I wish I could help you pick one. I want to learn Japanese. Is there any online course that I can join? I mean flexible time is needed. These days, every Japanese learning centers are offering online classes. You can contact one of the nearest one. Plus, you can also find some Japanese teachers for individual sessions at your convenience. Which language has more scope of the package in the future? Both institutes are in Chennai. Dear Sir, I am working pharmaceutical industry which foreign language learning will be useful for me?
There is no particular language that pairs well will the pharma industry. But how much relevance will the Japanese language have when spoken in other countries? Thank you. Hello sir, I am interested in the Japanese language. Please suggest me the best institute to learn Japanese in Pune? Check out — Language institutes in Pune. Any institute which offers the online course from Bangalore on these two languages on weekends? Besides, concentrate on only one. It will take a long time to learn one language properly.
Sir, after reading all the facts above about preferability of Japanese vs Chinese language, my brother is still confused which language to pursue for learning. He had a question in his mind that which one language Chinese or Japanese will be most in demand in India after 5years and so on? Sir, Could you please, let his doubt clear regarding it. I think both Japanese and Mandarin will remain valuable languages in the foreseeable future.
Choosing a language is a subjective thing. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Chinese or Japanese or Korean: Which one to learn? Popularity, and Where is it spoken? Economic strength and importance on the global stage 3. Career Scope associated with Korean, Chinese, and Japanese 4. Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism 5. Mandarin Chinese Japanese Korean Conclusion. PIN IT. Bachelor of Arts in Korean is one example that covers Korean literature.
Hello Sir. Is there any institute in Mumbai for the Korean language? Hello sir, can you please suggest me the best institute for Japanese learning in Delhi?
JNU has stopped taking direct lateral entry into 2nd year BA. I want to join the Korean language classes. How can I apply? Both are are great choices from the high salary perspective. What is the best institute for the Japanese language course in Tamil Nadu? What is the best institute for the Japanese language course? Kindly response asap sir!
Is there any institute in Dehradun for the Korean language? These writing systems then get twisted together to represent native-Japanese words, ancient Chinese compounds, and modern foreign concepts. Then you need to fully rewire your brain to shove the verb at the end of the sentence, drop the need for a subject, and pick up the nature of particles.
Ditto German or so I hear. If you speak English or any other Romance language, good luck. Contrary to popular belief, you actually need to know fewer characters in Chinese to be considered literate—just 2, And the grammar order is quite familiar to use European language speakers.
Chinese has those pesky tones, which are intimidating, sure, but they can be learned. Chinese is more widely spoken, is comparatively easier or at least not more difficult , and shows signs of serious growth into the future. There is lots of room to make money and live an equally good life off of your bilingual English-Japanese abilities. Watch some movies in each language. Maybe take a look at some documentaries too. I had spent a good amount of effort learning Chinese before I realized that I was dividing my time too thinly with a 3rd language.
However, the problem with this comparison is that it would be based on factors that vary too greatly among individuals to serve any real purpose.
If you are one of the people who is asking this question, you probably are after an answer to a more particular question, and that is the question I will answer with this post:. China is the future of industry, jobs, and the international scene. If you want to have an edge in your career and start bringing in the bucks, you need Chinese. Japan has a shrinking economy and population.
Large companies are being sued left and right, they are falling behind other countries in areas of technology they used to dominate, and there are not many jobs that require Japanese.
Learning Japanese is fun, but will not result in any real money, so do it only if you love it. If the above is true, which it mostly is, Chinese seems the favored champion. China has the largest population in the world. You are competing with a lot more people who speak native Chinese.
Chinese like to immigrate. Japanese, not so much. Same problem as 1. Chinese are better at English than Japanese are at English. This leads to 4. Chinese people conduct way more business in English than Japanese people do. This is due to skill, pride, and preference. An extremely higher number of people are studying Chinese over Japanese.
The answer is Japanese. Remember, Japan still has a massive economy, is at the forefront of the technology sector, and has no shortage of career opportunities for foreigners proficient in Japanese. Founder of Jalup. Former attorney, translator, and interpreter. Regarding why Chinese people seem to be better at English than Japanese people, I believe a big part of it is that Chinese university students are required to pass a very rigorous English exam in order to graduate.
This is regardless of their major. I think if you start off with these two at the same time you might get confused, especially with the character readings. I suggest you study Japanese and then work on your Spanish on the side. If you give up Spanish now you might lose it. I hope that helped? Let me know if you have any further questions! Do you think it would be more beneficial for me to go to Japan for the whole of this year or would I benefit just as much from going for 5 months instead of 10?
I think that you should go the whole year to Japan. It would have helped my Chinese immensely and I would have learned the language much better. Again, go all the way Spanish or all the way Japanese but I dont recommend doing a little bit of both.
One language is always going to be better than the other, so right now choose which language you want to excel in first. Hi Mary, actually I am a Taiwanese, I am so lucky that i discover your blog : D , i saw some of your articles which is very interesting, meanwhile, it makes me think over and over.
It is very impressive! Hi Jordan, thanks so much for your comment! I hope I can go back to Taiwan soon and visit more of the countryside… that would be so amazing! Wow, nice post! This article was very interesting, ahh I love it! But I do think Korean last is the smart way to go about things. Go you for attempting to learn 3 languages! Hopefully I can pick up Korean sometime soon, too… aaaaa.. Email me if you have any questions!
Very true, and if I might add, the deeper you go with that, the worse it gets. The initial kindness and consderation can almost feel sureal, but once you realize whats behind it, you kind of wish you didnt and could return back to that naive and ignorant state. Ive had limited experience with Chinese, but from what Ive experienced, they are allot like Americans; they only care about themselves, immediate family, and making money.
They say whatever they feel also. I dont want to live there, but Ive never had any problem with them. They do seem to be a bit closed to outsiders, sort of like they dont care if your in their space or not. I guess they are too concerned with Kiatsu and in the moment. Ive only been to West China, and I know that country is huge. They dont seem to have the inward looking, introverted, paranoia about outsiders groupism you see in Japan, but my observation is just one of an outsider.
Great article! Your article focuses a lot on reading and writing. Japanese is so extremely easy to pronounce. Meanwhile Mandarin has such an easy grammar structure, but those tones! I am so massively intimidated by tones. Japanese is easy to pronounce, but grammar really, really sucks like you mentioned.
Japanese, like German, has a lot of intricacies that make it a really hard language to master. I was intimidated at first, but if you get a good beginner Mandarin teacher and learn pinyin, you should master the tones in no time.
A lot of people forego pinyin and they usually have terrible pronunciation. I learned pinyin and pronunciation for 4 weeks straight before my teacher let me learn anything else. Right now, I say go for the culture you love the most. Find the culture that fits for you and the language will soon follow. I have 12 units for this class and I will be learning about my chosen language and culture all throughout my years in college alongside the degree that I have.
After reading your article great article btw! However, liking a language is really the most important part. In the end, she dropped Chinese and moved to Japan and now Japanese is the only language she knows. So, if you have a cultural preference for one language then I suggest to go with that language. I hope that helps? Anyway, good luck with your studies and let me know if you have any other question! Its interesting; I never hear of any non Japanese wanting to learn Korean, but plenty of Japanese taking Korean lessons.
Go to shin okubou behind the kabukicho slum area and all you see are Japanese visiting Korean shops. Well of courseoccasional the right wing demo as well, for your mental health and safety, please steer clear of that. The thing is, from what I hear, South Korea is now the place to be. Im not speaking from experience because I havent been there recently, but met many who have.
I hear they pay English teachers quite well there, without the mickey mouse games and salaries of Japan. Seems from what I hear they are making effort, and progress, towards integrating their immigrants. I just remember it was an extremely rigid and cold process. They treated us all like convicts or in boot camp. Everyone so eager to conform, we obeyed every command. Japan has a long ways to go to catch up, but most could care less.
I talked with some Japanese lady recruiter in the U. She was asking my age, my japanese level and other personals, just like they do in Japan. I told her why I need to work for Japanese in the U.
Unlike you I have passport and citizenship. I guess they think of you as a gaijin even if your in your own country! Actually learning Japanese is the easy part, its what comes latter. I dont even bother with it anymore. Why bother, the original meaning is still the same so all that effort and stress was for nothing. I guess you can fool yourself into thinking your now part of the Japanese family, but your a fool if you really believe that.. Japanese expect you to find your way through all their mazes and mindgames, only to be left at the same place you started at; your a gaijin.
So, I now use English and avoid all that. Well, most of the time. What a pleasant experience the default in most countries to find a Japanese who can communicate in English. I had a frustrating experience once, however. I called and asked for an English speaker at this company. I said, do you speak English? Do you know about this service offered…. I think Japanese is just used as a kind of mind control or method to bring minna under one umbrella so its one mind.
Getting into that heavy stuff nobody likes to get into, but thats where Im at, so I avoid it as much as possible. I think grammatically Chinese is easier than Japanese, but Japanese is acutally quite simple to learn to speak and understand. I find it to be a language built around heiarchy and control, a holdover from the samurai days.
I think its application in todays world is limited, whereas Mandarin doesnt have the same honorific obstacles and feelings to overcome and latter endure; you get your point across without hangups about the others feelings. I dont know why anybody would even need to study Japanese anymore unless your going to work for them, which isnt reccomended.
Most of their companies have an English speaking bridge engineer or translator anyhow, so IMO, Japanese is for Japanese people, period. I guess there was a time when Japanese empire or Japan Inc hoped for a world where Japanese was the lingua franca, but that dream collasped twice. Just ask any older guam, singapore HK or Korean under what conditions they were forced to learn Japanese.
I think English has become the first choice for people of the world to learn, perhaps followed by Chinese and German, maybe French. I would appreciate if you reply. Here in Cyprus Chinese is getting popular and i am thinking of learning them. They might help me with my business since i also know Russian which is also common here.
My true love is japaneese but they will be useless for me here. I dont know what to do. Are you sure Chinese would be useful? Because I know for English-Chinese, the market is over saturated and it is not that easy. Choose wisely! Thx for replying. Yes Chinese is very useful for business here. I already started learning the language and i love it so far. Thanks for your time and i am planning to learn japaneese aswell when i have spare time since i have the ability to leaen fast. Take care.
Thank you very much for taking the time to write this. Thanks a lot again and have a great day! Thank you for writing this! I am planning on going to Japan in July to study Japanese for 2 years, I always found Japan so beautiful and the culture and food is great. And who knows maybe in the future and too the Olympics Japanese will become a much bigger language hopefully!
Ive seen this done in Japan, and could not process the logic behind it. Sometimes I would be doing a process or something and everybody copied exactly what I did. This guy really summed it up nicely. Even though Japanese arent as direct like Chinese might be about it and practice Kaizen continuous imrovement they still dont invent much like you see in the west and not allot of original stuff comes out of Japan.
Sure there are exceptions, but not like we can see in the west. Ive seen them copy products from the US, and it as almost like it was his right to do so and I must never ask as to why. So the individual is less imortant than the group, therefore what the individual creates must be shared by the group, a sort of means to an end…. Who knows? Maybe in the work field. I started to learn chinese on my own bought books and watched youtube and I really love it but right now I wonder which would be my best option I want to be able to use it in the future , before I start an academic course.
In case you see my comment, which one would you recommend me to learn? I would so go ahead with Chinese since you already started on it. Sorry for the delay but I started with my studies and I have a lot of work and tasks to do! I hope you still reply to this post after so long.
By the way, i think your blog is great! It motivated me to think more carefully about the languages i want to study. So my question is: is it still usefull to learn Chinese Mandarin when barely any chinese people understand it perfectly? I think now only the uneducated and the older generation have poor Mandarin.
If you want to use Chinese for work then it will help immensely. I think the dialect thing only becomes a problem when you study Chinese in a very dialect heavy environment and people refuse to speak Mandarin. For example, Tokyo-Japanese and Osaka-Japanese Osaka-ben have slight differences, but does not impose any barriers on communication. The only dialects that are crazy different in Japan are the northern dialects near Aomori—I heard that those are nothing like standard Japanese.
I think accents are not a big deal when it comes to learning Chinese and Japanese. So again… choose the language you love! Mandarin is SUPER useful and will continue to be the primary language of China; and standard Kanto-Japanese will allow you to go communicate with anyone in the country. Thank you! This helped a lot! I read that japanese grammar is a whole new level of difficulty in comparance to chinese that is apparently supposed to be simpler grammar wise. Anyway, thank you again! I am a first year student of Chinese at British university.
And now I am having a hard time trying to choose if I should stay on this course or transfer to Japanese and Spanish from the new year. I like both Chinese and Japanese, though I love the sound of Japanese more. The simplicity of Chinese grammar actually is something that makes it less interesting for me than Japanese. And the fact that I could also study Spanish, which I truly adore, is making it even more exciting. But I know that it would take a lot of work to learn proper Japanese.
My native language is quite complicated when it comes to grammar, so I am not worried as much, but still — I know it would be extremely difficult. Hey there, sorry for the late response! Seems like Spanish is your favorite language so I would prioritize that. I think I mentioned that I was torn between Chinese and Korean essentially, but I took 2 weeks of each class and realized I had way more fun learning Chinese.
So, maybe you can go that route. Either way, prioritize Spanish. I think simultaneously learning two languages as an adult is just not a good idea. Though my dream is to do translations and maybe interpretations in the future. I was also thinking about staying on Chinese course and started learning Spanish by myself.
I began with apps, videos, and everything was fine but one day I decide to investigate how could it be if I decide to go to Japan.
So, I decide to give up and put all my effort in English. That decision was possible for people like you who take their time to write their experience. But I loved your blog and I will follow it, glad to find it. Congrats for your post! Read it with the comments has helped me a lot to make up my mind about which language should i go first.
But Chinese has been for me a mystery and despite I tried several times to study Japanese mostly kanji, and I always ended up beating I want to start again this coming year. Despite that, and, again, thanks to your post, I will try again and hopefully the last Japanese.
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