I'm Brazilian, and I'm learning Korean, Chinese and Japanese by myself online because I love their culture, and I've wanted to learn Vietnamese too... I think it's difficult but I won't give up

As the person who can speak these 4 languages, I think ppl should learn Chinese at first, then it is easy to conquer the rest of these languages.

To many Vietnamese, Chinese is considered the easiest languages to learn. Most individuals can achieve conversational fluency in Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese) within six months. I believe Japanese and Korean are more challenging, but not as difficult as European languages.

00:02 Understanding the synergy between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese can help you learn all four languages simultaneously. 01:45 Chinese characters played a significant role in the cultural exchange among Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. 03:37 Chinese characters in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan have different historical developments and usage 05:31 Sino vocabulary is an important aspect in learning Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese 07:32 Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have similar grammar and politeness systems. 09:36 Different languages have different word order patterns 11:35 Comparison of politeness levels in Japanese and Korean 13:28 Mastering Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese opens doors to fascinating cultures and new perspectives. Crafted by Merlin AI.

I am Vietnamese, I totally agree with you, I learn English from 10 years old, now I am learning Chinese, Korean, Japanese too so I really understand what you mean. Learn Chinese first then others, then Korean alphabet and Hira Kata in Japanese, the similar sound make you have a good feeling in 4 languages. Love your video❤

I am Vietnamese and now I have been living in Japan as a foreign student. I totally agree with you. Convergence among Vietnamese and Japnesese through Chinese helps me a lot when learning Japanese. By the way, I am studying Chinese now, and thanks to Kanji that I learnt , I can learn Chinese much more easier, of course since the SVO structure between Vietnamese and Chinese is similar though 知的な君が羨ましい

Your language skills are incredible! Finally a great video share about the similarity of these 4 languages!

UKposts have just recommended this video to me. Your video is in great quality and the way you describe those languages is so easy to understand. I am a Vietnamese who is learning Japanese and Chinese. I'm really happy to find this informative video. Thank you and please keep up the good work.

So glad I came across your video. In the beginning stages of learning Japanese and Vietnamese and this is a gem! Actually would love to learn all 4 languages and many others.

As someone who’s learning Korean,I really loved this video! Could you do a video on strategies for westerners learning left branching languages?! I feel like that’s one of the main things I struggle with.😅

Wow! Thank you very much! I initially only watch this video in preview mode but honestly, the quality in the way you describe the knowledge of these 4 languages is just A-class and made me jump right through the comment section to express this POV 😃. Your explanation is really detailed, and although the Vietnamese tone & pronunciations didn’t match, I truely appreciate the overall understanding & your ability to connect all the four languages’s similiarities (this might be something I could never do). The tone in your voice does help making the explanation much better too. Makes me feel bad to watch this for free .. Anyway, I just wanna say I’ve been obsessed with this problem for 2 years but this video’s just solved that long-age question been stuck in my head 😂😂! Congratulations, thank you very much & you just earned a sub!!

I'm made the same experience when I was learning Chinese and Japanese at the same time. Few years later I start with Korean. It was surprising how easy it was to learn. NExt year I should stat learning Vietnamese .

As a Vietnamese trying to be fluent at Chinese, Korean and Japanese... I love that they're all connected somehow. Once I'm more fluent at Korean I'm moving to Japanese all the way. Since my Chinese is at an intermediate level already hopefully it won't be too hard (except it's super hard I've seen my friend struggling lol). 若干年后，我一定会超越现在的自己。

I study Hakka, Hokkien and Hmong: languages that don’t have any resources like typical languages, so it takes me a VERY long time to develop learning them. Anyone else a unique language learner instead of a typical polyglot?

Thank you so much for making these videos. I enjoyed them and I appreciated how you were respectful of all 4 languages without making one language appear more superior over the others, like many other youtubers do. I cannot follow biased videos like those videos and they do not help me learn anything. So thank you again for your indepth and respectful explanations of these 4 beautiful languages. You've re-ignited my desire to learn the other three languages (Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) and also to improve on my own Vietnamese language since I grew up overseas in Canada instead of in Vietnam.

I'm really interested about the topic of this video but at the end, what I like the most was the love and passion you clearly have for talking about this.

Brilliant presentation. Thank you. My Asia languages are Chinese Vietnamese and Tagalog. Also, you showed the exact polyglot template which I have talked about.

The best feeling is when you found another persons who also spoke at least two East Asian languages and the similarities are so interesting that you can't stop talking about it.

Great video, professor. I studied Korean long time ago and I'd wish I had such interesting insight to all those languages. 감사합니다.

Your contents are so concrete and well-organized

thank you so much !!! This is a really interesting video. As a Vietnamese, we are very proud of our history that we have been taught a lot of great education in the world. And you know, same as China, Japan and Korea, we are also affected by Confucianism and Buddhism as well so basically, it’s spreads on our life in language, lifestyle and many more. And we did, of course, used a lot of Sino-related things such as words and many more. We also have a fun game like: for some Koreans and Japaneses who are living in our country, we also translated their name in Vietnamese and call them by their Vietnamese’s version (of course, through Chinese). For example, a guy name “Takehito” in Japanese but when written in Chinese, the part “Hito” becomes 山 (shan in Chinese) or in Vietnamese, we say “Sơn” so he becomes Mr.Sơn in my country. For Koreans, let’s see, such as Jungkook, singer of BTS, in Korean, his name is 전정국 but in Chinese is 田柾國, so we call him in Vietnamese is “Điền Chính Quốc”

as a language enthusiast i appreciate the time you put in each language to learn them .

Thank you :) Your analysis is excellent!

Lots of work. Great job. Thanks for explanation.

As a Japanese, the efficiency of learning Korean jumped up when I found out that the famous Korean way to express appreciation "감사합니다-Kamsa hamnida" is actually "感謝합니다" and it has a perfectly direct counterpart in Japanese, 感謝いたします (Kansha itashimasu, a more formal way to say thank you than ありがとうございます-Arigatou gozaimasu).

I'm studying Chinese, Japanese and Korean now. I find Korean to be the most difficult so far, but the similarities between the three is actually what inspired me to study them simultaneously. So far, I'm enjoying it. I had planned to start an arabic language after i got a basic understanding, but maybe I'll try Vietnamese... Or both lol

In future I want to see myself being good in all these languages, thank you for the video! It is really inspiring and helpful.

This video is really interesting. Growing up bilingual with German and Vietnamese I admit learning Chinese when I was at university was pretty easy in comparison to my fellow students. But I also did 1 yeah Korean. I really struggled and kinda gave up. Japanese I never tried. I did try to learn Cantonese though but also no success. But watching your video I might pick up korean again 😊

Hello teacher! What an incredible video. I have been studying Korean for over a year and I also want to learn Chinese and Japanese. This video enlightened my mind, I'm going to create a plan to start with Japanese for a few months, and then continue, but also include Chinese. It will be a challenge, but I'm up for it. Thank you so much!!! (By the way, I love your videos)

I listened to a very similar presentation of yours on the Easy Languages podcast and I have to say you have piqued my interest! But right now I'm only less than 2 years in Japanese and am still a beginner, learning these four languages together seems like a lifelong project...

This is great. Keep this content up and you will hit 100k subs in no time.

You are such a great tutor!

This video came to us in the best time ever, at least for me. Because that´s my goal, speak fluently all of these languges. Diffently this is one of the best videos I've ever watched about learn languages.

This is a great video, and it was especially remarkable of you that you included Vietnamese as well when other similar videos often only focus on the three east asian languages. I absolutley agree with you that it is much more rewarding than it is time consuming and requires commitment, to learn multiple languages that are similar to each other. With that said, if I may, there's 2 things I'd like to nitpick in your explanation on Japanese and Korean sharing basically 3 politeness speech levels, from 12:28. First, the Korean names of the first politeness levels are simply swapped. 해체 is the least polite form in which the verb 먹다 would be 먹어, and in 해요체, which would be in the middle in comparison among the three, it is 먹어요. Second, a Korean counterpart of Japanese 敬語 is not necessarilly 합니다체. The Japanese verb you used as an example of it, 召し上がる, would more specifically be classified as 尊敬語, which are a set of verbs that are used to describe an action of a person you pay a lot of respect to, as opposed to 謙譲語, which are used to refer to an action of yourself (or someone in the same social hierarchie level as you), to humble yourself (or the person) down in front of a person in a higher social position. The Korean counterpart of 召し上がる would be, in the sense that it can only describe a person in a higher social position eating, 드시다. As far as I know Korean 합니다체 can describe anyones action regardless of their social position, except it would just sound more polite than 해요체, in which sense there's no direct Japanese counterpart of it.

Very informative video! Learned some new things :) really hope to someday make bigger strides with Japanese and actually start learning Korean. Thank you for sharing!!!

First of all big fan of your work. I found your videos while looking into the topic of the effects of identity in the development of a native like accent since thats what I am trying to do for Japanese. Currently I am primarily trying to develop listening fluency, since my speaking skill are ok(grammer is meh but pretty sure if I developed my listening better I would have a greater grap on the sov) and literacy while I have some proficiency is not something I need for another couple of years. I regularly watch content on youtube and speak with some Japanese people for short period of time but was wondering how I could better integrate more comprehensible input and listening oriented vocab practice into my studies.

9:04 i'd add another important similarity in Chinese and Vietnamese which is both language is a Tonal language so each word has a tone unlike korean and Japanese that's why when you hear a chinese word origin from Korean and Japan they tend to be flat and not much tone , while Vietnamese retain the tone since the first day that certain vocabulary was introduced to Vietnam , most word are arrive from the Tang dynasty that's when Chinese classical was the top of the region influence many others neighbor but that also when the first time in history Chinese become a tonal language , not sure if Vietnam was already a tonal language from that time yet but anyway now both are, people might overlook Tonal language think it's not important when learning Chinese or vietnamese but that's where most foreigner fail, if you nail the tone you nail basically the language its just as important as remembering the grammar or vocab

I love this video! I’ve studied each of these languages to some degree and noticed the similarities over the years. I’ve always thought they’d be the ultimate group of languages to learn 😊

This was an interesting video, thank you a lot!

Great topic! Great way of teaching languages.

I had an eureka moment when I saw how it was possible to stack up japanese, korean and chinese--but now you present the idea that is possible to go one step ahead and stack vietnamese on the top of it. Very interesting ;)

The knowledge you said open my mind. I am Vietnamese and want to learn japanese, your videos are really helpful for my study, thank you a lot.

Super interesting! I started my young children on Mandarin Chinese this year…excited to expand slowly over time!

In my opinion, I feel it's easier to learn many vocabulary from japanese, korean, and vietnamese because it is more similar to Cantonese which is one of the many chinese languages.

this is a absolutly fantastic video! as a chinese person that speaks both cantonese and mandarin i was able to pick up vietnamese (thanks to my vietnamese gf) fairly easy, like seriously easy lol, i also noticed that maybe historical means may have influenced the way the sinosphere developed, when i looked at the other half of asian influence, the indosphere (india pakistan bangladesh laos cambodia thailand, basically the other half of asia) things were vastly different. even culturally you can see all those countries share the same influence in their food/cuisine, clothing and celebrations, all cultural aspects, then you see the same between china/vietnam/japan and korea. it's a beautiful thing, i guess it's not that much different when you look at other neighboring counties in other areas, like ukranian/russian/east european, or the anglosphere, etc. i just wish there could be more celebration amoung these topics as it feels like most people aren't interested in history when it is the most interesting thing to me haha!

The real picture of languages in this region is actually more fascinating. As a Chinese from the south I can speak both Mandarin and Cantonese, and some other dialects as well. Arguably Chinese dialects are often referred as Sinitic languages by linguists due to the great differences between them, but as someone who is interested in this topic I found it very similar to the relationship between Japanese and Korean: mostly same word order, mostly same vocabulary (including day-to-day verbs and grammatical particles), different phonological systems but as predictable as the similarity level between Japanese and Korean pronunciation for Kanji/Hanja words. The tone system is kind of similar as they are quite predictable, as all Sinitic languages inherit the four-tone system from Middle Chinese with their own changes like split and merge applied (that's why most Sinitic languages have 4-8 tones), which means if you know the tone of one character in one dialect, its tone in another dialect can be predicted if you know the rules to be applied. This is fascinating for me while learning Chu Han pronunciation in Vietnamese, because the process of "pronunciation guessing" is exactly the same as guessing from one Sinitic language to another. Anyway really nice work!

BestInformation so far for me as an Outsider. You explained Chinese time Grammar so well for me. A major leap. Thank you so much!

That's awesome, thanks for sharing. Actually, these 4 countries have many similarities from language to culture. Wishing teachers good health

丁度、韓国語３年前から、勉強しているところです…. I've been learning Korean now for about 3 years at this point. As someone who already spoke pretty good Japanese, I think the Kanji/ Hanja words thing and Svo n cultural similarities definitely make this much easier than if I didn't speak/ know Japanese n Japan.. I'm also slowly learning a bit of Chinese , and notice that just knowing similar kanji and how to use kanji makes the burden much less. Given how much effort goes into learning kanji for Japanese, it's nice to get some " free milage " out of kanji for Korean and Chinese. 😂 Feels a bit like a coupon deal. ..😂. 2 for 1, 3 for 1.... Deal. 😂. Anyways, this was interesting for me, including about the Vietnamese dialects. I wonder if you could talk about Vietnamese north and south language and also your experiences with learning Vietnamese.. specifically about how much would knowing Chinese ( and/ or Japanese or Korean ...) Would / were an advantage in doing that Vietnamese learning journey. ? もっと、そのような話しや、backstory など、是非聞かせてみたいです。 宜しくお願い致します。

I love this video, I have been learning chinese for 3 years. I speak spanish (my mother tongue), english and french too. My goal right now is to master Chinese and move on to japanese and later korean. I'm a bit worried that I might confuse some characters with chinese when learning Japanese. Any tips? 🤔

I have been trying to learn some Japanese with mediocre success, so far. I know a few phrases in Korean and Vietnamese and Chinese as well. However, this explanation of the connections between them all is remarkable! I'm going to have a bit of trouble wrapping my head around it all at first but, I believe this may be a key element in my becoming more fluent in them all. Especially, since I wish to retire to Japan or Thailand in the not so distant future and, yes, I am picking up a little Thai right now. Wait a minute! That did't sound quite right the way I wrote it. I'd better stop here. LOL Thanks for making this video. I will have to follow up with reviewing more of you productions.

What an interesting video! Great information, I can tell u put alot of research into this Cảm ơn chú đã cố gắng học tiếng Việt 🎉

As a Korean, studying Japanese feels like a bonus. There is nothing difficult about learning Japanese other than having to memorize all the kanji. Even though I learn English at school, it's still difficult for me and I'm not good at it. However, Japanese, which I learned simply as a hobby, was very easy to learn. Since it is a similar language, I can learn it happily, and my skills improve faster.

Hi! I am Vietnamese, your information is great. Thanks for sharing this useful information.❤💯👍

Hey, I'm interested in learning all these languages. Could you maybe make a step by step video how to learn these languages at the same time or which ones first. I'm a bit overwhelmed and don't know where to start. Thanks a lot.

Thank you for the video, I've learned a lot. And fortunately for me, you haven't talked about the aspect that I think is most important, which is that all these languages have their origins in a visual-based script, which is completely different from the sound-based alphabetic script. This is especially confusing for Vietnamese because they use Latin letters and so they think that their writing is also alphabetical. That's not it, they only use the Latin letters. In your video you make it very clear that Vietnamese, like other languages, is characterized by the influence of the logographic script. Compares well with the comic strip, which also has no periods and commas, just like the old Chinese script. At the end you briefly talk about the tones, in my videos I often talk about the confusion that arises from calling these languages 'tonal languages'. I suspect that naming the languages after the tones started somewhere when the Europeans arrived in Asia and did not understand why the languages are so different, pointing to the intensive use of the tones could well be the origin. But the word 'tone languages' suggests that there is a lot of music in these languages and in fact nothing could be further from the truth. Because of the tones, the use of sound options has become extremely limited. For those who are used to English, your video is in English, so you are targeting that group, the difficulty is mainly to limit yourself to those few tones and not to use sound options to give emotional meaning to what you say, for example.

Before you mentioned it at 1:35 , my exact curiosity and why I checked this video out, was the Primary Language Family differences, from Austroasiatic to Koreanic to Sino-Tibetan and Japonic I am very curious about how these could work, beyond Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja

Thanks for making such a helpful video like this! Also, I have some questions.. Is finding a motivation really important to speak these languages fluently?

Hats off to you Sir. I'm Vietnamese and I found it easier to learn Chinese Korean Japanese than my other south east asian friends. You are the master 🎉of

If you familiar to Fujianese Minnan dialects, you would be greatly helped in reading into a lot of SINO words. This is because Minnan is a descendant of Middle Chinese language, when the sinosphere was flourished in Japan, Korea and Vietnam, instead of the newer dialect such as Mandarin which was actually brought by Mongols dynasty to become the official language centuries after the Middle Chinese era.

6:40 slight correction: the word 革命 already existed in Classical Chinese prior to the modern era, having been coined as late as the eastern Han, and thus cannot be considered 和製漢語. More accurately, the historical word was reappropriated to fit a modern context by Fukuzawa Yukichi (福沢諭吉) who was a political commentator and translator who studied these things. Great video overall. As a Canto and Japanese speaker, I do plan on moving on to Korean and Vietnamese in the future

Tình cờ cháu tìm được kênh của chú, cháu không ngờ là có người có thể nói được nhiều ngôn ngữ như vậy. Cháu là người Việt, có biết tiếng Anh và cháu rất muốn học tiếng Nhật, tiếng Hàn, tiếng Trung ạ. Sau đã học tiếng Nhật thử và cháu thấy tiếng Nhật rất khó ạ. Chỉ học bảng chữ cái thôi cháu đã thấy khó nhớ rồi. Nhưng tiếng Nhật cháu thấy phát âm khá dễ. Và chữ Kanji thì cháu không biết là học như thế nào vì quá phức tạp và khó nhớ. Mong chú làm thêm nhiều video chủ đề về các ngôn ngữ này ạ.

Great video! I have one curiosity: do you feel like your personality changes when you switch languages because of the availability of words and ways of expressing your thoughts? Greetings from a young quadrilingual! 😊

The biggest difference between Vietnamese and the other 3 languages is that in Vietnamese the adjective comes after the noun and in the remaining 3 languages the adjective comes before the noun similar to English.

Thank you so much, I am studying Japanese and preparing to take N5 examination. I also want to study Korean or Chinese. This video is best fix for me. ^^

Great explanation!👏

I'm very interested to learn all these four languages!!! I now fully understand the nature and the background of these languages and the resulting similarities.

What many fail to notice is that the similarity between Japanese and Korean is not only just the word order, markers, and sino-vocabulary. The two languages are astonishingly similar even in much finer details, including particles, auxiliary verbs, compound verbs, and idiomatic words for certain senses. Here’s some examples. Both languages use the auxiliary verb “to see” (見る/보다) to mean “to casually try something:” “…てみる” & “…아/어 보다.” Also the auxiliary verb “to give” (くれる/あげる/주다) to mean “to do someone a favor:” “…てくれる/…てあげる/…아/어 주다.” The auxiliary verb “to exist” (居る/있다) to convey the progressive tense: “…ている/…고 있다.” “To go” (行く/가다) for “doing something little by little:” “…ていく/…てゆく/…아/어 가다.” “…て-おく” and “…아/어 두다.” “…て-しまう” and “…아/어 버리다.” They use the verb “to be hung” (掛かる/걸리다) to mean “to take a specific amount of time; to get a specific illness; etc.” sharing the exact same senses. They even shares some compound verbs: “払い込む” & “불입(拂入)하다” (to pay); “取り消す” & “취소(取消)하다” (to cancel)….

I started learning Japanese first till I decided to learn Korean and later on when I become fluent In Korean I will come back learning Japanese but during my studies In learning Korean I have noticed a lot of Chinese characters In Korean and just the pronunciation between the two are just slightly different but every much similar so I think learning Korean first is the easiest language of the four but also learning it I think as the foundation to help you learn Chinese and Japanese

Impressed! Grateful! Totemo omoshirokatta! I've been studying all these languages except for Vietnamese ! Fueled to keep going!! Endless Gratitude!! Take care!

I’m Indonesian who can speak Indonesian + 3 traditional Indonesian languages, an everage English, and now learning Japanese, that means 6 languages in my head now, not to mention French and Korean with a really basic level. watching this makes me considering to blow my head even more 😂

Dear Language Professor Tim Keeley I am so glad that I watch your video incidentally😂. I have been learning Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. I grow up with Taiwanese and learned traditional Chinese at schools. I found out all are transformers of 漢文. The last but not least is that Taiwanese is the one most close to 漢文.🎉❤😂 Enjoying language learning All the best Ken Chou😊

Such an informative video! As a Vietnamese, should I learn Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, then Korean in that order if speaking & listening are my top priorities? Or other suggestive order? Thanks, Professor Tim.

I'm a 1.5 generation Chinese-American and find Chinese-adjacent languages much harder because I tend to approach foreign languages from an English or French speaker's perspective. I have very little conscious knowledge of Chinese grammar or vocabulary usage since what is right is "just right" to me since I grew up speaking and reading it but never studying it. I've also never had to learn another language from a Chinese perspective. To put things in perspective, I spent MONTHS trying to master the difference between the French verbs “savoir" and "connaître" and did not realize until nearly a decade later that the same difference exists in Chinese. When I learned Italian, I automatically used my French as my scaffold language because it was so similar and also because unlike for Chinese and English, I was aware of all the mechanics of French. It was to the point where if something didn't exist in French, I couldn't say it right in Italian even if it was more similar to the languages I knew better.

As a Vietnamese currently teaching myself Chinese, Japanese and Korean, I think the best order to go is Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean. Chinese and Vietnamese have very similar grammar, and both have tones, with Vietnamese having more tones and slightly harder. Tones is the one thing that I find foreigners struggle with the most. Once you’re familiar with Chinese tones the Viet tones will be more manageable. Then since you’ve learned some Hanzi, it’ll help with learning Japanese’s Kanji. Then Korean, as Japanese and Korean have similar word order. Another reason for this order is I like to sandwich the one that I find harder with the one I find easier as a breather, but this is personal and depends on what your mother tongue is. Or maybe just start with the one that connects or inspires you the most, as it will make the learning experience less laborious and more enjoyable. In my case I love Chinese poetry so I start with it.

❤❤❤ thanks a lot for very nice infor. Love it so much. These 4 countries share many similar cultures _(called Sino-Sphere or East Asian Cultural Sphere)_ , and of course many loan-words are used in all 4 China, Japan, Korea & Vietnam. There are history connections between 4 these ones. ❤❤❤ Love all of these countries - Sino-Sphere so much....!

As A Korean, I totally agree with this video. Korean and Japanese have a lot of similarities, such as grammar and vocabulary. And thanks to this, I learned Japanese much more quickly than English. Although I'm not good at reading and writing kanji, I can communicate in Japanese with almost no problem. Thanks for the video! I didn't know about the relationship between Vietnamese and other East-Asian languages, but I can see now!

Thank you for making this video, you explained the differences and similarities between these languages in an extremely understandable manner! I am a Croat who really wants to learn an asian language, Japanese and Chinese to be specific. I've started learning Chinese and I really love the language! Do you think its a good idea to study Japanese at the same time? This is a completely foreign language family to me so I'm not sure if doing that would confuse me? (I learnt German and English at the same time and I did fine but I have much less time now and I don't wanna waste it!) Many thanks!

Sounds good. Love it.

I study mandarim for 5 years, now just begun japanese and korean, maybe i will try viet when master these three

Thank you for motivating me, I've been studying Mandarin for the past two years, I'd been interested and was studying Japanese casually when I was at the university. Also there are a lot of Vietnamese people living in our country and I've been getting curious about the language recently. Korean is tempting me as well, I like their gaming culture, the script and "simplicity" of pronunciation compared to the other ones 😁 I'll branch out this year.

I learned Japanese first, then Korean, now Chinese, but I haven't delved more than an ankle deep into Vietnamese, but it would be a fun venture.

Can you post a video of you speaking vietnamese? I’m just so curious of the way you speak. I’ve never known anyone who can speak Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese. That’s so surreal. I’m a vietnamese, btw.

I'm a Korean student who has studied Japanese and a bit of Chinese. (srry for my bad English) First, I want to say thank you for making this great video. I've never seen a Westerner like you who is analyzing exactly the similarities between languages in East Asia. I watched it very interesting. However, there is an error, so I would like to correct the part. 12:28 is the one I found. You said both Korean and Japanese have basically 3 politeness levels to explain the similarities between Korean and Japanese. Actually, Korean politeness levels are not three. Korean is spoken with 4 politeness levels in 격식체 GYEOKSIKCHE(formal form) and 2 politeness levels in 비격식체 BIGYEOKSIKCHE(informal form). In GYEOKSIKCHE(formal form), there are 해라체 HAERACHE - 하게체 HAGECHE - 하오체 HAOCHE - 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE. In BIGYEOKSIKCHE(informal form), there are 해체 HAECHE - 해요체 HAEYOCHE. These are the six politeness levels in sentence termination, which are expressing "Who is the higher one; a speaker or a listener." The right side is more polite, and the left side is more generous. 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE corresponds to 'です。' and 'ます。' in Japanese. For example, I am a teacher. 私は先生だ。= 나는 선생님이다. -> 해라체 HAERACHE 私は先生です。 = 저는 선생님입니다. -> 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE(polite to a listener) (Subject) play with a friend. 友達と遊ぶ。 = 친구와 놀다. -> 해라체 HAERACHE 友達と遊びます。 = 친구와 놉니다. -> 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE(polite to a listener) Also you compared '召し上がる' and "먹습니다." 13:43, but they are totally different. "먹습니다." is 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE, which is one of 6 politeness levels in sentence termination, and they are expressing "Who is the higher one; a speaker or a listener." So "먹습니다." corresponds to "食べます。" However, '召し上がる' is not expressing "Who is the higher one; a speaker or a listener." It expresses politeness to the subject of the verb.(NOT "the subject of a sentence") And '召し上がる' corresponds to '드시다' in Korean. '드시다' has exactly same meaning with '먹다' which means EAT, but we have to use '드시다' if we want to express politeness to the person who is eating. In Korean, we use some special vocabularies to express politeness to the subject of the verb. And this can not be used when the subject of the verb is the SPEAKER. I'll give an example. (O) 내가 빵을 먹다. (I eat bread.) -> 해라체 HAERACHE (O) 제가 빵을 먹습니다. (I eat bread.) -> 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE (X) 내가 빵을 드시다. -> special vocabulary(polite to "I") + 해라체 HAERACHE (O) 할머니께서 빵을 드십니다. (A grandmother eats bread.) -> special vocabulary(polite to "A grandmother") + 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE(polite to a listener) To use '召し上がる' and '드시다' in other sentences, I eat (object). (O) 私が食べる。= 내가 먹다. -> 해라체 HAERACHE (O) 私が食べます。= 내가 먹습니다. -> 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE(polite to a listener) (X) 私が召し上がる。= 내가 드시다. -> special vocabulary(polite to "I") + 해라체 HAERACHE (X) 私が召し上がります。= 내가 드십니다. -> special vocabulary(polite to "I") + 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE(polite to a listener) Our customer eats (object). (O but not polite enough) お客さんが食べる。= 손님께서 먹다. -> 해라체 HAERACHE (O but not polite enough) お客さんが食べます。= 손님께서 먹습니다. -> 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE(polite to a listener) (O) お客さんが召し上がる。= 손님께서 드시다. -> special vocabulary(polite to "customer") + 해라체 HAERACHE (O) お客さんが召し上がります。= 손님께서 드십니다. -> special vocabulary(polite to "customer") + 하십시오체 HASHIPSIOCHE(polite to a listener) It's so complicated concept so I explained very very very simply(?). Korean grammar is extremely difficult even though its letters, Hangul, are incredibly easy.(even for Koreans lol) Thank you for reading this looooooong difffficult grammar stuff! XD

Happy 1st advent, it was interesting hearing about the language family tree of how languages are connected, it is the same with the germanic languages, of how they are connected, like, if you know swedish, you will already know all the scandinavian languages and as well german.

As a person who had give up learning Japanese, this video make me want to learn it again. Am I fcking lucky when found this video?

Mình là người việt nam,mình đang học tiếng nhật và mình rất thích tiếng nhật vì từ vựng tiếng nhật đa số đọc theo âm hán, phát âm na ná với ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ của mình làm mình có cảm giác ngôn ngữ rất tốt, khác với tiếng anh mình phải chật vật để có cảm giác từ. Cám ơn vì video của bạn đã đem lại những thông tin hữu ích

I'm learning Japanese and Chinese but Chinese not as seriously, I study Chinese only using pinyin for now, I'm not very interested on reading in Chinese but I do read in Japanese

Thanks for your videos Tim You are truly an inspiration for us language lovers! I am from Brazil, besides Portuguese I am able to speak English and Italian (and some Spanish of course, but I don't put that one on my resume, lmao) But I am currently studying German and Russian I tried Korean for a year, but hadn't much progress in almost a year studying 5x a week It's just a steep language, you know? The sentence order is tricky for my brain, I mean, German is also complicated in this aspect, but not as much as Korean. I read that Chinese use a sentence structure more similar to the western (SVO), I wonder if you have less struggle when I start learning. My dream is to be able to speak those 3 asian languages (Japanese, Chinese and Korean), but I currenctly only know basic Korean. I liked the fact that you mentioned the Brazilian music and literature in your video talking about the Russian interview, I truly believe that you need to connect with the culture before trying to learn a new language, that's why I started learning Korean in the first place, I just love the Korean movies. English is a language I never studied formally, I just got from videos talking about interesting topics here on UKposts. So yeah, I am 30 years old, and I am sure I gonna keep studying languages for the rest of my life It's an awesome process, and completely opens your mind, just with English I was able to have a good conversation with foreigners (even a German couple I meet here in Brazil, when I was visiting the city of Curitiba), I can only imagine when I reach a conversational level in more languages, the amount of content I will be able to watch, conversations I will be able to have and so much more opportunities I have a list of 10 languages I want to reach conversational level (Like a B1 or B2 at least) and others I want to give it a try just for fun, just the "tourist" level (kinda like A2), so there is a long road ahead. PS: Your portuguese is GREAT, for real

Solute to your amount of knowledge!

Koreanic language family contains Japonic or vise versa, still there is a lot of discussion about it. I believe, at least, they have common ancestor Korean kids can just easily learn Japanese just by watching anime but same thing never happen with other languages(like Chinese, Vietnamese, English)

I'm South korean who was in Vietnam for 10 years. And also I'm learning Japanese and Chinese. This video is so helpful for me to understand why I feel easier to learn Asian language than Spanish. so I gave up learning Spanish lol😂

I would like your thoughts on whether we should learn, one language at a time? Is it best to feel we achieve a proficient level in one language before moving on to another one? I find that I always wish to keep up with multiple languages, but I don't progress as mucha s I want, and i wonder if its because of my process?

Great job Sir 👍

I'm pretty fluent in Japanese since I lived in Japan 2014-early 2020, and I took a college class in Chinese almost 12 years ago. I also studied a tiny bit of Korean before visiting in 2018. I think if I wanted to learn a language beyond the basics other than Japanese, I would do Korean, since the grammar is similar enough and hangeul took no time to learn.

Cháu đang học tiếng Trung và tiếng Nhật và cảm thấy rõ tiếng Trung cháu học rất nhanh và phát âm rất tốt. Tiếng Nhật thì chậm hơn một chút bởi vì hơn 90% cấu trúc của tiếng nhật hoàn toàn khác với tiếng Việt. Bởi vậy coi video cháu hiểu rõ chú nói gì. Video hay như vậy mà tại sao lại có bình luận tiêu cực. Cháu khuyên chú nên bỏ qua họ và đừng tốn thời gian trả lời với họ. Họ mang năng lượng tiêu cực không đáng để chú quan tâm!

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I've studied Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Vietnamese and they have helped me learn each other to an extent. Hopefully I'll be able to get to Korean before too long.

Currently learning Mandarin Chinese and my plan is to learn: Mandarin Chinese 🇹🇼 Japanese 🇯🇵 Korean 🇰🇷 Spanish 🇪🇸 But I wouldn't mind learning Vietnamese too

Vietnamese and Cantonese have the most similarities