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Great to hear that Shenshen SHAN is still active and appreciated somewhere rather than dissolving into obscurity :3

I think she means Koreans can kinda pick up words here and there from listening.  We can't really speak it if we haven't learned it.  But just some of the words sound quite similar, especially if they are nouns that can be expressed in kanji, making it possible to pick up just words. 
글구 한국에 살고 있지는 않지만 한국사람이에여~

Yeah, def noticed Koreans pick up Japanese p intuitively. The same goes the other way around; at the Korean language institute I went to the advanced classes were all Japanese and 교포 students. It's fun hearing how Japanese students pronounce syllables with 받침 though   

 

그렇군--- 유학생으로 외국으로 갔었어요? 일본...?

한국 어느 도시?

Who here's in Korea anyway? Look me up in Daejeon sometime haha I'm learning me some 충천도사투리. We can grab some 삼겹살 and 소주, and just chill.

한국말하는사람도있어요? 여기한국말로하면좋겠죠?
 

Does having japanese pronunciation help with korean pronunciation? They dont sound the same at all to me..
But the other day i said annyeonghaseyo to someone from korea and the were surprised and said it sounded just like a korean O.o
I dont even know korean, so i just said it with japanese pronounciation  O.o Are the two languages really that similar ???

Oh okay i get it now. So what i deduce from you all is that annyeonghaseyo happens to be a word that uses sounds that overlap with japanese so she was able to understand it. So even though it didnt sound korean, it was closer to korean than saying annyeonghaseyo in my american accent (which is probably what she was expecting)aying

How many Koreans have you met before (or at least have tried speaking Korean to)?

I've heard the worst 안녕하세요s and 감사합니다s out of westerners (me included) met with "WHOAH YOU SOUND JUST LIKE A KOREAN!!!"

A lot of my early learning in conversational Korean was slow going thanks to this; I'd speak Korean and Koreans would respond with big-time praise in English. It's hard getting them back to speaking Korean even if their English is awful. Almost impossible to get an honest assessment of my progress or even keep a Korean-only conversation.

It's this thing many of them do, especially if they haven't met many westerners. I'm not even tryna guess why. Although if you chill with more Koreans in the future please post which Hollywood celebrities they compare you to even though you don't look remotely like them (I've gotten Jim Carey, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Ryan Gosling).
 

Here are my thoughts on this from my studies of Korean and being married to a Korean for 20 years:
 
1.  Koreans tend to have at least a (very) basic knowledge of Japanese due to the Colonial Period and commerical contacts post-World War II.  Its not unlike how Americans can cope with Spanish due to contacts with Mexico.
 
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4.  I've got some Koreans friends who have put some serious study time into Japanese.  They've told me picking up basic Japanese is really easy for them but they tend to have serious problems with advanced Japanese due to cultural differences.

 
How old are the Koreans you chill with? Almost every Korean I know can p much only say "sayounara", "arigatou", "sensei", and "watashi-wa kankokujin desu" unless they've actively gone out their way to study Japanese. Maybe a scattered few words from video games/anime. I found it interesting that Japanese skill among Koreans I know is only marginally better than the average western anime nerd.
 
And number 4: I noticed the same thing when I studied Japanese for a bit. I'd already been studying Korean when I started Japanese, and the basics came to me super easy-like. I still think the Japanese writing system(s) be clunky though. Now it doesn't matter because all my Japanese is gone.

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I remember the XP language pack process being weird and this site confirms my suspicions. You'll have to scroll down a bit to see the XP section, hope you don't get blisters.

Glad I'll never have to go through it again.

You might have to download some filepacks, the links for which are on the above site anyway. Said site is also the second Google result for "korean text windows xp professional".

... I'm not very good speaking or recognizing what the words mean. ^^;

Ouch, bro :(

I'll be willing to give korean nicknames as well! :D So we could try to learn korean together.

---->My girlfriend<---- already calls me 기인 and sometimes 큰이마 but she's weird.

lol she apparently unfriended me

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