I got together with two high school friends today. We had played handball and did hard trainings everyday.
They are fans of Korean actors so they went to watch the Korean movie. The huge boom in Korea is happening among Japanese women. (Especially women in middle life.) I'm not interested in those at all so I joined them after they watched the movie.
One of them had lived in Korea for a while so she can speak Korean. It's often said that Korean is similar Japanese very much so it's easy to learn Korean for Japanese. Especially Korean has a similar word order to Japanese. Japanese word order is much different from English.
For example...
"I went to the park with my friend this morning.
"Japanese word order is
"This morning with my friend to the park went." (Japanese usually omit the subject.)
It's MUCH different, isn't it?
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while I'm not sure about the similarities between Japanese and Korean, I do see some similarities between Korean and Mandarin. I heard that French is one of the hardest languages to learn.
I have studied French a little at University. It was difficult for me. But I don't think it's hard so much for English speakers.
It seems that East European languages are hard, I don't know well though. For example Polish...
Can you speak Mandarin? In terms of pronunciation, I have heard that Chinese is hardest.
heh.. i'm a chinese who can't read nor write chinese. i can speak and understand 4 or 5 dialects though.
Oh, you are a Chinese.
The official language of Malaysia is Malay, isn't it?
I wonder if most Malaysian can speak English like Singapore.
hmm... speak English like Singaporeans? We're practically neighbours... and to a certain extend our English is about the same. There are those who speak in Chinese accent, some British accent and some American accent while some of us just speak without accent. Not all Singaporeans speak proper English... as to not all Malaysians speak proper English.
Yes, the official language is Malay. Do you speak Malay? Over here, the minority races have 3 languages to master. For the Indians and Chinese, they have Malay, English and their mother tongue.
Hmm... I didn't meant about accent. In Japan, rate of people who can speak English is very low. I've heard that most people can speak English in Singapore. So I wondered most Malaysian also could speak English.
3 languages? Multilingual. Great!! I want to be a bilingual in the future!! Japanese and English.
that's because english is singapore's national language, different from malaysia being a moslem country. eventhough, malay is the national language, people tend to speak english more... or at least in their own mother tongue.
I see.
Multilingual countries are interesting for me.
As for language, Japan was very closed.
English word order is：
"I went to the park with my friend this morning."
Japanese word order is：
"This morning with my friend to the park went."
Thats exactly why its so hard for me to learn Japanese. I feel like i'm talking backwards! Unless I actually live in Japan, I am unsure if I can go farther than JLPT Level 2 (http://www.jlptstudy.com). I'm taking the JLPT Level 1 test this December, but I don't know if I will pass with a decent grade. I mean, i know i will pass from the practice tests I have taken, but my score won't be above 90%. Also, my Wife and I are so busy getting with getting her integrated into the U.S. and also living our lives as full as possible.
But, i will keep trying. がんばります！
That's exactly why it's so hard for me to learn English! haha!
Yes, JLPT will come soon. がんばって!
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