Langfocus | Can Japanese Speakers Read Chinese? @Langfocus | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 8 minutes ago.
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In this video I see how well native speakers of Japanese can read Chinese without ever having studied it. The results are incredibly interesting!

Special thanks to: Rio, Shin, Nozomi, and Nana for participating in the video!

▶ See the opposite challenge here: youtu.be/ZWsLahVQj9s (Chinese Speakers Reading Japanese)

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▶ Source of information and examples of Chinese:
"Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar" by Claudia Ross, Jing-heng Sheng Ma.

00:00 - Introduction
03:04 - Sentence 1
05:49 - Sentence 2
09:01 - Sentence 3
12:09 - Sentence 4
13:31 - Sentence 5
15:16 - Sentence 6
17:18 - Sentence 7
19:36 - Reflecting