Quote benkaiser eventhough korea is just a hop away across the yellow sea, the korean language, in terms of pronounciation of chinese words, are very similar to those of southern chinese dialects like fujianese, chaozhou, hakka and cantonese instead of mandarin.
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November 09, AM. Okay, here goes. Difficulty there. So, there are some of these things that make it difficult. Things like these, very difficult.
I think you almost have to infer it from context. So to go from non-existent to existent, that was challenging to listen to. So that was Korean, hopefully that was an interesting clip. We will continue with our analysis of Japanese.
So continuing on in Japanese. Because you know when a presenter is announcing something, is pre-empting another [the next] segment of the show, they just want to get the introduction speech over that prefaces that next segment. Also, the narrator there was also fairly clear when speaking as well. But if you know these in advance, they should be okay. Moving on. So her Mandarin is a little bit easier to understand, but hers is actually fairly standard. Names, in particular in Chinese, are very hard to reverse.
No joke, I overheard a conversation between my Chinese friend and his mother.. We thought that they were fighting and getting into an argument about something.. Come time to ask him what the hell that was all about, all he had said to his mother was that he wouldn't be home too late, and that he loves her..
I think Chinese sounds like a can being thrown to the stairs. Koreans and Japanese sound hell a lot better than that dirty language. It really depends on who is saying it, and the tone of voice. Take Japanese, for example, the voice of a gentle character sounds beautiful, while the voice of an obnoxious character sounds ugly, even if it is the same language.
The only objective way to compare them would be to have the same person say the same thing in the same manner for each language. Other than that Hakka , Teochew , Shanghainese and more. Cantonese are just one of the dialects so are Mandarin. Due to various language in China , they choose Mandarin as their official language instead, but some can speak their native languages. Mandarin - Tien Chai. Eh Japanese sounds decent, but Cantonese sounds awful Russian is the best sounding language though.
I think that all the language sounds cool if a person with a really cool voice and tone speaks the language. But in my opinon I dont really like chinese when its spoken by people who just keeps on babbling and whos really loud. I, mostly heard the japanese language from animes so i cant really tell if its cool but i know one thing for sure that most of the girls in japan tries to make their voice cute or somthing and it sounds realy annoying.
Koreans are just normal to me since its my second language. For me, Korean sounds the best. It has enough vowels to let it sound smooth and when I was in Korea for two months, I literally just sat in cafes alone to listen to their language. It was that good! It is like those romance languages but, an asian one haha! Japanese was one of my favorite languages before I heard Korean.. I came to realize that the language was too light and there was really no "fun" in the language But it still is one of the most beautiful languages!
Mandarin was really weird to me at first but when I got used to it, it sounded alright with all the rolls in sentences I mean I tried liking it.. I tried and tried and tried but it is just.. I agree that Cantonese doesn't sound as romantic or smooth as other languages, but for some reason I love listening to guys speak Cantonese.
I think they sound genuine? Or manly? I can't quite put my finger on it.. I am a native Japanese and I think Korean and Japanese sound somehow similar. Even for me although rarely it occurs when some Korean speaks bit far from me, I must focus on him to be sure if he is some Japanese from our north land or Korean. To me, Chinese has a very different sound, due to its tones. It has more cantonese type of consonants but more close to japanese grammar, and vowels somewhere in between the two.
Though I speak cantonese natively, I like the sounding of Japanese, but I found the grammar too complicated and its annoying to use a long combination of sounds to say one thing, which I can say the same thing in cantonese with just 2 sounds. It's not surprising that Korean and Japanese language are very similar due to the fact that they both stemmed from an ancient altaic language that is in no way related to China's ancient language except for some loan words.
Japanese language evolved over time with loan words from China and Korea, the grammar from old Korea, and a mixture of polynesian words to create something different and unique. As for what I like.. Japanese is okay, but I think most english speakers are in love with them because they are obsessed with anime which is not a good representation of how they actually speak.
A pleasing sounding language, simple but oddly feminine.. Ex: Meree Kooreesoomasoo! Makes me do a double take sometimes. Korean sounds oddly mountaineous with a wide variety of tones. However, they do tend to sound sharp, earthy and pissed off, like German. But that's not all the time though. When they speak a little more quietly and slowly it sounds very sophisticated and romantic. It's easier to pick up a universal emotional quality which is harder to listen for in C or J.
Chinese doesn't sound bad, just different. They're one of the few languages in the world that uses a tonal language which is pretty awesome and can sound sing song sometimes. Like Korean, I feel it sometimes sounds sharp and angry, but I'm sure it doesn't mean they're angry or bad mannered. Only ignorant people will classify someone as 'no manners' just by listening to their language. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with either Mandarin or Cantonese so I won't make any solid assumptions.
In conclusion, a language is a language, they're all different and unique, not just asian languages.
There's a lot of ignorance in this thread. First of all, what gives anyone the right to say which language is "better" only by its sounds?
Sure, they are all your VALUABLE opinions, but if anyone cared to value their thoughts so much, then they would have at least thought twice before they typed in anything useful. I think how a language sounds depends on a mixture of your cultural background and how you experienced the language in your life.
A Cantonese speaker might as well call English an ugly, displeasing language if they heard it the first time, and came across a rudely loud English tourist.
Same thing with kids in America. They usually come across a group of Asians speaking loudly for the first time, got annoyed by how strange and different it sounds, matched it with how they seemed to behave so rudely when really it's just their cultural tendency , and called the language ugly and displeasing.
And on a final note, the only horrible sounding language is one that's delivered with hate and malice ;. Obviously most people like asian languages that sound closer to english and european languages, which is why Japanese and korean are liked most by westerners. I can easily distinguish spoken Japanese from other Asian languages thanks to years of watching anime and listing to Jpop.
I can sort of tell Korean apart from any form of Chinese but I'm completely lost when it comes to telling Mandarin and Cantonese apart. I'm sure if I gained more experience with those three languages I could easily distinguish them from each other.
The only things you have to do is watch their sexual attitude. Korean might has crazy sexual habit just called "Prostitute animal Korean". Watch your ass! Korean loves almost all range of sex and age, even if not only you are elementary school students but you are upper eighty.
Just i got a sense. Animal prostitution stands for Korean horrible culture about prostitution as if prostitute animal Korean. I think all these languages sound cool to me. Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese. The most annoying languages to me are 1. Turkish, 2. Arabic, 3.
Little Yaoi Jap boy care to explain what those numbers mean? You little "Wa" dwarfs should thank the Koreans for teaching you old Korean which you call Japanese.
Although you learn to speak old Korean shame you dwarfs still cna't come up with your own writing system still writing with Chinese characters. I am typical American white male and I think Cantonese sounds very similar to Vietnamese, Korean language sounds like German, and Japanese sounds sort of like indigenous language from Philippines. Korean sounds pleasing, Japanese and Mandarin can be tolerable, but I can't stand to Cantonese and Vietnamese.
As a native Cantonese speaker I do concede that Cantonese is one of the harsher sounding dialects out there, though I still have to say that Korean and Beijing-accented Mandarin take the cake for the "I'm not arguing, I'm communicating" statement. A point I'd like to make about Vietnamese is that it seems to particularly grate on Cantonese ears mainly because it sounds like a drunk, whining Cantonese speaker.
Friend said that's the sound of "Southern" Vietnamese though. I'm Japanese but I think Korean sounds the most pleasing. Polyglot learning describes learning several languages at the same time. Similar languages or similar words can be learned much easier when studying them together as pairs. I tried this strategy with the words below and it works incredibly well!
Reading Time: 5 minutes. Reading Time: 7 minutes. Head to: lindagoeseast. Although a looser connection ie. That is soo cool, I have always been trying to search the similarities between the two languages.
I first studied korean and now I am studying chinese. Probably Korean one sounds similar as well? Even though they were officially in and off Imperial China many times during the history, both were the models of vassal states of Imperial China until the modern era started when the Europeans came along. Korea was the best model actually by having copied everything Han Chinese Confucius culture, family values, philosophies, languages, national dresses, architecture, all technologies, government bureaucracy…anything they could grasp into Korea with no or a little localisation.
Japan, in turn, copied some of directly from China, but mostly through by copying Korea. That perhaps explains a bit about linguistic links amongst the three, with Korea serving as the 1-way-bridge of China to Japan historically.
For that matter, the most recent 3 or 4 generations we are witnessing were the only time in the entire history when Japan is a more advanced society than China. An analogy: if Imperial China were Germany, then Korea would be like a city in Denmark, and Vietnam would be like a city of Poland next to the German border. BTW, there is a famous Chinese joke about the recent invention of Hangul. But this guy was an alcoholic and always drunk during the classes by keep writing Hanzi characters all like small round circles… there you have Hangul.
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