Comments on: What language do most people study: Korean, Japanese, or Mandarin Chinese?

By: Margarete

Margarete — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

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!

By: Sophia M

Sophia M — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

Mandarin Chinese

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

or none of those!

By: ♥♥

♥♥ — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

mandarin

By: Asche

Asche — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

I study japanese, mandarin, and french (I know not asian) just to get some basics down. I also had learned Latin at one point.

By: dart

dart — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

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!

By: Aimee

Aimee — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

Mandarin Chinese..
It is the most spoken language in the world

By: Needinghelp1234

Needinghelp1234 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

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. ;]

By: ~~Krnxbabixoxo~~

~*~Krnxbabixoxo~*~ — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

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

By: 和樹

和樹 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:18:40 +0000

I would say Japanese.