Can Chinese speakers read Japanese?
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In this clip I give a Japanese sentence to a Chinese speaker to see how well he can read it.
Really like this type of video where you have people try to read related languages
They are technically not related languages but they both use chinese characters. I really like these videos too.
@ yes, I know they’re not “genealogically” but there is the relationship between their writing systems, so they can be considered related in that sense
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@@Nick-zl5xf Yes they also of course share some historical relation, even though they are not related. But they borrowed words and so on.
As a Taiwanese, I would read it as something about gifting hand paper something cutting hand something necessary
手紙 doesn’t mean toilet paper in Taiwan btw
I like the way toilet paper becomes letter.
Interesting.
I’m German and I can read a finnish text – but won’t understand a single word, since it’s a complete different & non related language. They use Latin alphabet – that’s all.
Except Chinese letters are ideographs.
@@tapani1857 Just found out – i can understand Finnish traffic signs. They look like ours.
Thats a bad example, Finnish is not a European language by origin. A Dutch, Norwegian or maybe even French text can be understandable for a german speaker for example.
@@ThomasVonHerzberg Finnish is a European language by origin, it’s just not part of PIE languages. Neither is Hungarian or Basque (and you’d have hard time saying Basque is not a european language)
Finnish and Hungarian are Uralic languages, most of which are on the European side of the Ural mountains, ergo in Europe.
interesting, well done
I mean, it is not too surprsing because Kanji are traditional Chinese characters and form the basis of a very large number of Japanese words.
Full video linked under username🎯
I wonder if it will be easier in Cantonese.