• @Nick-zl5xf says:

    Really like this type of video where you have people try to read related languages

    • @shiehuapiaopiao says:

      They are technically not related languages but they both use chinese characters. I really like these videos too.

    • @Nick-zl5xf says:

      @ 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

    • @mchlkpng says:

      ​@@Nick-zl5xfthey’re my favorite

    • @arnoldhau1 says:

      @@Nick-zl5xf Yes they also of course share some historical relation, even though they are not related. But they borrowed words and so on.

  • @FAIZAFEI says:

    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

  • @hoangkimviet8545 says:

    I like the way toilet paper becomes letter.

  • @bigsarge2085 says:

    Interesting.

  • @HesseJamez says:

    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.

    • @tapani1857 says:

      Except Chinese letters are ideographs.

    • @HesseJamez says:

      @@tapani1857 Just found out – i can understand Finnish traffic signs. They look like ours.

    • @ThomasVonHerzberg says:

      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.

    • @The_Yukki says:

      @@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.

  • @pettym3 says:

    interesting, well done

  • @nicknamenescio says:

    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.

  • @Langfocus says:

    Full video linked under username🎯

  • @Verge63 says:

    I wonder if it will be easier in Cantonese.

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