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		knolax on Aug 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy I'm pretty sure that's the route most Korean and Japanese speakers go. The differences between the two are exaggerated anyways.

dwohnitmok on Aug 14, 2019 [–]

I don't think that's true of modern Korean or Japanese speakers. You're going to have to go back about a century or more to find any appreciable amount of literacy in Classical Chinese in Korea or Japan.

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