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How To Tell Chinese, Koreans and Japanese Apart
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我们去哪里啊 - Wo men qu na li a (where are we going?)
有啊 - you a (I have)
你是谁啊 - Ni shi shei a (who are you?)
Koreans put -simda at the end of everything.
The Japanese don't do either, so that's how I tell the difference.
Also, I know the sound of Korean and Chinese and if it doesn't sound like Korean or Chinese, they are Japanese. 
I have an ear for Asian languages, having had school mates who spoke all kinds of Asian languages, I can hear it and tell what language they are speaking, ..but Can't tell what they are saying.
Note, loved HOSHI SATO on startrek Enterprise, that girl could speak tons of languages including Aliens languages. She was the first to figure out Klingon!
(another case of a Korean actress playing a Japanese-Linda Park)
