choose the one you are interested , the country,culture and so on

but if you would like to learn Chinese, maybe I can give you one hand :)

both are very good ! I can also help you with Chinese

i think chinese is useful
china is the next 1st power in the world
and there are about 2 billion people speak this language all over the world

Honestly ,Chinese is more difficult than Japanese,but more useful.

Chinese is beautiful,chinese people are wonderful,Chinese culture is wonderful...what's more...people in china can speak english better than those in japan

you should learn Japanese,because when you visit China people here are able to speak English which you can understand easily. And Chinese people are very friendly.
when you go to Japan you would be confused by there English pronounciation, so you have to learn some Japanese

I suggest you lean Chinese !

haha ~ if you would visit japan i recommend you to learn some japanese~
in china there is thousand of people can speak english fruently and clearly~
but i dont think there is a lot of japanese can do that~
because i cant understand japanese's acient~

cody!you got it !

Either way you're surely gonna tormented by the dreadful characters, which we call FangKuaiZi in Mandarin or Kanji in Japanese. However, Japanese language system consists of some kind of syllable system, which is much easier since you can learn the rudiments through... err... "Lego-style", as long as you could figure out all the puzzle pieces. Lego-puzzle-Mandarin? No way. :P

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why you all think japanese can't understand English?
as a chinese i think chinese is better. It's true that if you can read chinese then you can read a part of japaneseas well . i don't know if the japanese feel the same way.But i can tell you japanese has 30% chinese words.

You can't say which language is useful. It depands on how much do you like it. To be honest, people who speak Chinese is more than those who speak Janpanese. But if you like Janpanese cartoon, you'd better learn Janpanese. I suggest that you learn more about the culture about both countries and decide which to learn or you can learn them together even though that's too hard.

hi Cäta，I think I would suggest that you first learn Chinese. China has several thousand years of history and profound cultural accumulation has been the impact on the neighboring Southeast Asian countries. You watch this year's Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony? » In a short period of a few hours, has been highly summarized the 5,000-year history of the Chinese trip. In front of you showed the country is a beautiful country, I think she should be able to cause your interest. We hope you'll be able to China's history and culture have more understanding. Please forgive, because my English is not good, so you can not fully demonstrate the essence of Chinese culture. I e-mail address is: siwenluck@gmail.com. You can contact me through the mail and, the way to help me learn English. Thanks!