Can Japanese Speakers Read Chinese?

▶The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/langfocus07241 ◀ 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: https://youtu.be/ZWsLahVQj9s (Chinese Speakers Reading Japanese) See the video ad-free and promo-free on Patreon: https://patreon.com/Langfocus Current patrons include these awesome people: Aleksei Bogatov AmateurTextualCriticism Atlasino Fuyusaka Bennett Seacrist Bill Walderman Brian King Bruce C Chris Meredith Chuck Davis Claudia Ramos Fiona de Visser Georgina Toland Irina Bruce Italy Made Easy Jacob Madsen John Moffat Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kirk Kirkpatrick M. Aizat A. Rahman Matthew Foster Michael Cuomo Michael J Synnott Mody Nobbi Lampe-Strang Rosalind Resnick Rosetta Stephens Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Vincent David Walter A Moore Wolfgang Egon Schroder Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Vanderpluym Aitona Al Alana Kalinowski Alex Tsigdinos Ali Muhammed Alshehri Alice Amittai Aviram Andrew Woods Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Ashley Dierolf Bartosz Czarnotta Ben Benjamin Tipton bk Brent Warner Bruce Ian Danton Bruce Stark Carl Luca Hofmann chris brown Chris Shifman contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Dan Haworth Darek David Golub Desmond Drew Diana Fulger Diane Young Dina Trageser divad Donald Tilley Doug Edward Wilson El Capitan Nico Elijah Double Eliza McCoole Emilia Bruns Eric Loewenthal fatimahl frederick shiels G Bot grace Grégoire Le Corre Guillaume Brodar Henrik Flyvbjerg Herr K Howard Clark Hugh AULT Ina Mwanda James and Amanda Soderling James Lillis JAMES ORR James Wraith Jay Bernard Jim McLaughlin JL Bumgarner John Gavin John Weiss Jonathan Hutchins Julie Sriken Kate Jensen Konrad Konstantin Bredyuk KW Laura Morland Leah Meredith Lee Dedmon Leo Barudi LEROY Lissette Talledo Malandro Manuel Rosales Margaret Langendorf Mark Mark Judge Mark Kemp Martin Blackwell Merrick Bobb Merrick Bobb Michael Mersol-Barg Michael Regal MikAE Mike Frysinger Mohammed A. Abahussain Molly Fivian Mário Pegado Nicholas Gentry Nicolas Elsishans Niro Oleksandr Ivanov Patriot Nurse Paul Shutler Peter Nikitin Peter Scollar Phil Franks piero Piri JAKAB VON SZENGELICE Ploshtinska polyudnica Raymond Thomas Roger Smith Roland Seuhs Ronald Brady Scarecrow Repair Sebastian Bartels Simon Blanchet SJWS Stefan Reichenberger Tara Pride Theophagous Thomas Chapel Thomas Gijsbers tomas o dathail Tony DeSantis Vinicius Marchezini Warren McKenzie William MacKenzie William O Beeman Yagub Alserkal Yeshar Hadi Yuriy Vrublevskiy Yuval Filmus Éric Martin Вайзефакнот ▶ 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