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If you're learning a second language, does the written text get mistaken for another?
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When it comes to Kanji from Japanese, it gets annoying upon people misidentifying it as "Mandarin". Don't get me started on writing Japanese names all in Kanji since that too gets mistaken for "Mandarin" (i.e 近藤浩治) when it's not. I mean let's say you're learning Dutch and can that get misread as "German" since the alphabet is near identical.
The thing is, if you're learning another language (i.e. a Slavic one like Ukrainian, gets mistaken as "Russian" due to Cyrillic), you get the picture. It happens A LOT with 漢字, even if I handwrite in nihongo (not zhongwen) Like, are you able to distinguish which character set is Japanese & Mandarin since they both use 漢字:
Unless you're reading ancient Japanese texts, or looking at an isolated word on a sign or something, it's not really that much of an issue for Chinese and Japanese, even as someone who's never really gotten that far in Japanese. In a longer text, the total absence of hiragana and katakana will generally make it readily apparent it isn't a Japanese text, in most cases, even it there aren't any characters used which you can point to and say "Ah, this is a simplified character from China!"
With Romance languages, either the language is close enough to something I know that I can read it without issue, or it's not and I can't understand it without first studying that language's orthographical conventions and any unique grammar. Still, it never really amounts to more than either "I can't understand this" or "Huh, looks like Portuguese, but I guess it's Galego if they use ñ and spell geografia as xeografía. Well, guess I'll see what it says."