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That's how my Japanese friends get around when in Taiwan. According to them, they understand ~95% of everything that's written, but have no idea how to express
by quantum_magpie 5y ago
That's how my Japanese friends get around when in Taiwan. According to them, they understand ~95% of everything that's written, but have no idea how to express any of that verbally.
- hnfong 5y agoIt's the same the other way round. I'm a from Hong Kong and I have no trouble reading Kanji in Japan. Once I learned Katakana (which usually just transliterates English) I can also decode 95+% of the things written. And I can't communicate verbally at all... That said, the voice in my head just pronounces the Japanese Kanji in my native Cantonese...