Could someone from china ?

Question

/people with chinese background read and understand a japanese newspaper?hence the characters are written in kanji and how close related are both languages?

Answer 1

I am Chinese.This is a little complicated question.make an easy answer:pronunciation:totally different. Chinese hsa 4 tones of each character,in different condition one word maybe used as a verb,noun,adj etc .writing:some Japanese use the same characters,some half part of one Chinese character(maybe keep the same meaning)1200 years ago,China and Japan had a lot of communications,a lot of their culture were affected by Chinese like tea culture.one Chinese ,never lear Japanese,but he may get 50% meaning of a Japanese article.

Answer 2

Yes, people that read Chinese can also understand the kanji in a Japanese newspaper. They would usually pronounce them differently, but they would know what they "mean."

But as far as understanding the whole text of something written in Japanese, no. They would have a general idea of what an article is saying, but they wouldn't understand the whole thing.

Grammatically, syntactically, and tonally, Japanese and Chinese completely different, although Japanese has borrowed a lot of "loan words" from Chinese with a similiar pronunciation.

Take for example the character "心"

In Chinese, this is "xin."

In Japanese, this is "shin." They're pronounced very similiarly, and both Chinese and Japanese know that this character means "heart."

Answer 3

Japanese and Chinese grammar are totally different. Plus, Japanese uses other characters Chinese people don't know.

Answer 4

not related at all. I have Chinese friends. They speak mandarin. No relation at all to Jap. language

Answer 5

closely

Answer 6

No, of course not!