Korean here. What does Korean sound like to non-Koreans? Can you distinguish it from other Asian languages like Japanese or Chinese?
Korean here. What does Korean sound like to non-Koreans...
Jayden Scott
Adrian Hill
It sounds harsher than Japanese or Chinese. I can recognize it instantly, but I live near a bunch of korean immigrants.
Jason Sanchez
a lot of 요’s and 숩니다’s and 합니다’s. yes i can tell the difference.
Elijah Kelly
chances are I'd think it's chinese desu
Jackson Phillips
Usually I can tell people are speaking Korean if I go through the process of "does it sound like Chinese or Japanese?", if the answer is no then it's Korean.
I know there's SEA languages but those sound distinctively different.
Leo Baker
It's less repetitive than chinese but when compared to japanese it sounds more monotone and boring
Joshua Lewis
Easy to differentiate from Japanese, which is phonetically simpler.
Not so easy to tell apart from Chinese, but I still can do it.
Ryder Perry
I would not be able to tell it apart from Japanese if I didn't watch so much anime. In other words I can only recognize Korean by thinking: "Oh it has no words that I know so it can't be Japanese, ergo it's Korean"
Joshua Williams
Her body like a fridge
Parker Bailey
I speak Japanese but was able to distinguish between Japanese, Chinese and Korean even before I started studying Japanese.
Korean to me sounds horrible, but then so do all Asian languages other than Japanese. I'd say it's still not as bad as Chinese, but almost there. For some reason, men speaking Korean don't sound as bad as women (which often works the other way around in other languages).
Ethan Long
chuga chuk chuga uuga buuga chuk chuga imnida sumnida
Evan Foster
>Not so easy to tell apart from Chinese
Really, Chinese?? Isn't it far closer to Japanese? Chinese has a very unique sound to it I think, it's not even like a human language.
Gabriel Wood
what does that even mean?
Nathan Jenkins
Sounds much softer than Chinese. Chinese is easily recognizable. If it sounds like "ching chong chang" then it's Cantonese. If it sounds like "shway shway shway" then it's Mandarin.
Korean and Japanese sound similar but Japanese is more staccato and basic-sounding (only 5 vowel sounds). If it has more sounds and variations then it's Korean.
Logan Rivera
>chuk chuga imnida sumnida
kek
Dylan Thomas
OP here. I think Korean sounds pretty different from either Japanese and Chinese, but if it's closer to one then I definitely think it sounds more like Japanese. Some regional accents sound a lot like Japanese. Look up 경상도 사투리 on Youtube. Example:
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Zachary Davis
Her body looks like a fridge .
Angel Sanchez
That's funny because I think Brazilian Portuguese sounds like shit
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Jayden Morgan
What I mean is that Japanese is very simpler in comparation to both Korean and Chinese, as all its syllables are open or end in N, has only five vowels and very few consonants.
Julian Reed
how how? is she rectangular, no. does she have a door, no.
Luis Johnson
Chinese mixed with japanese
John Williams
>germans
Jacob Jackson
It means he wants to put his spotted dick in it.
Brody Bennett
Ryan Ross
Among the East Asian languages...
Japanese sounds the best for speaking.
Korean sounds the best for singing.
Chinese sounds the best for reciting poems.
Adrian Long
>german humour
Blake Ward
HYUUUUUUUUN JOOOOONAYYYY ANNYONG CHOK UUU WONGO BOZZO UUU
Julian Morris
This. Korean is like the missing link between Chinese and Japanese.
Colton Fisher
So easy
Japanese
>always day neh, desuneh
Koreans
>Hasayo, hae, cho sounds (always make o shape with mouth)
Chinese
>Zhezhe sounds
Grayson Flores
I know Japanese and some Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is an instant giveaway with the retroflex sounds like ch and zh and the tonal system.
Korean sounds like Japanese with more consonants and less vowels.
Asher Thomas
Go to bed already
Ayden Morales
TOROO CHO TOT TOYOO DAR CHOYUUU CHOROOOOOO
Mason Turner
What was she thinking when she took this pic? Flat as a fucking board, pathetic
Daniel Taylor
wtf, why don't you just explain it to me. why would you want to put a spotted dick in a fridge?
Caleb Taylor
Why this thread make me laugh
Ryan Brooks
>with more consonants and less vowels.
Korean has more vowels.
Dominic King
brudi ich kann nicht schlafen bis ich den witz verstehe
Carter Collins
It sounds like a fusion of Cantonese and Japanese to me.
Jose Evans
I meant more consonants as in words can actually end in a consonant and you can have sequences like -lk-
Ryan Reyes
very easily, even before I became a K-pop fan
Jonathan King
my gf got into cooking korean food and the names for it all sound like somebody scatting or like the lyrics to a hansen song
it's like "bipmbap" "gimbop". It's like a language formed out of beatboxing.
Michael Ward
>Can you distinguish it from other Asian languages like Japanese or Chinese?
Yes, but I've had ex gfs that were Korean and Japanese.
Jose Thompson
Sam?
Brandon Cruz
Syllables?
Michael Evans
>K-pop fan
Joshua Brown
I keked, please kill me...
Chase Brooks
I have no idea what korean sounds, it's like that psy sound? if so it's the same as chinese and japanese
Oliver Harris
chinese is just annoying korean is pretty tolerable so is japanese it's easy to distinguish korean from the rest because of certain words and the way they say things (hamnida, sumunida, imnida)
Matthew Parker
>I meant more consonants as in words can actually end in a consonant
It's basically possible in Japanese too, because a lot of times the end vowel is swallowed
Dominic Morgan
Nobody cares about korea/koreans. Korea is japanese clay filled with black chinese gays
Austin Gonzalez
still nobody has explained the fridge joke to me
Jose Cox
based
Josiah Sullivan
Kinda like Chinese but in a polite Japanese tone and very whiny.
Jackson Cook
She's flat, no arse no tits
Gabriel Reyes
kek
Cooper Gonzalez
Korean is the comfiest Asian language for music.
Austin Green
>I have no idea what korean sounds
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Henry Rivera
pretty much. also korean sounds like someone is trying to hock up a loogie
Jonathan Ramirez
nida〜
nida〜
nida〜
Lucas Brown
no that's not it, you're just making fun of me, if the explanation was this simple someone would have said it earlier
John Cruz
sounds like complete shit mate sorry not sorry
Jeremiah Turner
Good for you.
Zachary Jenkins
No you're not autistic, stop larping
Gavin Thompson
This. A lot of Sino-Korean words sounds similar to Cantonese. I think Korean sounds like Cantonese spoken with a Japanese inflection.
Aiden Hall
Jordan Robinson
I don't claim to be autistic, I just want someone to tell me how a women looks like a fridge, because to me she looks nothing like a fridge, was is wrong with all of you
Jayden Lopez
Aaron Turner
For me it could be any asian language, really couldn't tell if it was indonesian, vietnamese, etc...
Camden Williams
>Chinese sounds the best for reciting poems.
Nigga what?
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Chinese sounds horrible in everything.
Tyler Gonzalez
nice one
Chase Morgan
I don't get it either, she looks more like a table
Chase Gomez
>Korean sounds the best for singing.
Hudson Morgan
Um, fragile ego much?
Sebastian Wilson
go die with your shit clown meme, monkey
Nicholas Thomas
Projecting much?
Gabriel Green
Yes, Japanese is very obvious due to the similar sounds to Spanish and the constant "tte", "sh", and "n" sounds.
Korean has these bubbly sounds like "ppa", "ba", "cho", that sound somewhat smooth or cute? and I suppose it's the reason why their pop went on a surge of popularity in recent years.
And Chinese sounds as lovely as dishes smashing against the floor or as nails scratching a blackboard. youtube.com
>If it sounds like "ching chong chang" then it's Cantonese. If it sounds like "shway shway shway" then it's Mandarin.
Very informative lad.
Chase Miller
Insta-reply with a ego-stroker? Yeah, you're projecting
Joshua Johnson
No
Kayden Brown
see the similarities? because I don't.
Cooper Jenkins
it's called envy
Luke Miller
Jack Thomas
It's not like there is a wide variety of euphonious Asian languages to choose from.
Elijah Robinson
what is called envy?
Henry Thomas
...
Matthew Smith
The original fridgeposter was clearly misusing the fridge meme. I stand with autistic German. OP image is a stick (I like stick). Fridge implies broad shoulders and probably a broad waist/hips too
David Powell
Japanese songs tend to get repetitive due to the limited number of sounds in the Japanese language. Chinese songs are... in Chinese.
Liam Thomas
I also stand with autistic german. She is not a fridge at all. There is no door
Dylan Gomez
thanks for your support. but what even is the fridge meme, I never heard of it.
David Allen
Jayden Powell
i wonder if she will ever know some anons from various countries once spent time discussing whether or not she looks like a fridge. What a strange time to be alive.
Adrian Ortiz
Korean sounds like Japanese but more aggressive (guttural and stronger intonation). Chinese sounds alien.
Josiah Barnes
I've played Sleeping Dogs before and the Chinese spoken in that game literally sounds like "ching chang chong"
Jackson Brown
ok that makes more sense
Carter Reyes
koreans sound like whining children at all times
Brody Wood
>What does Korean sound like to non-Koreans
like korean idk, I grew up in an area/neighborhood with a fuckton of korean diaspora so it sounds normal to me
>Can you distinguish it from other Asian languages like Japanese or Chinese?
Yes, again because of my environment growing up.
Zachary Garcia
New Jersey?