Language Test 2 Can Japanese People Read Chinese Basically, a chinese reader attempting to read japanese from the kanji would have a really hit and miss reading that would be less successful than an italian reader attempting to read spanish. In this clip of a longer video i show a japanese sentence to a native speakers of chinese from china, and see how well he can read it.
Common English Mispronunciations Of Chinese Speakers And How To Avoid In general, more colloquial every day chinese is unintelligible to everyday japanese due to grammatical and lexical differences in the languages. however, signs at an airport, simple instructions in government offices, newspaper headlines, etc. may be intelligible to a japanese person. As far as i know though, japanese uses a lot of kana for grammatical reasons so it's probably easier for a japanese person to get the idea of (traditional) chinese writing rather than the other way around since all the grammatical markings would be lost on someone who doesn't know japanese. My friend used to read japanese news articles (we're both chinese but i'm trash at my own native language) and he could easily discern the overall meaning of the article just through the shared meanings of the 漢字 (or hanzi) alone. I went with a friend who is a fluent chinese speaker to a wwii museum display that had japanese wartime memorabilia captured by us soldiers, and he could read a lot of what was written.
Chinese Speakers Of English 5 Problems You Can Overcome Scize My friend used to read japanese news articles (we're both chinese but i'm trash at my own native language) and he could easily discern the overall meaning of the article just through the shared meanings of the 漢字 (or hanzi) alone. I went with a friend who is a fluent chinese speaker to a wwii museum display that had japanese wartime memorabilia captured by us soldiers, and he could read a lot of what was written. No chinese can read japanese aloud or viceversa, but they can understand some of what is being said in the text. because of the kanas, chinese people are slightly in a disadvantage, so japanese normally understand a bit more written chinese than the other way round. Thanks to pop culture, some chinese readers with no knowledge of japanese may still be aware of the more common false friends. 大丈夫 and 大変 (大變 大变), for instance, are occasionally used with the japanese meanings in internet slang. Despite these differences, some chinese speakers may find japanese easier to learn than speakers of other languages. due to the shared writing system, chinese speakers can recognize many kanji characters and may find it easier to remember the meaning of certain words in japanese. One blog i read suggested that learning chinese and japanese simultaneously is the way to go. the other suggested that when you decide to learn chinese after learning japanese (which i plan to do in the future), to learn exclusively through pinyin until you are more advanced in the language.
Japanese Vs Chinese Language Which Should You Learn Team Japanese No chinese can read japanese aloud or viceversa, but they can understand some of what is being said in the text. because of the kanas, chinese people are slightly in a disadvantage, so japanese normally understand a bit more written chinese than the other way round. Thanks to pop culture, some chinese readers with no knowledge of japanese may still be aware of the more common false friends. 大丈夫 and 大変 (大變 大变), for instance, are occasionally used with the japanese meanings in internet slang. Despite these differences, some chinese speakers may find japanese easier to learn than speakers of other languages. due to the shared writing system, chinese speakers can recognize many kanji characters and may find it easier to remember the meaning of certain words in japanese. One blog i read suggested that learning chinese and japanese simultaneously is the way to go. the other suggested that when you decide to learn chinese after learning japanese (which i plan to do in the future), to learn exclusively through pinyin until you are more advanced in the language.
Japanese Vs Chinese Language Which Should You Learn Team Japanese Despite these differences, some chinese speakers may find japanese easier to learn than speakers of other languages. due to the shared writing system, chinese speakers can recognize many kanji characters and may find it easier to remember the meaning of certain words in japanese. One blog i read suggested that learning chinese and japanese simultaneously is the way to go. the other suggested that when you decide to learn chinese after learning japanese (which i plan to do in the future), to learn exclusively through pinyin until you are more advanced in the language.
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