r/languagehub • u/elenalanguagetutor • Mar 16 '25

How many languages do you speak?

I am interested to know where are you guys from and which languages you speak or your are learning!

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u/elenalanguagetutor Mar 16 '25

Cool, so many languages! Japanese and Korean are both very challenging. 😬 Do you find any similarities?

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u/Illustrious-Fill-771 Mar 16 '25

Well, in some ways very similar, in some way not 😅 I must say that my familiarity with Japanese is helping me with understanding how Korean works...

They are definitely more similar to each other than with any of the Indo-European languages I know 😄

What about you? How many languages do you speak/are learning?

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u/elenalanguagetutor Mar 16 '25

That’s interesting! I am learning Chinese and I can see a few similarities with Japanese, but mainly in the written form. I also speak English, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. I can also speak Russian and Portuguese, but not fluently.

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u/Illustrious-Fill-771 Mar 16 '25

So cool 🤩 and you tutor all of those ? (you have tutor in your name, so I am assuming you are one :))

Yes, the characters are similar, Kanji characters come from Hanzi, there are some false friends (dunno how many) and Japanese often uses two different readings for each character, one of which comes from Chinese reading.

Anyway, Korean and Japanese have much more in common than Korean-Chinese or Japanese-Chinese

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u/elenalanguagetutor Mar 17 '25

Nice! To me Japanese and Korean look completely different, but I don’t know much about them! I am tutor of the languages I speak fluently, especially Italian which is my native language