Experiences with learning Chinese (Mandarin) already knowing Korean G'Day! I should start off by saying that I am native/fluent in German and English, the rest probably does not matter but I also know quite some dutch and whatever is left from 2 years of Spanish in high school, which - needless to say - is not much. The Chinese language has always fascinated me and I also do find interest in it but I have always been scared away by the sheer amount of characters along with their pronunciation I would have to memorize to even be able to just get along. However, this was before I even started learning Korean. While learning Korean and getting to understand it more deeply I came to realize how many Korean words actually have the same or similar pronunciation of their old Chinese ancestors - Hanja. Although I do not know many (if any) Hanja characters (actually written), I do know a lot of them in their Korean pronunciation and meaning. That made me wonder whether this could prove to be helpful to me finally starting to learn Chinese as well...I should clarify that my Korean is at a fluent level already. I only face some trouble when it comes to very specific/uncommon words.