Introduction:

The Japanese and the Korean languages are geographically close. There are around 77.2 million Korean speakers and about 125 million Japanese speakers in the world. The two languages share similarities in their grammar and loanwords. They are also phonetically with similar vowel sounds. They do share some common vocabulary. They both have different writing systems, the similarities often make it easier to learn the other language if you know one of them.

Both are wonderful languages. So deciding amongst them can be difficult. It is a hard choice. Learning a second language is not easy. You have to put in a lot of time and effort. You spend days searching for resources, learning them, practicing them, and sometimes you also pay to learn a language. It shouldn’t go wasted.  When you are selecting a language you have to consider the advantages it. Where would it be useful and is it useful for you? Considering all these factors you have to decide.

So now let us compare both languages from another perspective.

  Economy: japan has a larger economy and a greater number of Japanese-speaking populations as compared to Korea. Though South Korea does have a good economy of many products worldwide.

• Level of difficulty: the level of difficulty for anything depends on a person. For some, it may be difficult, for some it may be easy. There is no measure for this level. The level of difficulty depends on your efforts. If you do something consistently you will find ease in it.  Though it depends on every individual there are certain factors you can consider while deciding to choose a language.

If you are planning to learn both together I wouldn’t suggest that. Learn both but one at a time. So now which one to give priority to?

• Writing style:

1. The Korean writing system is called Hangul. It can be mastered within 30 minutes because it is very logical. Hangul has 19 consonants and 21 vowels. It makes learning easier. Writing Korean is simple. It is just like building blocks.
2. The Japanese writing style is called Kanji. It is very important to learn Kanji in order to learn Japanese. Books, signs, computers all have Kanji in them. There are only 5 vowels in Japanese.

            The Korean language is easier when you look at their writing style.

• Sounds:

There are more sounds in the Korean language as compared to the Japanese language. When you learn the Korean sounds you automatically also learn the Japanese sounds. So Japanese becomes easier in this case.

• Alphabets:

Japanese has 46 letters whereas the Korean language has just 24. So obviously you know which the easier language is in this case.

• Accent: no matter what your accent is, the meaning of the word does not change in Korean as compared to Japanese.

Now it is up to you to consider which language to master. No matter which language you choose you can master it quickly and easily using Multibhashi. Multibhashi is a platform that provides language training with the help of an expert. With expert help, you will be able to master the language easily whether it is Korean or Japanese. You can also refer to these books to learn Japanese and Korean respectively.