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It makes for a fun bridging the gap cultural experience when talking to Chinese people about the Chinese idioms you learn in Japanese class. Even the pronunciat
by justusw 4y ago
It makes for a fun bridging the gap cultural experience when talking to Chinese people about the Chinese idioms you learn in Japanese class. Even the pronunciation is so similar (I mean, of course it is, duh).
My favorite one is 吴越同舟 or 呉越同舟 (Wú Yuè tóng zhōu) meaning people of different backgrounds finding themselves having to work together.
https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E5%90%B4%E8%B6%8A%E5%90%8C%E8%88%9F https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E5%90%B4%E8%B6%8A%E5%90%8C%E8%88%...
https://jisho.org/word/%E5%91%89%E8%B6%8A%E5%90%8C%E8%88%9F https://jisho.org/word/%E5%91%89%E8%B6%8A%E5%90%8C%E8%88%9F
If only the two countries were as close diplomatically as they are in their shared culture.
- wenyuanyu 4y agoIt's indeed a regrettable circumstance that the diplomatic ties between the two countries don't reflect their cultural similarities. My parents, who are Chinese and in their 60s, managed to travel around Japan without knowing Japanese or English. They successfully took trains, hailed taxis, and communicated with locals using just a pen and paper, ultimately enjoying their trip.
- DaBarrington 4y agoI'm sure they have Chinese around other places, but one thing I've noticed around train stations in Tokyo is that for the major announcements they are read out in Japanese, English, and Chinese. Hopefully those announcements were something that helped them on their journey.
- mgdlbp 4y agoAnd Russian and Ukraine, presently superlatively so.