I chose to study Japanese because I enjoy learning new languages and I had always wanted to learn Japanese. I've also been told that Korean and Japanese are very similar in grammar structure which I've been able to learn first-hand in the first four weeks. For example, the word for bag (かばん) is almost the same to the Korean word for bag and sentence structure (at least for simple sentences) is also almost the same. Also as a computer science major, I rarely get to take interesting class and I'm glad that I was able to take Japanese!
こんにちは、りつめいかん大学のかじわらかいです。かんこくご、にほんごはそっくりなのはしっていましたが、どっちのことばがむずかしいですか？あとわたしもかんこくごをならいたいです。
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I always thought it was cool that name in Japanese (なまえ) sounds almost like "name" in English.The only other language I sorta know is French and it's totally different from Japanese lol. じゃあまたらいしゅう！
ReplyDeleteIt definitely makes sense that Japan and Korean would have some interesting overlaps but sometimes I even see overlap with my other language, Spanish, which is kind of surprising! The most obvious one is "pan" or パン (which, you can tell by the Katakana, is actually a borrowed word from the Portuguese, which makes sense why it sounds like Spanish). But in terms of pronunciation, there are a lot os sounds that overlap between the two languages, a prominent example being how 'v's are pronounced like 'b's in both languages. (I actually met a few linguists this semester that gave me their scholarly proof that there are proven linguistic similarities!) じゃまたあした！
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ReplyDeleteI also noticed the similarities between Sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean word pronunciation and found it to be really interesting. Some other similar sounding words with same meaning that I can think of are:
전부 - ぜんぶ
요리 - りょうり
도시 - とし
약속 - やくそく
I'm sure there are a lot more that we'll learn in the future! じゃまたあした！
I also heard before that Korean and Japanese share similar grammar structures. I've never learned 韓国語, but I may learn it someday!
ReplyDeleteI love how you decided to take Japanese as a kind of fun course. It's not the easiest subject in the school! It's also great that you're seeing the similarities between your native language and Japanese. There will be many more opportunities for that. Best of luck!
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