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Planning to visit Japan this year, starting from scratch

Using Duolingo, but also want to supplement a bit

I by no means believe I will have any passable level of Japanese by the time I visit, but just having fun

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I visited japan, I could say some simple sentences like

where is the bathroom, good morning, this isn't my train and so on - as well as obviously reading kana that was english based - like road signs about curbs, or gasoline reading "regular"

funny enough my chinese was probably more helpful owning to my ability to read a lot of the kanji (although not necessarily being able to pronounce it the japanese way)

I discovered in major centers everyone spoke english to some extent, and that in outlying towns/villages my skills weren't really enough to discuss particulars like ordering foods outside of the most basic items

I'll probably still study some japanese, although my primary target language remains chinese
 
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I visited japan, I could say some simple sentences like

where is the bathroom, good morning, this isn't my train and so on - as well as obviously reading kana that was english based - like road signs about curbs, or gasoline reading "regular"

funny enough my chinese was probably more helpful owning to my ability to read a lot of the kanji (although not necessarily being able to pronounce it the japanese way)

I discovered in major centers everyone spoke english to some extent, and that in outlying towns/villages my skills weren't really enough to discuss particulars like ordering foods outside of the most basic items

I'll probably still study some japanese, although my primary target language remains chinese
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Nice! I hope you enjoyed your trip to Japan, I'll be going there in a couple of months :D.

Just out of curiosity, since you’re learning Chinese, did you ever find yourself using a Chinese word instead of a Japanese one during conversations? That happens to me a lot when I speak Portuguese, I often accidentally use a Spanish word since I’m learning both languages.
 
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Nice! I hope you enjoyed your trip to Japan, I'll be going there in a couple of months :D.

Just out of curiosity, since you’re learning Chinese, did you ever find yourself using a Chinese word instead of a Japanese one during conversations? That happens to me a lot when I speak Portuguese, I often accidentally use a Spanish word since I’m learning both languages.
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my japanese skill isn't really high enough to have conversations in the traditional sense, but I can absolutely say I wanted to speak chinese for every single word lol

however, despite something near 50% of all japanese being derived from chinese, the words have changed so much so as to be mostly not intelligible

something like densha (japanese, train) and dian-che (chinese, city train) are close enough, or daisen and dashan (big mountain)

other place names like ku-ju-san and jiu-zhu-shan have already diverged enough so as to be only obviously related when written out

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since you're going there soonish - I would recommend doing something off the beaten path for at least a day if you want to experience japanese culture and meet people who don't feel you're a nuisance. In the rural parts of Kumamoto everyone was so nice, nearer to Kyoto and Tokyo you can feel the effects of overtourism and regular people kinda seem to despise you...I felt the most unwelcome in Tokyo
 
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