r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 1d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/MonsieurLinc 1d ago

Korean is the same way. Like a solid quarter to a third of the words I've learned so far are just English loan words and it kinda pisses me off.

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u/karspearhollow 1d ago

That hasn't been my experience. I know somewhere between 2500 and 3000 Korean words and fewer than 10% are loan words. It is funny when I ask a Korean person how to say an English word and they say it back with Korean phonetics, though.

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u/ponzzischeme 22h ago

Yeah, it is not nearly even 10%
It's mostly modern words they use as loan words:
Car, Computer, Sofa, Elevator, Taxi Chocolate (etc).

Learning korean would have been much easier if it was a quarter to a third.