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   ӄɨӄɨ88 :ghost_heart2: (kiki88@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:51:13 JST ӄɨӄɨ88 :ghost_heart2:
   Anyone speak Jap? This true?
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     BattleDwarfGimli (battledwarfgimli@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:51:09 JST BattleDwarfGimli

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     It took me almost two years to get the accent down, but now I can confuse Koreans on the phone.
     
     The written language <한글> was designed to be learned, by the court of King Sejong, who was fed up with his courtiers and lords pretending they couldn't read his proclamations in Chinese (the Latin of the Orient).
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     Special Guest Star (s2208@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:51:09 JST Special Guest Star

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     Korean is the prettiest writing
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     mothersmurfer (mothersmurfer@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:51:10 JST mothersmurfer

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     @BattleDwarfGimli @1137 @Cough @KiKi88 I was surprised at how easy written Korean is to read. Really a well thought out writing system. I was able to read the bus schedule and get around pretty well. Apparently, I had a shit-ass 'Merican accent though, because people could hardly understand me.
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     rs6 (1137@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:51:11 JST rs6

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     @BattleDwarfGimli @Cough @KiKi88 See, told you he knew Korean better than I do, and I only know a tiny bit of spoken Japanese, can't read it at all.
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     Korean is easy to read. I can teach you in 90 minutes if you have half a brain. Understanding it though, is a whole different monster. It is incredibly complex. Give me three weeks and I can get you functionally polite and teach you to ride the subway without getting lost. Used to do it all the time for incoming officers at G5.
     
     I can read about 30% of Japanese - less these days because I just don't have any practice anymore. I am enjoying the hell out of the HBO series "Shogun". They used proper Japanese throughout, as far as I can tell.
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     BattleDwarfGimli (battledwarfgimli@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:51:12 JST BattleDwarfGimli

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     Korean's general order of syntax is similar, but it is actually closer to Mongolian or Turkish, than to Japanese.
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     rs6 (1137@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:51:13 JST rs6

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     @KiKi88 Yes, it's pretty accurate. Korean has the exact same grammatical structure. The verb is always last, and verb conjugation is everything. You can essentially stack nouns in front of the verb as in this example, then conjugate the verb and it is coherent. @Cough speaks Japanese and @BattleDwarfGimli speaks Korean better than I do - they can confirm.