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Originally Posted by DrJekyll
I've done a little bit of study of Korean...would you say that it's much easier than Japanese?
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I'm told that modern written Korean is much easier to learn than written Japanese, because it consists of only one alphabet (hangul), whereas Japanese has 3 separate sets, including two moraic writing systems representing the sounds of the language (hiragana and katakana), and a set of about 2,000 chinese characters (kanji).
As far as learning to pronounce the words as they are written, Korean is one of the easiest languages to learn. Learning to actually understand what is written is of course a whole other story
