How many Chinese read English?

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What percentage of Japanese can read English?

Real conversational fluency in English is very rare in Japan, probably at lower than 10\% of the population.

How long does it take a Chinese person to learn Japanese?

They estimate it takes 88 weeks of learning, or 2200 hours, to reach fluency. That’s about a B2 level on the CEFR charts, or JLPT N2 level (conversational).

Why is English taught in Japan?

Although Japanese students learn English for six years (starting the first year of junior high school), many of them still can’t communicate in even basic English. This is because the English education in Japanese schools is mainly geared towards helping the students to pass the written university entrance exams.

What is the percentage of English speaking people who can read Japanese?

English and all western languages are so far from Japanese, it is extremely hard to learn written english. If you turn the question around what is the percentage of English speaking person that can read Japanese (read a book and understand it) I am sure is it less than 1\%.

Should you learn Chinese characters when learning Japanese or Korean?

You can opt not to learn Chinese characters, or even delay doing so, while learning Japanese, Korean, or even Chinese (yes, you can learn conversational Chinese by using Pinyin/Zhuyin), but if you want to be a truly fluent speaker of these three languages, Chinese characters are the key.

Why can’t Chinese and Japanese understand each other?

Japanese and Chinese aren’t even in the same language family. Japanese is in a category of it’s own, the closest language maybe being Korean, and they do not have cross understanding. Chinese has many dialects, and even they do not generally understand each other with the spoken language. With the written language however, China has no alphabet.

Is it possible to read kanji in Japanese if you know Chinese?

But the only kanji there, and thus the only part of the sign that most Chinese people could read (they’re likely to ignore the English, even if they can understand it, in favor of something more familiar), was 飲. 飲 means “drink.” So, don’t expect to really be able to read something written in Japanese if you know Chinese.