hi, i am new to 4ch, and this question has been bugging me for quite some time, so i hope you guys can answer it.
to my ears, the asian languages--chinese, korean, and japanese--they all sound alike to me. i want to be able to tell if someone is speaking japanese to someone who is speaking chinese. so is there any clues to tell like verbally what language someone is speaking?
thank you.
Chinese is very tonal and usually loud
Korean is usually more monotone with alot of "da" and "uhl" sounds that are unique to the language
Japanese is spoken extremely fast when heard by western people and has a very sharp consonant-vowel pattern in every word
Chinese sounds very little like Japanese. For Korean, listen lots of 'nida' and 'dokdo is corea'.
Tonal, obnoxious and monosyllabic: Chinese (or Vietnamese but that sounds more like whining actually)
Look for politeness (desu, masu) or stuff like neeee and yo if it looks like friends speaking: Japanese
Nida: Korean
how can you say a language is obnoxious? i think that is just downright disrespect. the chinese have thousand of years of history, and is considered one of the great ancient civilization, who are you to say it is obnoxious?
im sorry if i am not answering the question, but i just need to say that #4 has no right to say chinese, or any other language, is obnoxious.
you try learning it and speaking it fluently. jackass.
>>5
Ever heard of a 'Shift' key? It makes big letters.
>>5
i am chinese, and i know chinese, and i have to say, hes got a point, btw, depending on which dialect youre talking about, cantonese, mandarin, shanghainese, etc. they can sound mad obnoxious and loud, im mandarin, but in my school theres a huge amount of cantonese people, and i look cantonese, and, this kid comes up to me, starts talking cantonese to me, it was the first time i ever heard cantonese, and it gave me this mad aggressive feeling to want to punch him in the face, it IS obnoxious, it annoyed the crap outta me! cantonese i think anyway, but i eventually got used to it....though, i still kinda get that angry feeling for some odd reason. "HAM SAP POK'GAI HAKGUAI!!!!!" shudder, but anyway, even if it isnt cantonese, chinese overall does sound obnoxious sometimes
oh yeah, my dads thai too, thai language is freakin loud
>>5
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>>5
Way to take things seriously on the internet, dude
Chinese sounds like: ping song er lu ren shi yang li
Korean sounds like: apparangnida ssiyongyo eunyo kkida prakssoyo
Japanese sounds like: misete made desu sekka kaminara inu yomi no kumi
The differences are more than obvious. Only a retard can't tell the difference.
>>12 Only a retard can't tell the difference
Or someone not versed in Asian languages.
In my book, someone not versed in languages is a retard. If you can't tell the dirrerence between German and Chinese, you're fucked up. Or Japanese and Chinese which are a million miles away from each other anyway. Simple as that.
Sorry, I meant difference.
Somone i know think japanese sounds like "chi ni hai ko no do"
orz+lol+XD
remember, japanese words cannot end with a consonant ("n" is the exception)
They can when you pronounce certain words (the most famous being "desu").
Couldn't 'Hai' be はい or ハイ？ Or do you mean that it is not in any real words?
>>20
hai is the most valid word of them all; I was pointing out that the others are valid syllables
Of course, I was using "desu" just as an example.
When you hear people talk and it sounds like they're trying to spit, it's Korean.
when you hear kekeke, it is <ヽ`ω´> nida!
<丶｀∀´>謝罪と補償を要求ﾆﾀﾞ
just listen to the speech for a few minutes. it's pretty easy.
in japanese theres no l's and you will hear alot of shta[shita] and mass[masu] and dess[desu]
in korean theres alot of mida's nida's and dayo's
in chinese leasten for the tone you will see how the pitch of voice changes quite often with in the voice yeh chinese is one of the tonal languages so it gets real diverse when talking and doesnt really have unique endings like japanese and korean
for japanese what youhear is what you get but the clue to finding the difference is all in the endings of there sentences..if oyu can tell when a sentence is done >_>
korean sounds a lot like japanese except it has lots of thick l sounds. chinese is like chiibai chiibai meyyo, fairly recognizable.
difficulter question: how to tell the difference between cantonese and mandarin.
Mandarin is clipped but squishy
Cantonese sounds like a dog barking.
English sounds like:warai wor tellabaou endah massulu
Germany:nahha ihhi nohho bindo shuuulihe bain danm
Italian:mannma cantsu ooonen mittarrlino!
23 Name: Anonymous : 2006-03-24 08:18 ID:Heaven [Del]
When you hear people talk and it sounds like they're trying to spit, it's Korean.
dude... u basically said that ppl swear to u a lot
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Just how can a language be "Tonal". I was under the impression it was more about words...