I am currently studying Korean and have learned it up to a beginner/intermediate level. I had previously studied a little Chinese and Japanese as well, but I forgot most of what I had learned as I was nowhere near knowing them at an intermediate level anyways

Anyways, I know that Korean and Japanese are very grammatically similar and Sino-Korean words today make up about 60% of the Korean vocabulary. I have also heard that the pronunciation of many hanja and their corresponding hanzi differ considerably. How true is this? Is it much easier for Korean speakers to learn the pronunciation of Chinese words than Japanese words? Is it easier for Korean speakers to learn Chinese vocabulary than it is to learn Japanese vocabulary? Because I am highly interested in Chinese and Japanese, I've thought about re-learning one of them while also studying Korean concurrently

Has anyone tried learning Korean with Chinese or Japanese at the same time?

Last edited by boycott (2013 February 03, 7:58 am)