07 Dec 2015, 11:19 pm
08 Dec 2015, 7:01 am
Drawyer wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Among European languages English is one extreme- word order is important. And Latin is the opposite- word order doesnt matter-but the word changes so you know what the word is doing in the sentence. In Latin the noun changes if its the object or if its the subject. Am not a linguist-there are other things.
But the point was that even though Korean has no kinship to Latin they have similiar structures. So a Korean can take to it quite easily.
And what the guy said made sense to me. So its probably true.
But that is interesting that you are aware of at least some similarities between Korean and Japanese with "particles".
I know what an "article" is ( is, and, the, but). But I am not sure what an "particle" is. Lol!
Yeah, I believed what you said in the first place. Latin should be easiest language for Korean to learn. But the point was that even though Korean has no kinship to Latin they have similiar structures. So a Korean can take to it quite easily.
And what the guy said made sense to me. So its probably true.
But that is interesting that you are aware of at least some similarities between Korean and Japanese with "particles".
I know what an "article" is ( is, and, the, but). But I am not sure what an "particle" is. Lol!
As for "particles" you can think them as any parts of speech, I'll give some instances, as my keyboard doesn't support Japanese yet, I have to copy from the web.
Japanese "が" (ga) : Korean "가" (ga) -- indicate the subject of a sentence
Japanese "へ" (e) : Korean "에" (e) -- indicate movement towards something
Word order is generally the same.
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As Korean, Japanese are rooted from Chinese, they have a lot in common..
Korean and Japanese have similar grammar and a lot of similar words borrowed from Chinese. This makes learning one language easier if you've already learned the other one. As for me, I learned Japanese in school and university, so it's made learning Korean (which I'm doing now) a LOT easier. Like those sentences that Drawyer gave above: having the Japanese one there makes it a lot easier to understand the Korean one for me, because grammatically they match up almost perfectly.
One of the hardest things for English speakers to learn about in either language is the difference between the topic and subject particles: -는 and -가 in Korean, and -は and -が in Japanese. I had to spend years trying to understand how to use them in Japanese. It was such a headache! But at least it made learning them in Korean later an awful lot easier.
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Back to English, though. Apparently there's a similar kind of difficulty for people learning English, when trying to learn the difference between "a" (indefinite article) and "the" (definite article). English speakers can use them instinctively, but I've heard that for learners of English it can be a headache trying to use them properly.
Makes me wonder what other kinds of similar situations exist for other languages.
08 Dec 2015, 7:02 am
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