Do Koreans, the Chinese and Japanese all speak the same language?

Question

I watch a Korean soap opera (Precious You reading the english subtitles) and it just sounds the same as japanese to my ears and also I was wondering if the Chinese speak that language too?

Answer 1

No, they're different at all. All these languages have a common linguistic point: their words are monosyllable.

Japanese can understand till 80% how the Chinese writes but in conversational language they couldn't! It's because Japanese in Kanji is original 80% of Chinese.

On the contrary, Korean script is made by a Korean emperor in the past and doesn't depend on Chinese nor Japanese in writing neither in speaking.

In brief, three all never understand each other while speaking; Chinese and Japanese could take dialogue in writing only and could understand each other but not much - about 80% of what they write in Kanji.

Answer 2

Absolutely NOT! Haha...



Although when written, Japanese and Chinese characters may coincide in meaning as some characters in Japanese are "borrowed" from Mandarin [language of Chinese]... However, the same character, with the same meaning in both languages have different pronunciation!



Where as Korean is COMPLETELY different.



Regards, Aidan.

Answer 3

Speaking Japanese & Loving Japanese Culture!

Answer 4

Chinese people's native language is Chinese, Japan's native language is Japanese, and Korea native language is Korean. All the languages have different writing styles, but they are all similar one way or another. The two closest I would have to say is Chinese and Japanese. Kanji is basically taken from Chinese.

Answer 5

Sure - they all speak English.



Okay, while English may be a viable second language for most of Asia, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are all different languages. They are similar to each other (in the way that Italian, French, German, and English are all similar to each other), so that might be why they sound the same to your ears, but they are different languages.

Answer 6

No you have actually four language that it could likely be:



Shows from Korea - Korean

... Japan - Japanese

... Chinese (Mainland) - Mandarin

... Hong Kong - Cantonese

Answer 7

no. chinese speak mandarin or kantonese, japanese people speak... well... japanese, and koreans speak... korean!

they don't sound the same. well not to me cuz i speak japanese and i'm 1/2 japanese.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

nope even though the three may share some of the same characters derived from ancient chinese.

Answer 10

Some could speak all of those languages.... but for most, the answer is NO!

Answer 11

No, there are many different languages in each of the countries.

Answer 12

no. Chinese people speak Japanese, Japanese people speak Korean and Korean people speak Chinese

Answer 13

Nope chine-Chinese,japan-japanese,and not sure of korea but they sound simmilar to us and all of them use Lines for writing so somewhere they have some relation

Answer 14

No, they're all different.

Answer 15

Definatly not!

Answer 16

They are all different.

Answer 17

it's something wrong with your ears...