How close are Korean and Chinese (language)?

Question

How close are Korean and Chinese (language)?

Answer 1

i dont know i dont understand any of what each are saying

Answer 2

I believe the Korean Chinese person. I discovered of all the foreigners who can speak Mandarin, the Koreans speak the best, usually it is easier to learn a foreign language that is closer to your mother's tongue or your first language.

Of course there are very talented people, like one time a Romanian guy come up to me and spoke to me in Mandarin, he wants to work in Taiwan or China, I think he can, his Mandarin is very good for foreigners.

Answer 3

As close as apples and oranges. They are not even the same.

Answer 4

Some spoken words are similar having the same root word, and there are a few Chinese Mandarin  characters in common use in Korea. Most of these  shared words are business and religious words. This is true for Japanese and Thai languages as well.  However, Korea's   written language and grammar is  quite different from Mandarin  

Answer 5

It's not very close. Korean has developed its own writing system, so knowing Chinese characters is not as helpful as it once would have been. Sometimes characters are still used along with the Korean writing, but it's not common.

The grammar is different. Chinese is like English. It is a SVO (subject-verb-object) language. Korean is an SOV (subject-object-verb) language, like Turkish and Japanese. Actually, Koreans and Turks are able to learn one another's languages fairly easily, because they are so similar, even though most people are unaware of how similar they are.

Chinese is also a tonal language, while Korean is not.

There are similarities between the language however, most of them are not as significant as people may assume. Knowing Chinese is not really very helpful for someone looking to move on to Korean, and vice versa.

Answer 6

Actually before 1850 korea didn't have a separate language, they used chinese. then, in 1850 a korean emperor (or writer, i don't quite no) created a language based off chinese, so there pretty close.

Answer 7

Rather close. There are certain Korean( Hangul) words/phrases which sound similar to Chinese( Hanja ) .Example, the Korean 'san' for 'mountain' sounds similar to the Chinese word of mountain, which is 'shan'. Another example, the Korean 'do' for 'island' sounds similar to the Chinese equivalent of island, which is 'dao'. I'm not very sure if these are coincidences or whatnot though.

But then, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and even Vietnamese do sound similar sometimes. After all, they all probably had some sort of influence on each other. For example, 'thank you' in Vietnamese is  'Gam Ern', which also sounds like Chinese for ' thankfulness'.Hope i was of help.

Answer 8

not close at all

Answer 9

China has many languages.

Answer 10

Korean is a new language. It was invented like 25 years ago ( im not sure about the number but i dont think its more than that) Most old ppl in korea still speak Chinese and most of old signs in old temples in korea are chinese but apparently, new generation koreans cant speak chinese at all but some of my friends say that some words have the similarity in sounds however, those who speak chinese and korean dont understand each other

Answer 11

It's true that Korean language originally came from Chinese. But nowadays Koreans can't understand Chinese (well, unless they learn it) and Chinese speakers can't understand Korean. (Except for the swear words. Those are international.) They're completely different languages.

Answer 12

They're very different.

I study Korean here in China, all my class mates are Chinese and they struggle as much as me. But it's a winning battle.

I wouldn't really consider them similar at all, although they do come from the same roots.

Answer 13

I am a Chinese. I can not understand Korean at all.

Answer 14

I just know the names of people and places look the same in Chinese fonts, but are pronounced differently, the rest I heard they are closer to Japanese language than Chinese.

Answer 15

They're completely different, though Koreans used Hanja (Chinese characters) in ancient times.

Chinese grammar is SVO, Korean is SOV.

Korean grammar is 90% similar to Japanese though.