Attitude toward caucasian men with non-caucasian women

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You might be right; I don't know Korean. But I did read that it's a tonal language. Which I think means the same written character can be pronounced in multiple tones, where each tone means a different thing.

It's like a therapist saying "aww" when you talk about being emotionally abused by your parents. It could mean many different things: they're mocking you, they saying emotional abuse is cute, they're asking you for more information, etc. But regardless of what their tone means, it's on YOU to figure it out. And they'll never tell you if you ask what it means, because you're expected to JUST KNOW. But while in therapy you can always err on the side of guardedness, in real-life spoken tonal languages, there's no "default" tone.

Chinese textbooks for foreigners use arrows written above the characters to show tones: there's "rising", "falling", "flat", and maybe more. But Chinese texts for natives have no such arrows. I'm not sure how Korean textbooks handle tones.

Tone in this case isn't like 'tone of speech', it has to do with how pitch is used. The same combination of constants and vowels where the vowel has the pitch modified has a different meaning.

Then again, it's probably no different the letter A in English being pronounced in multiple ways, depending on where it stands in the word and what letters surround it. Consider: "hat", "hate", "car", and "care".

And don't get me started on "ghoti" being pounced "fish": GH as in "enough", O as in "women", and TI and in "nation".

Arabic isn't much harder than Hebrew, which I know a little bit of. Once you memorize the syllables each consonant can stand for, you can read its text. Although I like the aesthetic beauty of Hebrew characters better, especially the traditional fonts.

You want a really hard language? Try Chinese!
(And Korean. And Thai.) Not only do you gotta memorize tens of thousands of characters, it's also TONAL. That is, the TONE you pronounce each character in changes its meaning. And it's no secret that one of aspies' biggest difficulties is moderating their tone of voice.

Japanese isn't tonal, but it has elements analogous to accented syllables in European languages. Which is easier for aspies to control.

i was told by a language teacher that american english was dead-on easiest to learn initially but the hardest to master. IOW it has very low cognitive barriers to foreigners upon entry, but once in it a ways it becomes sort of a quagmire.

Foreigners generally want to learn American followed by British English (in that order) from a native speaker.