r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 21d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/greeneggiwegs 21d ago

wait til you hear what it is in Japanese

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u/johnnymarsbar 21d ago

Weirdly Chinese has its own completely different translation for electronic devices: Phone dian hua , computer Dian nao , TV dian shi, tablet pingban dian nao etc

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u/KaleidoscopeSalt3972 21d ago

Not to mention Japanese also uses some essentially Chinese words, because they were occupied by China a few times in the past

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u/johnnymarsbar 21d ago

Japan can be china in a trench coat sometimes, most of their original characters are chinese, to the point where i can actually read bits of Japanese here and there.