Korean has round stuff
I haven't seen much vietnamese so I can't say anything about it
Japanese and Chinese have a lot of similarities, but because Japanese has three writing systems before we even get romanization involved, there's a lot of differences too
That said, I don't really see hiragana enough to recognize it

Kuuki wrote: If that can help, French is hard. Even French people can't French properly. And, despite being French, I can bet I wouldn't understand how young people talk nowadays.
The way French is spoken too is very fast as well with words mumbled together. It's hard.

When I don't have conversation partners I try to have conversations with myself in my head. It kinda works.

This! It's so fast. A lot of other languages too, when you hear TV or radio they tend to speak sooo fast. Then I end up relying on subtitles which defeats the point of the practice. I half the time can't understand what people say in English, let alone other languages, because I have trouble following what someone is saying if I can't read their lips at the same time and if they aren't being clear enough.

Romanisation for Korean has been bugging the hell out of me. Different sites/places will romanise spellings differently and I get too confused. I am learning to read Korean anyway so I've had to just stick with that, even though I currently read at approximately the same speed as a three-year-old. I found a site that was offering free workbooks but the translations were all spelled out in a different romanisation than I'm used to so I had to abandon it.

In all my years I have found that news anchors were the easiest people to understand. The words they use aren't always the easiest but at least they speak clearly.

I don't study Korean but I have indeed found the romanization of names a bit hard to understand at times.

Oh heck another item to save for

Catching up takes so looooong 0A0

the new hair is sooo pretty, I love it !

I do too!
I'm so glad I posted a lot the last time it was on because I had enough to buy everything at once ^^

Now I need to make something to go with it.

Yooo, the new hair tho, I want it so bad. But even if I could afford it, which I can't yet, I KEEP BUYING STUFF IN ORDER. Unless I pull out 20k posts in the next few visits I'm not getting there for a few years lololol

And I want to learn Japanese real bad but I'm also super lazy and too damn busy. I have enough trouble keeping my head straight for my job that I'd be worried about learning anything else at the same time, lol.

And yes, French is hard. But so is English apparently, because half the shit I translate is terribly written and it's sooo annoying. But French tho, I love you, but still. Oh, 5 vowels, but you only pronounce 1? Sure, why not. No wonder people hate us lol

Don't worry, my ex-boss, a (French) Museum curator so probably educated and used to writing ... couldn't write a single paragraph without a mistake.
Sometimes it looks like your mother tongue is the hardest to get right.

Japanese on the other hand is hard to write/read but easy to speak at basic level. Really. And speaking French makes the pronunciation even easier.

Hahah, French is all around a difficult language, spoken and written. I still love you tho.

Hmm, well, one day I'm gonna learn Japanese and I'll get back to you on that lololol

I could speak Japanese before even starting to study it.
It all depends on why you're learning it of course but if you don't have time to study properly just listening to the language while doing something else is a good start.