Korean and Mandarin sound alike; Vietnamese and Cantonese sound alike?
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 at
12:50 am
This just be my opinion, but I’m a Cantonese speaker and people say that Vietnamese sounds like Cantonese (vice versa) all the time because of the "Ng" sound in a lot of words.
I can understand and speak Mandarin to a certain extent but I’ve been listening to people speak Korean lately (in dramas) and it sounds kind of like Mandarin.
Is it just me or do you think so too?
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That’s only a very superficial phonetic similarity, as Mandarin and Cantonese belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family, and Vietnamese to the Austro-Asiatic language family, and all are tonal languages.
But Korean is a language isolate, maybe related to Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Japanese.
oh!! yur soo right! i know vietnamese //mandarin and whenever i go on a random korean drama i keep thinking it sounds like mandarin!!
Vietnamese borrowed 50% of its vocabulary from Cantonese dialect.
Korean & Mandarin don’t sound alike. Korean has 70% Chinese vocabulary, some from Mandarin, some from Cantonese, and others from other Chinese dialects [mostly borrowed through Japanese].
no i dont think so…. i speak mandarin and it definitely does not sound like korean…
haha mandarin sounds better….
korean does sound a bit like japanese
hehe…listen to some taiwanese pop, kpop, and some jpop and you will know!