I'm a 15 year old Albanian boy and I'm interested in learning an Asian language. I've always been intrigued by the characters of each of the languages and the culture of the countries. What do most people study and what would you recommend for me?
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November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Well, I have absolutely no experience with Korean, but I can offer my thoughts on Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, since I am a second-year student in both.
Japanese has two alphabets particular to it’s language, plus one special set of "Chinese characters." I think that this is a fairly simple language to understand because of the alphabet, and the fact that it has "sentence markers (particles)," but unfortunately the language is a bit of a tongue-twister.
As for Mandarin Chinese, this is a very fun language to learn, as well. I myself don’t get very tongue-tied with it, but the characters are a little bit difficult sometimes, and I definitely think you need a patient and kind teacher.
Regarding what language most people study… I honestly couldn’t tell you. I can, however, tell you that Mandarin Chinese is the most widely-spoken language in the world (and it’s very good to know in Chinatown!), but Japanese is a very fun language, as well.
Just some insight into the two languages, I suppose. I’m sorry that I can’t be of more help. Good luck to you, though!
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Mandarin Chinese
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
or none of those!
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
mandarin
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I study japanese, mandarin, and french (I know not asian) just to get some basics down. I also had learned Latin at one point.
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Mandarin is supposed to be the next big language of need, especially if you already know English, and have another language. You could be very marketable in many businesses!
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Mandarin Chinese..
It is the most spoken language in the world
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Japanese! It’s so beautiful. The people are very nice and its a beautiful place to visit! It’s not as hard as Mandarin because it has no tone marks or anything and its not that hard.. There’s a lot of short cuts.. I also find it the easiest in pronouncing words as well and its one of the places with the best economies in the world. Business is very important there.
PLUS, their music is AWESOME… Listen to Gackt.. IF you like rock or pop. ;]
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I would totally recomend Korean, Japanese and then Mandarin Chinese.
Why?
1- Korean has simplier letters (trust me) it took me atleast 2 weeks to know all the letters and i taught my friend who is 100% Cubian (best friend) how to write and speak the letters in Hangul (korean language) and she is very good too, better than me! :]
2- Japanese has some korean in it which makes it atleast 26% easier to learn Japanese.
3- Then you should take Mandarin Chinese which Japanese and korean took some of Chinese’s letter for their own langauge. This makes a 65% easier for you when you learn Mandarin Chinese.
I hope you take my advice! ;D
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I would say Japanese.
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Chinese…
November 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Chinese Mandarin has the largest number of speakers in the world. I myself is one of them. When people think of learning an Asian language, they often choose one from Mandarin, Korean and japanese. In my opinion, Mandarin is the most difficult among the three. It has tones and the most complicated characters which is difficult for someone from a totally different language system. When I talk to my friends here in the US as well as those from other western countries, most of them were learning Japanese. I think this is because the country’s relationship with western countries and its own economic thrive.
Anyway, I think the best way for you to make a dicision is to know something about these three languages first and try to study them for a some time and then pick up the one you like the most.
Hope you can grasp an Asian language soon. Good Luck!!!