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  1.  @sara.cbc92  The relationship of the East Asian languages is a very interesting topic. I think many linguists call the grammatical similarity between Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu, Korean, and Japanese a "Sprachbund." Based on DNA haplogroups, proto-Koreanic speakers (Y-DNA Haplogroup C) originate somewhere in Manchuria, and they have close genetic ties with Manchus, Mongols, and Kazakhs. Warm southern regions of the peninsula used to be part of Japonic language/culture (Y-DNA Haplogroup O1), until Koreanic speakers starting migrating/invading southwards from 4th century and onwards. Think of Germanic vs Romance/Latin-speakers who study English as a foreign language. In general, Germanic speakers will have a much easier time mastering English than Romance/Latin-speakers, despite nearly half of English vocab having roots in French/Latin. It's because all Germanic languages still share a common grammar structure, including English. It's a similar situation with Turkic, Mongolic, and Korean speakers who study Japanese. Grammar is relatively intuitive...which makes life so much easier. (You can focus on Kanji, vocab, or idioms without having to worry about grammar too much. And honorifics is not an alien concept in their languages.) But I'm always most impressed when I listen to the Japanese spoken by Slavic/Russian speakers. Their Japanese pronunciation is far better and crisp/clear than most other foreigners, including people from many Asian countries. Mandarin-speakers often struggle with Japanese grammar (unless they're ethnic Mongolian, Korean, Tibetan, or Uyghur/Turkic-speakers from China). Native Korean-speakers and (some people from Southeast Asia) often struggle with accurate pronunciation of certain Japanese phonetics. Which is why we can almost always identify Koreans and Chinese from how they speak Japanese.
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