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How Much Written Chinese Can Japanese Speakers Understand

That Japanese Man Yuta · Explainer · 10 min · 2019 · YouTube title: Can Japanese People Read Chinese? (Kanji)
Why it's here

Cited in threads on writing systems and CJK characters as an entertaining test of how much Japanese people can understand of Chinese.

What it covers

Yuta, a Japanese YouTuber, explains whether Japanese speakers can read Chinese text. He shows how shared kanji let people guess meanings while the two languages remain completely different.