach young kids, like the aesop's tales and maani series. I havent tried korean but I studied Japanese and I feel Thai is harder than Japanese because of the tone rules and then you have to figure out what word or meaning it is according to the tones, making reading incredibly slow and also there is also a modern font they use that looks like a different language.
Same here! Korean... tough cookie. Yet fascinating :D
I wish we could import ebooks on mobile 😢
I've just started learning korean so i can converse with koreans when i visit my friends there but im finding learning Hangul difficult, some if the letters i know but others are hard, does anyone have any tips to learning Hangul so it sticks
Go billy Korean has a great 90 minute video on learning hangul that I recommend!
If you can steve, put some ads on your app and make it free , this way will suits a lot of people who wants to learn and not capable to pay by credit card 💳
Indeed, Korean is on a whole different level than even languages that have the same basic structure, such as Japanese. First the sound system. Compared with the 130 or so different "syllable" sound of Japanese, Korean apparently has some 3000+ different syllables. Then the writing: Kanji makes it easy to separate the root of words, whereas the changes that occur within syllables of the Korean alphabet means it takes quite a while to be able to tell what part of a whole string of letters are the basic word, declensions, sometimes even whether the last syllable is a subject, object or topic marker or even a so-called "euphonic" marker, like after a person's name, for example. And third, while both Korean and Japanese do not decline their verbs, Korean has some 900 or so verb "endings" (which are sometimes places not after, but before the verb. If Steve has found Korean difficult, I can't imagine someone who did not.
Interesting, I though Japanese was harder because the grammar is very close to Korean but you have to memorize so many Kanji, as opposed to hangeul that can be learnt in a day. I haven't tried learning Japanese though.
@@thedeemon You mentioned ''memorizing'' kanji, but that's the mistake many people make. Just find stories with both a translation (audio too, if possible) and "okurigana" that show you how to pronounce each new kanji you encounter in the text. After seeing the same kanji a few times, you'll learn the most frequent kanji, know how each is pronounced in a given context, with no more effort that if you were learning any alphabet-based language.
@@aliceberethart Absolutely correct. The Korean wave started with the release of the k-drama "Winter Sonata (dubbed in Japanese and broadcast on TV as Fuyu no sonata, which made such a splash in Japan that tourists started visiting South Korea as if they were going on a pilgrimage, visiting spots that had appeared in the drama. Within the year, the wave extended to China and then to other Asian countries, and finally to the rest of the world.
@@thedeemon While it's true that the hangul alphabet can be learned in a few hours, it takes quite a lot longer to achieve any degree of fluency reading it. On top of that, even after you can read more or less fluently, 1. you won't understand what you are reading, and 2. you won't even be able to pronounce correctly because many letters are pronounced differently depending on their position within words, or what letter precede or follow certain consonants, etc. This means that you won't even be able to correlate what you "read" and what you "hear" when watching videos, for instance, so it will take much longer than say, Japanese, for "comprehensible input" to develop fluency.
@@ytsangatsu Nah, it's not that hard as you paint it here. Of course it takes some time to get used to, but not long. After some days / weeks one can read (pronounce) any word in Korean (without knowing the meaning of course), in this time one would typically learn
Which level do you have to reach before you say I have learnt it or speak? Which level do you have in each of your 20 languages?
Hello! First of all, thanks for the video!
The lingq app is great and helps a lot of people, but please don't turn ads into propaganda.
hello steve , i really apreciate watching your videos about learning languages perhaps if you have avaliability could you answer my question , if you could give me as a general efficient learn daily schedule with so 2 hours of effort per day how would you manage your time with a language generally not considering personal preferences or etc , thank you
I'm finding a Trio Dictionary of Korean-Japanese-Chinese-English
Bonjour. Merci de ce témoignage.
Is learning languages a full time job ? I am studying programming as well, dont know if i willl be able to do it by sneaking some time learning it daily
You can learn a language with only 1 hour a day of studying. I think for 99% of the people, language learning is not a full time job. It will just take a lot more years than it would, when you study like 8 hours a day.
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