From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T08:27:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)

Hi,

In message "Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)"
    on Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:59:19 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> writes:

|(On an almost-related note--Japanese is pretty similar to Korean, yes? 
|Assuming one had a basic grasp of Korean, about how hard would it be to 
|learn Japanese, at least sufficiently to read and write it?)

We are pretty similar.  I can't distinguish Korean from Japanese until
they speak.  We are similar to Chinese too. ;-)

For languages, I've heard that basic syntax is similar.  I know some
Koreans who have learned to speak Japanese very quickly.  Reading and
writing is harder because we have totally different writing system.
I wish natural languages are as easy as programming ones.

							matz.