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Discussion Explores Why Japanese Listeners May Find Chinese Speech “Scary”

A social media discussion examines why Chinese can sound intimidating to some Japanese listeners, exploring differences in how the two languages are heard and perceived while avoiding the nationalist arguments such topics can provoke.

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NEW: A social media thread on why Japanese people find the Chinese language "scary" could have easily devolved into a food fight. Instead, it became an interesting discussion of how - and why - the two languages hit each country's ear differently.
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Discussion Explores Why Japanese Listeners May Find Chinese Speech “Scary”

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EN-ORIGINAL (1)

NEW: A social media thread on why Japanese people find the Chinese language "scary" could have easily devolved into a food fight. Instead, it became an interesting discussion of how - and why - the two languages hit each country's ear differently.