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People who can understand multiple languages, or have moved to another country, or otherwise traveled abroad; Do you feel like you experience existence from a PoV that nobody else can understand? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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And people who aren't part of any of these, do you think you are "missing" something?

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[–] 3 points 11 months ago

Aye, that's it.

You can hear it in some words like 日本, as 'nippon' and 'Japan' both feel closer to the Middle Chinese pronunciation than they are to modern Mandarin's 'rìběn'.

Also, I hear Chinese students unintentionally (or half-intentionally) slip in Mandarin pronunciations all the time when they forget the Japanese pronunciation that is very close.

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