>>4423767>I remember someone saying that Korean is copypaste of japanese, but they skipped all the retarded parts like 3 different ways of writing etc.It's more like this: both Japan and Korea (or Yamato and Goryeo) had their own flavors of retarded adaptations of Chinese for a long time. Eventually Korea was like "What if we had a writing system that matched our spoken language, and was super easy for the common man to learn, because literacy is cool?"
On the other hand, Japan was like "Naw it's cool just fuck our shit up", but then some aristocratic women kept writing cursive and eventually it became accepted as its own thing, separate from the wannabe-Chinese. Someone asked "Wait doesn't that make things more complicated?" and the other Heian aristocrats responded "Where do you think we are?"
I'm misrepresenting it slightly, because the Japanese "Wait doesn't that..." adaptation of kana happened over a few centuries, prior to 1100 (about?), and the Korean "What if we fixed it?" happened in the 1400's. So Korea put up with their retarded adaption of Chinese for longer before fixing it, whereas Japan went about making things more complicated as soon as they could. Sasuga Nihon.
Korean reading and writing is way easier to pick up initially, but the grammar is still as bullshit as Japanese, but that does me if you know Japanese already it is a leg up (and vice versa). Then as
>>4423799 said, there is still a residual vocabulary root in Chinese that helps to be aware of if you want to get advanced.
>>4426283As a Burger who has picked up two other languages to functional levels, I am always ashamed at how my fellow Americans perceive what it is like to know another language.
