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  • Learning Curves: Chinese vs. Japanese | Sinosplice: Life

    From the page: "Both have insane writing systems and lots of cultural background to learn, so those basically cancel each other out. Any language requires lots of vocabulary memorization. Japanese has loads of loanwords from English, but really learning to use the loanwords like a native... more

    Reviewed by gigijin Jun 25 2008, 01:14pm ( 5 reviews ) • sinosplice.com

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  • Rated by neoauteur on Nov 01, 10:41am

    I hate grammar; learning Chinese seems more appealing.

  • Rated by Saoka on May 07 2009, 4:41pm

    It's true--Chinese gets easy to pronounce after a little while, but the grammar gets harder as you study. I've gotten to the point where over the phone, people think I'm a native-born Chinese...until they realize I'm using verrrrrry simple language. Now they think I'm a native-born Chinese who happens to be kinda stupid. Yay?

  • Rated by edwinpeng on Jun 26 2008, 1:26am

    thanks for the subjective comparison of japanese and chinese.

  • Rated by wizzledizzle on Jun 25 2008, 2:35pm

    Japanese pronunciation wasn't hard. Helps that I know Spanish, which is somewhat similar, but always had trouble with grammar especially them conjugations. Of course, never had a chance to take more than a semester in Japanese to my sadness. Well now I'm learning Chinese by myself and yes, pronunciation is very hard. I can do the tones right if I say it slowly and character by character. But when it comes time to say one word or worst, a sentence, things go awry. Maybe I could sneak in Japanese with Chinese. Gonna need like a support group or a lang exch partner for that ... but I'm willing to go for it

  • Rated by gigijin on Jun 25 2008, 1:14pm

    From the page: "Both have insane writing systems and lots of cultural background to learn, so those basically cancel each other out. Any language requires lots of vocabulary memorization. Japanese has loads of loanwords from English, but really learning to use the loanwords like a native speaker instead of a crutch is not so easy to do, so I left that factor out as well. For me, the major points of comparison come down to just pronunciation and grammar."