Differences Between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Writing

Have you ever looked at Chinese, Japanese, or Korean but could never tell the difference? In this video we will cover that and a bit on how each language originated.

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[ultimatekusuma]

Korean letters are surprisingly REALLY EASY to learn. I learned how to read Hangul in not even 24 hours. And of course I still need to practice on reading it fast and learn it's vocabulary

[diti.]

I agree, Korean Hangeul is fairly easy to learn and read

[lalaribbon]

What I noticed (Letters)
Korea: Circles
Japan: Curves
Chinese: Lines and Edges

[tpyxvtz]

What I think of the three writing system
Chinese: Looks traditional and majestic
Japanese: Looks pretty and cute
Korean: Simple to learn

[MegaNoGusta]

Chinese is definitely the hardest to learn. Korean is the easiest though

[Bringmhop]

me to Chinese: Hahahahaha I'm sorry, but no.
me to Japanese: Nice try. But still no.
me to Korean: 안녕

[MobbinMic]

I study all 3 and when people ask which is the hardest, it really depends on the category and what what you excell/struggle with the most. Chinese has a hard writing system and it can get frustrating from time to time not having an alphabet to fall back on. The tones also take some time to get used to, mostly the listening aspect, but it's not as hard as people claim. However, Chinese grammer is the most similar to english and there's also no verb conjugations, which is such a relief. Also, their words tend to be shorter than the other two. Japanese is definitely the easiest in pronunciation, but the grammar takes some getting used to and their words will sometimes feel long. Also, although they use less characters as well as have alphabets to fall back on, reading Japanese characters and knowing how to pronounce them is definitely harder than Chinese. I would also say that Japanese counter words are the most difficult of the 3. Lastly, Korean of course has the easiest alphabet as they've recently basically stopped using Chinese characters in the last decade or 2. Korean pronunciation can be a little weird at times but it's not that hard as long as you know Hangeul. Korean grammer and honorifics is even more complicated to get used to than Japanese, though you'll have more time since you don't have to practice Chinese characters. So basically, Chinese is a steep climb at the beginning that eventually becomes a slide down with enough effort, Japanese is a nice short walk in the park at first but soon becomes a steady climb almost the whole rest of the way up, and Korean like a steady climb that comes with a helpful aid kit(Hangeul) around the start helps throughout your journey 😉

[Shrew-O]

Chinese: Pretty
Japanese: Pretty
Korean: Pretty
-They all look so pretty.. I wanna learn all of them!! But top priority right now is Japanese!!

[hmm]

When you learn korean writing system: easiest system ever
When you learn korean grammar system: *wtf*

[YummYakitori]

Hiragana and Katakana was developed based on Chinese characters too

[KaijuRamen]

My aunt was Korean and she tried very hard to teach some of us some Korean...ultimately the only things I learned from her were how to use chopsticks and making kimchi

[haylz]

When I tried to learn Japanese many years ago I was stuck with having yo translate everything because I couldn't read kanji (hiragana, katakana was easy). Stopped learning because I got lazy and eventually started learning Korean. I learnt 한글 ridiculously quick. It is easy to read and write

[procrasTINAtionpanda]

I knew how to identify the characters already bc I watch too much anime, kdrama, and hkdrama 😂 unfortunately I don't speak any of them except for the random words I pick up

[AQuestioner]

4:16 Although the simplified version of love, “爱” lost its heart, “心”, it has another character that is related to love: friend, “友”.

[sailorscorpio]

For me, Korean (Hangul) is the easiest to read/write/learn, then Japanese, then Chinese

I guess Chinese is the hardest for me because there IS NO "alphabet"

Great video :)

[AGirlInHoody]

When I decided to learn an Asian language I made a little research on Japanese, Chinese and Korean writing systems, and chose Korean language to start learning. Memorizing thousands of characters just seems like something impossible for me. And Korean alphabet, on the other hand, is very easy to learn. Also, I wouldn't say that Korean grammar and pronunciation is difficult. It has a lot in common with my native language, which is from Turkic language family.

[tzioctr]

安(あ, a)　以(い, i)　宇(う, u)　江(え, e)　於(お, o)
It went like this.
So technically, all the japanese characters are based on chinese characters.

[aosadoifbaiosdfna]

Funny to see how some people find Korean writings and Japanese writings similar when one is considered to be the easiest and the other the hardest.

[williamlincoln]

Since Korea created it's own character which is called hangul, Korea has gradually become not using Chinese character. Now, Koreans hardly use Chinese character and they don't even know Chinese character.

[isabelanegoita]

Korean is the easiest to learn imo, followed by japanese because there if you forget a character you can replace it with hiragana or katakana and some words you don't even have kanji or they have but are not used. Chinese is the hardest as you need to learn a character for each word