{"id":10299,"date":"2022-01-17T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elblogdeidiomas.es\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2022-01-25T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T08:51:42","slug":"is-it-chinese-japanese-korean-tricks-to-recognize-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elblogdeidiomas.es\/en\/is-it-chinese-japanese-korean-tricks-to-recognize-them\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f359;Is it Chinese? Japanese? Korean? Tricks to recognize them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many Spanish speakers, <strong>Asian languages \u200b\u200bcan seem completely incomprehensible and indistinguishable from each other<\/strong>.\u00a0A written text can be intelligible, as they all look like hieroglyphs, and listening to a conversation in the original language is almost a challenge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 2rem; background: #F4F4F4;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #fff; background: #FF6868;\">\u00cdNDICE DE CONTENIDOS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#referring\">When referring to writing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#details\">Details to take into account<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#languages\">Grammar of the 3 languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#in\">In summary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phonetically\u00a0<strong>the three languages \u200b\u200bare very different<\/strong> and it is quite easy to know if the language they are speaking in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. But not only do they sound different, but they are also written very differently, here I will explain &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Japanese is considered to have no major difficulty, only 2 or 3 sounds may be more complicated but with a little practice will dominate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Korean instead is easier to understand but harder to pronounce<\/strong>, has many sounds that neither exist in English.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to\u00a0<strong>the pronunciation of Chinese, it is considered the most complicated<\/strong>, in addition to the sounds that do not exist in Spanish, Chinese has different intonations that, depending on how you say them, completely change the meaning of the word.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"referring\">When referring to writing<\/h2>\n<p>All these languages \u200b\u200bare based on the Chinese script, however in addition to it, Japanese and Korean have other writing systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Japanese is<\/strong>\u00a0considered to\u00a0<strong>be the most complicated in this regard<\/strong>. It is written without spaces and uses 3 systems to write, so you can imagine it, I have already detailed each of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hiragana<\/strong>\u00a0(\u3072 \u3089 \u304c \u306a), uses many curves, it is a syllabary, the consonant and the vowel go together, it is used to write native Japanese grammar and vocabulary, in addition to the pronunciation of the kanji.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katakana<\/strong>\u00a0(\u30ab \u30bf \u30ab \u30ca), uses many straight lines, and it is also a syllabary with the same sounds as hiragana, so what distinguishes them? Well, katakana is used to write words from other languages \u200b\u200bsuch as foreigners or proper names.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kanji<\/strong>\u00a0(\u6f22\u5b57), is the most complex and is the same as Chinese, the Kanji or Chinese letters, it is a logographic system (it expresses ideas, instead of phonemes, most of the time), they represent objects, concepts, actions &#8230; they can be combined together to form a large number of words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An important note, even if the\u00a0<strong>same word can be written with Hiragana or Kanjis<\/strong>\u00a0it will always be much faster to write and read with Kanjis and will also take up less space.\u00a0Of course because instead of writing many letters, only one symbol is put.\u00a0Did I explain myself?<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that in\u00a0<strong>Japanese, the characters are extremely simple<\/strong>\u00a0compared to Korean or Chinese, some only require a single stroke of the pencil to reproduce them.<\/p>\n<h3>Korean<\/h3>\n<p>Many say that Korean\u00a0<strong>is the simplest language to learn to write<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0This is so because it only has one alphabet, known as Hangeul.\u00a0However, in Korea, as in Spanish, they use a phonetic alphabet in which each symbol corresponds to a sound.\u00a0The\u00a0<strong>Hangeul has 19 consonants and 21 vowels that are combined together in syllabic groups<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0The vowels are divided into vertical, horizontal and compound.\u00a0Korean letters are written from top to bottom and from left to right.\u00a0Syllables always begin with a consonant.<\/p>\n<p>Its characters\u00a0<strong>contain a large number of circles and ovals<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0In it, straight lines also predominate versus curvilinear ones.\u00a0Also, many people believe that a large part of their symbols resemble faces (similar to the emoticons that are commonly used today).<\/p>\n<h4><em>Note that while Japanese has curved shapes, it doesn&#8217;t have full circles like Korean characters.<\/em><\/h4>\n<h3>Chinese<\/h3>\n<p>The Chinese language\u00a0<strong>does not have an alphabet<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0It is made up exclusively of ideograms.\u00a0Each of these symbols represents an abstract concept, and they combine with each other to form the different words and sentences.\u00a0In Chinese each word has its own image and each character its own sound.\u00a0Thus, since it does not have an alphabet, it is necessary to know the meaning of each and every one of these symbols.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese\u00a0<strong>is grouped into 7 language families<\/strong>\u00a0, also divided into additional dialects.\u00a0However, the Chinese writing system is relatively consistent throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to comment that Chinese writing\u00a0<strong>has two types<\/strong>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Traditional, used in Taiwan and southern China, \u6f22\u5b57 (Hanzi)<\/li>\n<li>Simplified, used in Singapore, Malaysia and the rest of China \u6c49\u5b50 (Hanzi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main difference between both writings is that one requires fewer strokes than the other, but both follow the same rule.<\/p>\n<p><em>I give you an example Coca-Cola in the 3 languages:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Japanese Korean Chinese<\/p>\n<p>\u30b3 \u30ab \u30b3 \u30fc \u30e9 \ucf54\uce74 &#8211; \ucf5c\ub77c \u53ef\u53e3\u53ef\u6a02<\/p>\n<p>Kokak\u014dra koka kolla K\u011bk\u01d2uk\u011bl\u00e8<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"details\">Details to take into account<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Koreans<\/strong>\u00a0put spaces between words, as well as European languages.\u00a0On the other hand, neither Chinese nor Japanese separate words with spaces.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Japanese<\/strong>\u00a0have their own punctuation, the Korean uses the same signs that European languages.\u00a0Chinese calligraphy sometimes uses a question mark or exclamation point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the direction of writing,\u00a0<strong>in Japanese it is allowed to write horizontally like we Westerners and you can still do it vertically<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0You must take into account that if the text is horizontal we must read it starting at the top and on the left.\u00a0On the other hand, if it is vertical, it has to start at the top right.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"languages\">Grammar of the 3 languages<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Korean<\/strong>\u00a0language\u00a0<strong>shares the same basic grammar with Japanese<\/strong>\u00a0and more than half of it uses vocabulary from Chinese, so they can get you confused at some point as they are very similar.<\/li>\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>Chinese and Japanese there are no articles<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0The Japanese do not differentiate between &#8220;a&#8221; and &#8220;some&#8221; either. Although this does not cause many problems for Spaniards who want to learn Japanese, it can be difficult for Japanese who want to learn Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>Chinese it is not necessary to indicate the masculine or feminine gender<\/strong>\u00a0, as well as the plural.\u00a0Chinese words are therefore invariable.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Chinese<\/strong>\u00a0language\u00a0is of the SVO type, that is,\u00a0<strong>the sentences are composed by subject &#8211; verb &#8211; object,<\/strong>\u00a0like most Western languages.\u00a0If there is time and place, the simple phrase will acquire this structure, STLVO, that is, subject &#8211; time &#8211; place &#8211; verb &#8211; object.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese has the simplest grammar and Japanese has so many commonly used English terms that it is not very difficult to memorize the words.\u00a0In contrast, Korean grammar is probably the most difficult.<\/li>\n<li>Korean and Japanese\u00a0<strong>have a SOV structure, (different from Chinese) that establishes subject-object-verb,<\/strong>\u00a0and the conjugation of verbs varies according to the person the speaker is addressing (through three different levels of respect , this aspect is the same as the Japanese one).<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Korean has no gender<\/strong>\u00a0, numerical agreement or articles (such as French or German).<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of the formality or the different levels of respect,\u00a0<strong>it is noted with the changes<\/strong>\u00a0in certain nouns and in the verbal endings.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Koreans often use pronouns shared or community<\/strong>\u00a0, like us or we, instead of I or me.\u00a0This stems from the communal nature of Korean culture and society.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The nouns, both in Korean, Chinese and Japanese do not have a gender or number<\/strong>\u00a0, which can make them very easy to use, but complicated when interpreting.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of\u00a0<strong>grammar in Chinese<\/strong>\u00a0, compared to Spanish or English it is simpler and easier since it is very reduced, although in Japanese it is much more complicated and comprehensive.\u00a0Likewise, Chinese does not conjugate verbs and adjectives, while in Japanese it does.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 id=\"in\">In summary<\/h2>\n<p>In summary, we can say that\u00a0<strong>Korean is considered the simplest language to learn to read and write<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0Chinese requires more effort to memorize and learn to write, however, believe it or not, there is a logic behind those characters, to learn to read them without having to memorize each one.\u00a0As a curious note, note that although it shares the same basic grammar with Japanese, 50% of its vocabulary comes from Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Until a next article,<\/p>\n<p>\ub2e4\uc74c \uae30\uc0ac \uae4c\uc9c0<\/p>\n<p>\u6b21 \u306e \u8a18\u4e8b \u307e \u3067<\/p>\n<p>\u76f4\u5230 \u4e0b \u4e00\u7bc7 \u6587\u7ae0<\/p>\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-valign-bottom kksr-align-left \" data-id=\"9850\" data-slug=\"\">\n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n<div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;10299&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;\u00a1D\u00e9janos unas estrellitas si te ha gustado el post!&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;3\\\/5 - (2 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;\\u0026#x1f359;Is it Chinese? 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