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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
I'm curious if anyone here has studied Korean after learning Japanese to a pretty high level of proviciency. If so, was Korean easier to learn, having already gained a mastery of Japanese?
After I add a few more Japanese kanji and get my Spanish fluency back where it should be, I was thinking about adding German (my ancestral language) and Korean to my arsenal, but only under the assumption that Korean would be pretty easy after Japanese.
If not, I'll work on German and Dutch instead. Dutch is allegedly the easiest language for a native English speaker to learn.
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Most people I know speak both and have been perfecting them simultaneous (native English speakers) and they say the Japanese is easier. But after one semester of Japanese and a few weeks on my own with friends, I found Korean much easier to to understand than Japanese. It may be that a person's ear is tuned better to one or the other. I am still wondering about that.