Thread:露伊梨霞/@comment-3261234-20130619203557/@comment-11003905-20130621103635

I have never learned Japanese ;)

With appropriate knowledge of linguistics (e.g. history of change in sounds of Chinese for recent 2,000 years, which is needed to guess the Japanese reading of a Chinese character), a Korean can speak Japanese fluently. The Korean and Japanese languages are strikingly similar. Many linguists think the two languages were originally one (dubbed Proto-Korean-Japanese). After PKJ gave birth to Korean and Japanese, the Korean language affected the Japanese language in ancient times (fl. 4th―6th c.), and in the late 19th―early 20th c., Modern Korean literary language was built over Japanese influence.