If you learn Chinese, would it make it easier to learn Japanese?

Hiragana is not Chinese characters, Kanji are. But they are only a small part of the writing system and often have totally different meanings (and forms) in the two languages. Knowing Chinese is not really much help in learning Japanese or vice versa.

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No vague answer: Japanese is a level harder than Mandarin for reasons of a more complex grammar, the large number of heteronyms, and subtle differences of address when speaking to others. Mandarin, English and Russian are a level 7 in difficulty while Japanese is an 8 (Navajo would be a 10).

Although Japanese uses many Chinese loan words (just as most English loan words are French) it is of a different language group than Chinese (again, just as English is different from French). Knowing Chinese will be of help in writing "kanji" but that does not mean Japanese is easy, not even for speakers of Mandarin, and Chinese ideas and philosophies have undergone a profound change after being introduced into Japanese culture.

To acquire true fluency in either language is a life's work, and if that seems hard to grasp notice the grammatical errors and mistakes in pronunciation littering the writing and speech in English of native speakers of Chinese or Japanese.

Well they are all really hard! I am Korean but know Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. to speak, definitely Japanese. the sounds are more familiar to native English speakers and MUCH easier to pronounce. Korean consonant and vowel sounds are more difficult to grasp and Chinese tones are difficult to distinguish for a lot of people. to read/write, probably Korean. It's based on an alphabet instead of a character system, though the character system does use radicals which repeat. Each indibidual word, though, is a lot simpler to grasp. But I would reccomend start with Chinese because it is the most spoken language in the world and I am soooo glad my parents made me learn it when I was young!!!!

No it will not make it easy but you will be able to read a few kanji but Chinese kanji or Hanzi in chinese is larger than the one in Japanese . Japanese kanji is simplified version of Chinese characters . Your better off learning korean like the others said it will help you with Japanese .

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Japanese is far easier to speak and read than any dialect of Chinese. Chinese and Japanese share written Kanji to a certain extent, but there are differences, especially in pronunciation.

Chinese will be much harder to learn than Japanese for a natural english speaker, bottom line.

So if you want to learn Chinese, learn Chinese. If you're good at it, you may as well learn Japanese too because it is far easier, written or spoken.

I'm a native speaker of Chinese and I learned Japanese.

I agree with Me123.

No they are very different. Learn korean it is the most similar language to Japanese

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