Probanly not. As you will well be aware there are many different Chinese languages (for a start), however Japanese is one of the few languages in the world to have evolved with minimal influence from the surrounding languages. The exception being its written system, which is based off of Chinese writing. Basically what i'm saying is, you might recognise the characters but your ability to speak (a) Chinese language(s) will not help you.

Thanks for that. Anyone else wanna share their two cents?

The Japanese language did NOT evolve without being influenced by other languages, they use the entire Chinese Kanji system for heaven's sake. So yes, a Chinese person could be capable of reading and understanding two simple, common words on a canvas. They would not pronounce them the same way, but the meaning shouldn't escape them.

34 is correct. The Kanji system uses Chinese characters and a lot of the characters mean the same thing while others tend to carry a similar meaning. For example, 'Mimi' 耳 means ear in Japanese 'Er' 耳 also means ear in Chinese The pronunciation is different but the meaning it carries and the character is the same.

I speak both Japanese and Chinese, and what the others are saying is correct. You can definitely understand the meaning, even if you don't pronounce it the same way.

For those downvoting, Kanji in Japanese is taken from Chinese, so it's not too farfetched/racist.

This is probably the most educational string of comments I've ever seen on an FML

so you just enjoy being an ass I take it?

I would think saying something would actually help OPs grade, I know I for one would appreciate it if someone pointed that out to me, if I were OPs teacher

While this is true for hirigana and kanji, you can actually have a foreign name written in katakana, as many western words are written in katakana instead of using romanized text. So you can have 'Christine' (for example) broken down into the syllables to give　クリスチネ(ku-ri-su-ti-ne) (thats the jist, anyway. My Japanese is rusty as hell)

To be fair, most names cannot be truly translated into any language. Languages don't develop as parallel to one another. For example, the name norman (etymology - norse for 'man of the north') is translated into gaelic (using gaelic here because i speak it) as Tormaid. Tormaid means 'tower man'. It's an accepted equivalent rather than a literal translation. Also, if anyone is wondering, Tormaid is pronounced as tor uh mitch.

I was going to say something here... but never mind. EDIT.

16 - Michael is "maikeru" (at least when I tried to figure it out as a kid)

wouldn't it be to(small)I instead of chi? I'm pretty sure you can make the ti sound

or potentially embarrassing for that matter..

it's not like OP made the art and called him "old idiot"