From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T02:57:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)

Quoteing matz@ruby-lang.org, on Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 08:27:08AM +0900:
> 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

I think they sound similar, too. I lived in Japan a year, and I can tell
when people are speaking Korean because it sounds Japanese, but I don't
understand a single word!

Sam