How different my neighbor languages are!!

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• Hi :)
  It's curious, because you choose two language family: romance and germanic
  http://goo.gl/jb48g (語族：ja.wikipedia.org)
  The reason why both family lenguages use the latin alphabet is because of the christianization
  http://goo.gl/e5mzI (拉丁字母發展史：zh.wikipedia.org)
  I add you in face book

• I forgot to say I'm Gkatar

• Hi,
  I edited your comment name.
  > It's curious, because you choose two language family: romance and germanic
  Yeah, I know about it. But they all are branches of Indo-European languages.
  Since the Christianization made them use the Latin-alphabet, they increasingly became resembling each other for a long time.
  I think, at any rate, their differences are smaller than the difference between Japanese and Korean.
  I feel Japanese language resembles Korean, but linguists say they don't belong to the same language family.
  They say my mother tongue is an isolated language. Probably, we may be poor at foreign languages because of about 200 years closure of the country and this.
  BTW, I add you in it, too.

• Hi,
  what do you mean with >because of about 200 years closure of the country? the country was... close?

• Hi,
  > the country was... close?
  Yes, that's what I meant.
  Our country had closed itself during 1639–1854. Please read the link below, though it doesn't explain the much details.
  http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku

• Hi,
  It's short but I think it explain it fine. I didn't know about it, and that may be a reason, (as you said).
  I ended up looking for japanese language in wikipedia. It says that "Japanese may be most closely related to Korean, but the similarities consist only of general grammatical features and approximately 15 per cent of basic vocabulary." I know my word doesn't count because I don't know japanese nor korean, but I wouldn't consider a 15% as something low.

• Hi,
  I don't know about it really, but, I feel Japanese language resembles Korean definitely.
  So, I think this. (^_^)
  If Japanese students don't meet English but Korean as the first foreign language, they would feel the foreign language more familiar to themselves. Unfortunately, we, I mean Japanese, assume foreign languages are very different from our mother tongue because of learning English as the first foreign language. Most of them think that they cannot get better at English forever. And they begin to feel a feeling of needless inferiority for languages. Oh miserable, we are! (^^;)

• Hi,
  Hey, don' say that. A woman I met once(who speaks 7 lenguages) said that the first two lenguaes are diffucult, the rest are more fluent.
  At least the people there are not like the guys in here. Do you know what most of the guys say about speaking a foreing lenguage? They say: If I ever have to go to an other country I'll talk with signals (expresions with hands). They are just lazy haha.

• (reading it again, the "hey" may sound rude, I didn't mean that. It was something like please)

• Don't mention it. I don't mind. Of course, I think to be polite is important on the net, though there are a lot of people without it.
  And a little apology about my last comment, it is just a moan. Why did I make such a moan? Because to dispose some lazy students to study hard is very difficult things, not only English but also others. I'm not a language teacher, though.
  But I'm glad your reaction is so straight. Probably you are a good student in the past and the present.