I know when Korean is spoken. I have A LOT of friends that are Korean and speak Korean. It's just a language that I don't think I would try to speak (as my friends taugh me how to speak a little bit), and to me, it just doesn't sound good to my ears. I don't mind being around it, and I can't really explain it, and I know a lot of you don't agree with me and that's fine.

I used to listen to Korean music before I got into Japanese music. Japanese sounds oddly romantic to me when it's in ballads and I have a liking and connection to it.

Everyone's replies are so interesting! I am not exposed to that much Korean, but I can tell it apart from Japanese and Chinese - If you watch a lot of things in any two of those three languages than you can learn to distinguish between them.

However, when it comes to sound, Korean is very flowing, it's almost as if you can't distinguish where one word ends. Korean seems like a fun language to learn how to write and speak in, so I definetly want to learn how to speak and write Korean. As for Japanese - I think it's a beautiful language. But I think most of all you need to be exposed to both japanese and korean to be able to easily tell which words belong in which language.