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In this video I see how well native speakers of Chinese can read Japanese without ever having studied it. The results are incredibly interesting!

Special thanks to: Alfred, Channing, Judy, Paul, Jia, and Webster for participating in the video!

🎧 Japanese sentence audio and Hiragana transcription: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s...

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00:00 Introduction
02:29 Video sponsor: NordVPN
04:05 Everyday sentence #1
06:43 Everyday sentence #2
08:29 Everyday sentence #3
10:40 Everyday sentence #4
12:39 Advanced sentence #1
15:34 Advanced sentence #2
17:10 Advanced sentence #3
19:17 Reflecting on the experiment