Are East Asian languages really that hard?

[@gowithkob]

Thanks for the interview Tim! I had a good time chatting with you...also great editing!

[@polyglotdreams]

Thanks, it was a real pleasure.

[@yorgunsamuray]

Indonesian word building seemed like kanji to me. There’s this root combined with affixes of specified purposes that remind me of kanji radicals.

[@miming9409]

For the Vietnamese people, generally, it's so much easier to learn chinese, there r similarities between them,60%-70% Of Vietnamese vocabulary had signifficant chinese influenced and both r tonal languages.

[@polyglotdreams]

Yes, exactly 💯

[@DoDong-pn5yg]

I met Parham in Vietnam, he really good at a lot of language he speak at, especially Thai, Chinese, Spanish. Now I'm in Toronto Canada, it is so inspiring to see someone you know on the Internet. It inspire me to start my own channel too

[@polyglotdreams]

Yes, he is very good..

[@josecarlosbayoncueto4689]

I 'm a spaniard learning indonesian , and I think for asean languages is good to know some Mnemonics ( memorization techniques ) such as memorizing by association and " the memory Palace technique " and others , my brothers also studies japanese he likes the language and the japanese culture but to memorize vocabulary and verbs he uses Mnemonics and it works. You learn faster.

[@DesembriarIlhami]

Menarik. Apa motivasi anda belajar bahasa Indonesia?

[@josecarlosbayoncueto4689]

@@DesembriarIlhami untuk hobi dan karena saya suka orang Indonesia

[@polyglotdreams]

All the best in your studies

[@chrisbunka]

When Tim started studying Indonesian, I’m not even sure there were electronic dictionaries in Japan in the early 80s. At least we had electronic dictionaries in Japan in the 90s. Although I picked up one Indonesian textbook at a Japanese bookstore in the late 90s, there weren’t many other readily available resources lying around.

[@polyglotdreams]

Yes ... so true

[@alanguages]

A big reason I encourage people to learn root words and affixes for languages. They augment the vocabulary comprehension exponentially.

[@polyglotdreams]

For sure

[@HCRAYERT.]

Aka learn Latin.

[@Tiaimo]

His pronunciation on Thai number 20 is like a native. เก่งมากครับ สมแล้วที่อยู่ไทย 5 ปี

[@Spinner773]

I'd love to learn Khmer one day when I'm a polyglot big brain genius. Vietnamese too. I'm very intrigued to visit Vietnam and Cambodia.

[@YouTubePrivate-hm9xq]

My favorite thing about the Khmer language are the complex consonant clusters that it has. It has consonant clusters that doesn’t even exist in English. Like P’k, P’d, P’n, P’th, T’r, T’ng, T’m, T’p, K’r, K’nh, K’d, K’p, K’th, S’kh, S’d, S’nh and so many more. Vietnamese, Thai, Lao don’t have that. Which makes Khmer quiet easy to notice

[@Spinner773]

​@@KZbinPrivate-hm9xqthat's interesting to learn, thanks!

[@miming9409]

Great contents as always ❤❤❤

[@polyglotdreams]

Thanks so much 🙏

[@ariefakonx8491]

We as Asian Indonesians, if we want to do business or chat with other Asian friends, the language we speak is English, except for Malaysians, Singaporeans or Malays.

[@KhomAsian]

00:24 haha how many Asian language that he can speak? he can even speak Khmer language which is quite difficult to pronounce for European!

[@polyglotdreams]

Yes

[@belstar1128]

its really hard to learn all the vocabulary since they got almost nothing in common with west European languages even stuff like Hungarian is easier at the start because it has a few loan words and the writing system is easy. languages like Indonesian are not that hard i would put it on par with something like Serbian not the easiest language you can learn as a west European but a lot easier than the languages from the mainland .but if you are used to these languages you can spot the similarities so its going to be similar to learning European languages if you are truly fluent in one of these languages. they say they are all from different language families but they definitely got a lot in common. i personally got good enough at the Austronesian languages to the point were when i tried to learn Malagasy (i know Madagascar is in Africa but its an Austronesian language) i really noticed that knowing some Indonesian helped me a lot because the lessons i found online for that language were really bad so i don't think i could have learned it if this was going to be my 3rd language. i had a similar problem with the odia language from india i couldn't find any decent lessons online but because i had been learning Hindi for a few years already i was able to understand a lot more. unfortunately i have been doing a bad job with languages like Thai Khmer Chinese and Vietnamese because they are too different and while i noticed a lot of Chinese influence that doesn't really help because my Chinese is very poor because i hate reading it and the tones still give me problems. i made decent progress with Japanese since that language just just everywhere now and a lot of my friends are learning it while they have no interest in other Asian languages but Japanese seems to have almost nothing in common with other languages apart from modern English loan words and i also failed at Korean and i don't really know why i am just unable to remember all the vocabulary that is all different from other languages .again if i learn a European language its usually going to have a lot of words i already know even the ones that are considered strange like Basque or Hungarian. the only one that i found very hard is Armenian i have the same issues with it as i have with Korean just so much vocabulary i have to remember that only appears in this language. at least as far as i know maybe there are some endangered languages in Siberia that have a lot in common with Korean and Japanese .

[@polyglotdreams]

Take a look at my video showing the similarities among All versions of Chinese, especially Cantonese and Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. Also I made a video showing the grammatical similarities among Chinese languages with Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Indonesian and Malay.

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

Japanese has a lot of borrowed words from English and Middle Chinese

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

Also why do you seperate the Western European from the Eastern European languages?

[@belstar1128]

@@cheerful_crop_circle eastern European languages are usually just harder. i don't want to waste time naming all the language families that i think are hard and easy .

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

@@belstar1128 Yeah , but because of the Indo-European connection , it would be much much easier for someone from Eastern Europe to learn a Western European language than the other way around. And that is because languages such as English, Spanish and German are pretty popular to learn at school or as an option somewhere else

[@elvanfreddy8268]

Ayo berkunjung ke Indonesia. Kamu akan lebih mudah mempelajari Bahasa Indonesia jika kamu berada di Indonesia ❤❤ Kenali dan nikmati budaya kami yang beragam 😊😊 🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@Budismo7917]

I think every asia language could change the way you think because communication with others that arent your native desdence might be interesting specially those language from the south east asia.🇹🇭🇻🇳🇰🇭 but i think 🇯🇵and🇨🇳 it could be interesting.

[@corprist]

❤❤❤

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

I know Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian very fluently, they can be very easy if you master letters, words, and grammar.

[@polyglotdreams]

Great achievement 👏

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Arigatougozaimasu

[@zane17760]

我很享受學習中文。 很快，我就會學習日文。

[@bonqyflowers8882]

Love Laos and Thai languages.

[@twenty7395]

People from mainland Southeast Asia speak what sounds like Chinese while people from Southeast Asian Islands sound like they speak Spanish or Italian. that's how I differentiate them😅

[@polyglotdreams]

That is a bit unusual 🤣

[@dennysutanto8719]

I'm Indonesian but I found Thai and Mandarin easier for us compared to Japanese and Koreans although Thai you need to have extra effort on learn the Alphabet and Chinese also have extra effort to learn whole diferrent characters.... Vietnamese language the grammar and alphabet is easier but the tones is a much difficult than Mandarin... The hardest language for me so far is Burmese in Southeast Asia,,,,, I don't know why but Burmese something very very difficult on another level... Khmer something that comparison to Thai but I'm lazy to continue learning Khmer.... Filipinos Tagalog also easier for Indonesian even I never try to learn it...

[@polyglotdreams]

Did you see the video in which I discuss the similarities in grammar among Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Malay and Indonesia?

[@dennysutanto8719]

@@polyglotdreams not yet let me see it...Thanks for telling me

[@AsianSP]

Filipino grammar is much more complex, this is why filipino find Japanese easier compare to Chinese tho its an SOV order and filipino is VSO but the particles and affixes are much more familiar in a sense of constructing a sentence only in a reverse way.

[@adeerlangg]

Language Indonesian so beautiful be singing music 👍

[@polyglotdreams]

Yes...

[@ArdwanGh]

Please change the name of the episode to "Eastern Asian Languages."

[@polyglotdreams]

I changed the title

[@ArdwanGh]

Thanks for the quick response ❤

[@Katcom111]

I'm guessing the Khmer language is difficult for people to learn

[@polyglotdreams]

No more so than Thai or Vietnamese

[@user-rt6fq8wk1d]

yes

[@juliannaruffini]

cantonese is hard

[@theredbar-cross8515]

Much harder than Mandarin for sure

[@polyglotdreams]

If you know other Chinese languages, Vietnamese, Japanese or Korean it is easier

[@polyglotdreams]

Yes

[@juliannaruffini]

@@polyglotdreams my chinese didnt help me with vietnamese or korean, they are different languages.

[@theredbar-cross8515]

@@juliannaruffini There's no way that's true. That would be like saying that knowing Latin and French don't help you learn English.

[@watermelon3679]

Asian languages are hard but easier than languages like russian arabic

[@polyglotdreams]

The grammar yes with perhaps the exception of Japanese and Korean

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

I would argue they’re easier but longer, the issue is a lot of people didn’t know where to begin.

[@zulfiabdillah5466]

saya orang Indonesia sedang belajar bahasa malaysia

[@polyglotdreams]

Bagus

[@m.h.a.2404]

Mcm x btl bdk ni

[@muhammadmurjani8721]

Iya juga ya, orang Malaysia mengerti kalau kita bicara loh, sedangkan kita bingung

[@koecingumuz]

​@@muhammadmurjani8721 gak juga aku malah ngerti banget bahasa malay.. tapi pas liat subtitle malay pas nonton video rasanya weird banget gak enak

[@firdaus8081]

Kalau buat orang indo bahasa malaysia/ melayu rojak itu seperti bahasa indonesia tapi kalimatnya typo masih bisa dimengerti lah sedangkan bahasa filipina/ tagalog seperti kalimat typo dan susah dimengerti

[@hayabusa1329]

Asian languages are really different compared to European ones

[@polyglotdreams]

For sure

[@muhammadmurjani8721]

It's a bit funny that when speak Indonesian, and they're think speaking Russian😂

[@fantompowerr]

@@muhammadmurjani8721 have some words that are portuguese origin in Indonesio language like for example: gereja (indonesio) igreja (portugues) mentega (indonesio) manteiga (portugues) :)

[@AlLiy-j3g]

​@@muhammadmurjani8721tpi memang ada yg mirip sih Tapi menurutku ttp beda njir

[@erickamorillo7164]

Tim, I really enjoyed this topic but just wished you stopped interrupting Kob

[@polyglotdreams]

Hmm... interaction seems natural

[@homebrandrules]

thankyou for this, but the audio was off.

[@polyglotdreams]

Really? It seems ok

[@AthanasiosJapan]

The video is about East Asian languages. No mention about Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil, Persian, Mongolian, Uzbek etc.

[@belstar1128]

i think Hindi is relatively easy same with Bengali because its indo european but i think Persian is very hare but that may be my own personal problem. i think Dravidian languages like Tamil are very hard too i think Turkic languages are kind of hard but not really its more of a personal thing my Turkish is way better than my my Tamil but unlike in Tamil i really want to be fluent in Turkish because its a useful language in my region and i am disappointed with my progress while with Tamil i don't mind failure its just a hobby to me. i was also able to learn some Uzbek because its similar to Turkish. i think Mongolian is also very hard and because the country has a low population it makes it harder to learn too since i don't get to study it much

[@polyglotdreams]

Yes... all those are Asian languages

[@unka2007]

I dont think the right guy cant speak Korean. His pronunciation of 20 in Korean 100% wrong.

[@afifi-my]

I beat you since you know nothing about sign languages.

[@chrisbunka]

Which country’s sign language?

[@afifi-my]

@@chrisbunka American and International Sign, auxlang which is meant for communication between deaf people from all different nations

[@muhammadmurjani8721]

Damn😂

[@nathanhope1115]

Chinese is pretty easy to learn than English as one Chinese word only has a pronunciation rather than variant pronunciations in English. I wonder why speakers of English can understand each other in this hard situation without misunderstanding.