Do Chinese and Japanese use the same alphabet
Are Chinese and Japanese similar?
Chinese and Japanese, which one is more difficult?
of course Chinese
of course Japanese
Hello everyone, I am Zoe
I am Miki
Hello, everyone.
Welcome to my channel. Today
We have a very special guest from Japan: Miki
Hello.
Miki, just introduce yourself to everybody.
Okay. Hi, friends. I'm from Japan, and I'm doing my master degree
in France, and I speak Japanese, of course,
and English, French and little bit Italian.
And now I'm learning Chinese
Miki, you know on my channel, we have audience from all over the world,
but basically based on the seven languages I speak like
France, Germany and, of course, Turkey and Iran.
And we have a lot of
friends from Arab countries
alsalam ealaykum
you know some Arabic?
Yes, a little bit.
How?
Because when I was in Senegal, some of my friends
taught me how to say Hello
because it's a muslim country
how to say, tell me the arabic words you know
that's cute what else?
I want to know how to say in Turkish and Persian
like how to say Hello. Thank you.
Like, Hello, everyone. Hello, my friends.
I will teach you
in Turkish, You can say, it's very easy.
Merhaba
arkadaşlar
You are so cute in Japanese accent
In Persian you can say
you know a lot of friends
They are very interested in Chinese and Japanese.
They always ask me, they don't really know
what's the difference between these two languages.
They are very interested in the culture and the languages
they really want to learn.
To be honest, we are native speaker. I'm Chinese.
She's Japanese
but we are not experts in these two languages.
So I think we can just give you some basic ideas,
basic concept of these two languages.
If you are learning Chinese or Japanese or
you are interested in these two languages
you can write your opinion, ideas or questions
on the comments
before our discussion,
I want to ask you, Miki
what is your favorite word in Chinese?
My favorite Chinese word is
Kawaii (cute)
I know that it's a very important word for
Japanese people because
because we always say, like Kawaii, kawaii.
Everything is cute
I remember I was in Japan.
I mean, for traveling and, everything is cute.
People want to say, oh, you are so nice.
You are so beautiful.
They will not say, oh, you are beautiful.
They will say,you are so cute, everything is cute .
So first question,
do Chinese and Japanese use the same alphabet ?
Yes and no.
Because in Chinese writing system,
we have the "hanzi" writing system.
I think in Japanese, we call it "Kanji".
But Chinese characters do not constitute
an Alphabet or compact syllabary.
It's very different from, for example, Arabic.
I mean, it's like you can pronounce it
when you write: It's completely different system.
For example, for someone who has, for example, normal level,
if you want to read Chinese or something,
you have to at least memorize, like three thousand or four thousand "hanzi".
Yes.
This is kind of a challenge.
How's in Japanese?
Actually, in Japanese, we use three characters
like Chinese characters "Kanji " and "hiragana" and "katakana"
Chinese characters
We call them "kanji" We bought from Chinese.
And about "hiragana"
It's mainly for native and naturalized Japanese words
and grammatical elements
and about "katakana".
We used for foreign words and names, and
we mix all three characters when we speak, when we use Japanese.
Yes.
So you can see, I mean, the writing.
I will put it here.
The writing system is quite different.
It looks similar, but it's quite different.
The second question: Are Chinese and Japanese similar?
In terms of grammar, it's very different because, for example,
the structure of the sentence is different.
It makes me think of like Arabic and Persian,
Arabic and Persian, first they use the same Alphabet
and they have a lot of similar vocabulary.
But the thing is that
grammar structure is completely different.
I think it's a bit like Chinese and Japanese.
in Arabic, for example, when you say I like Miki
it's I like Mickey, this is in Arabic. Okay.
And it's like
it's in Chinese.
I like Miki,
but in Persian, you will say
Miki I like
In Japanese
It's like this
Yes.
The structure is like this.
But I think in terms of vocabulary,
I think it's quite similar
Yes
They have a lot of common words
Because we use some similar words and Kanji
When I was traveling in Japan.
For me at that time, I was speaking a bit Japanese.
But for me, I have no problem to go everywhere
because I think you can guess from the "kanji", right?
Yes I can guess from the "kanji"
If I want to go to the Metro
or go to different places
I can read.
So for me, it's not difficult
for me to learn Japanese
But sorry I forgot japanese
There are a lot of similar vocabulary in
Japanese and in Chinese,
I'm going to do something
I will say a word in Chinese.
And you tell me how to say in Japanese und tell me if you understand and how to say in Japanese
I will pronounce exactly like in Chinese
The first one
Okay.
victory
agree
zoo
this one is very easy
library
weather
Time
market
you know Xijo, this word is very cute for me
because in my dialect, i am from the south of China
Xijo in my dialect means" wash your feet."
wash your feet, wash your feet
Yes.
Next question.
Chinese and Japanese.
Which one is more difficult.
of course Chinese
of course Japanese
I mean it depends
of course it depends what is your mother tongue
For example, for example, for me, Japanese is
not difficult, but Arabic is very difficult.
You are learning Chinese.
Yes.
So tell me, what is the most difficult part?
for me.
Of course, it's pronunciation because I think
in Chinese, you have four tones, right?
Yes
It's very difficult.
So it's like, for example, if you want to say
it's like "M" and "A"
But if you put the tone
differently, the meaning is completely different.
for me it's just like "ma ma ma ma " it's the same
This is difficult.
That's why sometimes a lot of foreigners when
they try to learn Chinese, and when they try
to speak something because they are not sure about
the tone, they will make a lot of jokes.
It's super funny.
It's not to laugh at you
I have one funny story
I wanted to say "I like Panda"
it's "xiong mao"?
Do you know what did you say?
you say
it's "breast hair"
you like "breast hair "
So I said "I like breast hair "
"xiong mao" you really have to pay attention
of course I have said that it really depends on your mother tongue.
But I think for a lot of people
Japanese, I think it's easier to pronounce.
Pronunciation is easier than Chinese.
I think Chinese is more difficult in terms of reading
as well, because you have to memorize more characters.
But I think in terms of grammar, Japanese is more difficult
yes sure
the conjugation
yes because in Chinese, we don't have conjugation
You know, the most difficult conjugation is in which language?
I think German
German is difficult
But it's still ok
It's Arabic, it's crazy
you have the feminine, the masculine, the dual and the plural
You have two person, two person. They are women.
Two person they are men
You have a three person.
So it's like a very complicated
at the beginning I was like desparate
For me, it was very difficult.
There is another difficult thing
in Japanese I have encountered.
I remember it's in "Keigo".
Yes.
I understand nothing about "Keigo".
it's complicated
"Keigo" is the polite structure of the sentence
It's not like you make a sentence.
It really depends on the people you are talking to.
So you have to use different formula.
to show your respect
It is not just simply like, for example,
in french, you say "tu" et "vous", it"s not that simple difference
Even sometimes you have to change the nouns
and adjectives
Yes. When you talk to a
different person, this is completely different.
I think even for Japanese is quite difficult to speak correctly Japanese
Yeah, I know what you mean.
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And Miki, how to say in Chinese, thank you see you
it's easy I know that
Thank you
Good bye
in Japanese?
it's your turn
thank you
good bye