How difficult is Korean to learn compared to other languages?

That said, Korean is more difficult to learn (for English speakers) than languages like French or German, simply because the languages are unrelated. When studying German, you’re going to run into the familiar quite frequently, and that helps a lot psychologically.

What is the easiest way to learn Korean for beginners?

Also typing in Korean is really easy to pick up too (I recommend you practise this early so you can use Naver and Daum to look things up). The online Branah keyboard is excellent for this if you don’t have the Korean keyboard set up. I’ve studied over 10 languages and Korean has one of the easiest grammars I’ve ever seen.

Do you need a Korean alphabet to learn Korean?

When browsing a bookstore or a library for Korean language learning materials, you’ll notice that the books that are written on the subject often tend to rely on transliteration. Instead of using the Korean alphabet to teach Korean, words are written up in the Latin script. This is really a shame!

Is there any good material available for learning Korean online?

There is so much good material and online Korean courses available. After popular languages like French, Spanish and German, Korean is up there as one of the languages where good quality resources are abundant and overflowing – both paid and free.

Is Mandarin Chinese a difficult language to learn?

The language is actually easier to acquire than romance tongues like Spanish or French because Mandarin Chinese shares a similar grammatical system with fewer commonly-used words. There is no conjugation in whatever form.

Is Korean phonetics unusual for English speakers?

For English speakers there’s nothing terribly unusual about Korean phonetics. Unlike Arabic and Hebrew there are no guttural sounds. There are no consonant clusters like Georgian or Polish (where you have 4 or more consonants in a row). There are also no tones like many other East Asian languages.

What language do native Chinese speakers learn the fastest?

Native Chinese speakers learn Korean much (much much much much) faster and more easily than native English speakers. Native Japanese speakers learn it fastest, in fact it’s pretty easy for them — they’re cousin languages and the cultures share a lot.