are chinese and japanese languages the same?

Firstly, the Japanese Language and the Chinese Language is not of the same linguistic family, thus there will be a large number of differences.

Pronunciation:

Japanese consists of syllables called mora and consists of a consonant cluster plus a vowel. Several mora make a "word" in Japanese. In contrast, Chinese is broken down by character, which each character is given at least one reading of exactly one syllable long. Chinese also distinguishes between tone in all its dialects; Japanese does not and uses a tone-based stress to clarify what is being said.

Writing System:

It is in this manner the Japanese developed kanji, the Chinese characters used in Japanese.

Japanese uses three different scripts, not counting Roman Letters and Arabic Numerals, in everyday writing: kanji, hiragana and katakana. Kanji, as noted, is the Chinese characters seen in Japanese text. Hiragana and Katakana are symbols derived from grass script calligraphy of Chinese characters and evolved to be their syllabary. Chinese only uses Chinese characters.

Vocabulary:

Japanese also imported a large amount of vocabulary when importing Kanji from the Chinese. This gave two results: many distinctively Chinese concepts retained their Chinese reading, while many of the Japanese concepts gained a kanji which meant what the kanji represented in Chinese. Aside from these similarities, there is almost no point in common between the vocabulary of the two languages.

Grammar:

Japanese and Chinese employ two completely different grammar schemes - first, even the order of the sentence would not be the same in the two languages: Chinese is mainly Subject - Verb - Object, like English (Although it is technically possible to construct a sentence meaning exactly the same thing using a different order) and Japanese is always Subject - Object - Verb, like German most of the time. Japanese also possess a past tense (but no future tense) while Chinese does not distinguish the tense at all.

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Actually, that's a common misconception about Chinese characters. A Chinese character is usually composed of two components: the semantic component (that which hints at the meaning) and the phonetic component (that which hints at the pronunciation). So in a sense, you can 'read' the characters. However, most Chinese and Japanese, as they get older and more proficient with Chinese characters (kanji for Japanese), don't 'read' the characters. The characters are instead 'understood'. Imagine looking at a picture - that's how Chinese characters are 'read'. This is complicated more so in Japanese. The character can have three different categories (which may have multiple entries) of readings. 2 of these rely strongly on memorization. As for mental stimulation, well, East Asians in general have higher visuo spatial intelligence than any other groups. Also, the writing of Chinese characters is sometimes used to aid meditation.

Nope.

Chinese has NO similar pronunciation whatsoever with Japanese (except those random words, that Japan borrows from China, like English takes from French.) Chinese itself is made from different dialects. The two largest, Mandarin and Cantonese, don't even sound the same either.

Japanese writing is also completely different. HOWEVER, in Japan, they use Chinese characters for writing only. It's pronounced in Japanese, but some words (names, items, verbs, etc.) are often written using Chinese characters.

So to answer your question, Japanese people can read some Chinese, and vice versa. They cannot communicate verbally whatsoever.

No. they are completely different when it comes to speaking. When it comes to writing, alot of Japanese characters are derived from Chinese ones, but even then, they are pronounced completely different. If a Chinese speaking person was to talk to a Japanese speaking person they would not understand each other at all.

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The two languages are completely different

China speaks Mandarin and Cantonese and Japan speaks Japanese, they are entirely different languages.

japanese and chinese completly diffrent in pronounciation, but have some related charcters.

it's like english and spanish.

some words are similar but pronounciation is completly diffrent.

completely different language , they dont know each other , but characters sometimes the same ,sometimes different pronunciation

in japanese sometimes you can hear very not standard english , sometimes you can hear not standard chinese ,

hope it helped

No. "Chinese" would be either Cantonese or Mandarin. Spellcheck me.