Chinese or Japanese culture?

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Which of the two cultures do you find more interesting?

And which of the two languages would you think is easier to learn?

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I enjoy the Japanese culture, but don't know much about the Chinese culture. Though both languages are chanenging for an english speaking person to learn, hans down Japanese would be the easier of the two because generally the Japanese language in terms of pronounciation is close to the roman languages, but the Chinese use different tones in their language, as in you could say the same word in two different tones of voice, and the wor would mean two completely different things. Hope I helped! ^-^
 
Chinese is of course the oldest. Japanese is the youngest.
The Japanese in its earlier days was wanting what China and Korea had in the way of arts, science, and construction. They offered land and gold to any who would come and teach. Several came and taught their specialties. They were instead killed, rather than paid, after the Japanese learned all they had to offer. What they learned they changed or improved on it an made it Japanese giving no credit to the others. I have lived in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Cambodia.

The old ways of China are without a doubt the best. But because of the teachings of Confucius, (Kung Fu Tze), it became a static society and began the long slide into what is now modern China. The Japan is a country of great beauty and wonderful people.
I enjoy the foods from all the Asian countries, but I like Korean the best. I think Korean is the easiest language to learn, that is because of the way they write. They have a modern method called Hangul it is a phonetic alphabet and can be learned in two weeks studding about 20 minutes a day. The Japanese and Korean still use a writing method using Chinese characters. To be considered barley fluent, you will need to learn about 40,000 characters for all three countries.
I can not pick one over the other, I loved them all. I would suggest you consider what you will do with the language you will learn. If it is for study or for possible employment. Then either Korean, Japanese or Chinese. Chinese has three main dialects while Japan and Korea, just one each. I have feebly attempted all three, I am not very good at any. The Thai was my strongest, I could speak, read and write in Thai. I got so good at one point I could tell a joke in Thai. I have not used it since I left Thailand in 1975. In my travels I found if you try and speak the language, learn and keep the local customs, most will try and help you. I never had any problems traveling through Asia. It was only when getting shot at in SE Asia that I had problems. You can go on-line to the consulates and get a ton of information. I have used several different study courses and the easiest was Rosette Stone. Its expensive , but its also in the public library. Which ever you choose, good luck and I know it will make you a better person for trying to understand others. Don't look at it as being a "Foreign language" Its just another way to say the same thing differently.

I bid you peace.
Shalom
 
A matter of opinion, really...

I am originally from Japan, but I find Chinese history very interesting.

Far as language goes, I grew up speaking Japanese, so I'm biased...it's easy to me. I have been told that English speakers have an easier time learning to speak Chinese as compared to Japanese. Something to do with sentence structure and the 'rhythm' of Chinese being more similar to English than Japanese.
 
I'd say Chinese has somewhat 'richer' culture due to the longer history and the more ethnic groups they have. Personally, if it's related to historical matters, I find that Chinese culture more interesting. But for modern days culture, I'm inclined towards Japanese.
For the language, I'm learning both .. and Japanese is definitely easier to learn (at least for me, Japanese characters are lesser than Chinese ... less memorising to do ^^)
 
Both have interesting cultures to me.
I think the Japanese Language would be better or easier to learn because of more Western influence than the Chinese Language.
 
Chinese culture seems more interesting - I think there is more war (hence the great wall of china) and they are bigger. Japanese would be almost certainly easier to learn for a native English speaker because the tones are LESS important and most native English speakers report Japanese to be easier.
 
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