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Languages and Linguistics

soryang

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2. Korean and Chinese

Reply to Igel (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 22, 2024, 12:36 AM

Mar 22

The Korean vocabulary is approximately 60 percent Chinese. I'm learning mandarin now and the similarity is so great, I'm finding it much easier than Korean to learn to read. Changing the Chinese characters to hangul didn't change their meaning. The pronunciation, grammar and word order is different.

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