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Korean speakers learning Japanese
— the mistakes your language makes you commit

Your native language (한국어) quietly pushes you into specific Japanese errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.

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from your first language

Grammar transfers almost wholesale (advantage!)

SOV order, particles, honorific logic and Sino-vocabulary map beautifully: 은/는→は, 이/가→が, 을/를→を, 에→に, 도→も. Translate the sentence skeleton directly — it usually works.

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は/が is NOT exactly 은/는 vs 이/가

The mapping breaks at the edges: Japanese keeps が in subordinate clauses and exhaustive-listing uses where Korean might switch, and は resists appearing inside relative clauses. When a sentence feels off, suspect the particle, not the word order.

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Kanji readings are the real workload

You know the hanja meanings, but each kanji has multiple readings (on/kun: 生 = セイ/ショウ/い-きる/なま…) chosen by context — unlike hanja’s mostly single reading. Learn readings per WORD, not per character.

core challenge

Particles (は/が/を/に/で)

Particles mark grammatical role — choosing は vs が and を vs に is the core challenge.

core challenge

Verb-final word order

Japanese is Subject-Object-Verb; the verb always comes last.

core challenge

Counters

Counting needs the right counter word (一本, 一枚, 一匹) for the object’s shape/type.

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