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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5008 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 33 of 35 06 July 2011 at 9:35pm | IP Logged |
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I'm curious what makes Korean so difficult. Is it the distance between it and the Indo-European languages? Are there a high amount of irregularities in the paradigms? Is it the sound system? A particular aspect of the grammar (I've read verbs are particularly tricky)? Surely it's some mix of these factors, but which predominates?
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| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5260 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 34 of 35 07 July 2011 at 7:48am | IP Logged |
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Well ScottScheule, for a native English speaker, the pronunciation is very challenging,
the grammar is very different and quite complex(each verb can be conjugated hundreds of ways), and the vocabulary is also difficult. The writing system is actually the easiest part of learning Korean. However, if you really want to obtain a deep understanding of Korean you should probably learn Hanja, which are the Chinese characters. Korean is similar to Japanese but is more complex grammatically, lexically, and phonetically. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5008 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 35 of 35 07 July 2011 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks Po-Ru.
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