What makes Chinese such a desirable language?
As someone who is proficient in the English language, I find Korean
so much easier to understand.
Because there are vowels and consonants in Korean, a word is
predictable, and once you've learned the vowels and consonants, you
can basically 'write' any Korean character by ear.
If I'm not wrong, the same goes for Japanese.
Chinese is just such a mess.
Out of the above mentioned, Japanese is the one most
predictable. Other than that, Malay and Spanish is more
predictable than Korean. You can basically 'write' any Malay
by ear.
Korean is also quite predictable but less so than Malay, except
for the fact that Korean has such finals combinations such as ㄺ, ㄳ,
ㅄ, ㅀ, ㅅ, ㅈ and many more! that are not phonological as it seems to
be.
Malay has only the problem which is between the high 'e' and the
schwa 'e'.
