This paper examines the consciousness of learners from Chinese backgrounds regarding how to read Kango words of Chinese origin, based on observing video recording data of 12 groups of 29 lower/upper intermediate level learners tasked with classifying Kango by its reading. Though the words used in the task were only read as "h" or "p" (e.g., 無敗(mu-hai), 連敗(ren-pai)), all groups, regardless of level, classified some cards as "b". Moreover, they could not easily provide answers; they constantly moved the cards between "h", "p", and "b", changing their answers in response to the other cards' movements.
