Chinese, Japanese or German?

Chinese:

Pros

1. Fun

2. Very different

3. Will be the next superpower

4. Very challenging

5. Interesting culture

6. Hottest girls.

7. Easy, save for the character writing

8. When you learn to read, you will be able to read extremely quickly. It's much more efficient than alphabetic languages to read.

Cons

1. Very time consuming to learn the characters. This fact is so bad, its really the only downside to this language. The language besides character writing is easy.

German

Pros

1. Related closely to English

2. Most spoken language in Europe

3. Many other languages VERY closely related to German such as Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, etc.

4. Fun to speak in an exaggerated accent

Cons

1. Not a very worldly language. You won't hear much German outside europe

2. extremely long words

3. Pronunciation of large words is difficult

4. Not a very attractive language in my opinion

Japanese

Pros

1. Beautiful language

2. Hot girls

3. very fun to speak, and the writing is a little easier than chinese

4. japan is one of the most highly developed countries on the planet

5. very good for economic reasons if you deal with japan

6. very interesting culture and food scene

7. challenging

8. different, although many westerners look highly on japanese, and want to learn it, hardly any actually do know it.

9. has a lot of english cognates

Cons

1. Hardest asian language, grammar wise

2. several alphabets. hiragana, katakana, katakana, romajii, and then you have different written forms of these such as hentaigana which require lots of time to learn.

3. Not related to other asian languages at all. You can only use japanese sources to learn japanese, unlike saying learning latin to learn spanish better.

Really it depends on what you want to do, even if not to be fluent.

GERMAN: Easiest language for native English speakers, since all they use is Roman letters (e.g. a, c, r, h) with a few exceptions, such as umlauts and epsilons(ß, ä, ü, ö). Chances are you already know a bit of German, as it's classed in the same language group as English. You also gain 'access' to more countries in Europe (when I say access, I mean able to speak to people and enjoy visiting/living in more countries in Europe'. However, as it's a European language, many other people will have learnt it, so it won't stand out as much on CV's.

CHINESE: The most spoken language in the world, with 800 million people speaking it as their mother tongue, and a further 200 studying. China is also becoming one of the main economic countries in the world, and speaking either Mandarin or Cantonese will really benefit you when it comes to business. As it's not European and not commonly taught in schools (at least, where I'm from) it will stand out more on a CV than a European language. However, Chinese is very hard to master, and when it comes to travelling, is only really useful in one place.

JAPANESE: The Japanese economy is very strong, and even more impressive when you consider it's lack of resources. If you enter business later in life, chances are you work or have competition from Japanese companies. Sony, Nintendo, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Panasonic, etc, are all Japanese. Again, like Chinese, isn't taught much in schools, so will stand out on a CV. While following a basic structure, Japanese is hard to get to grips with.

Hope I was able to point out a few pros and cons.

Japanese is awesome and learning it is so much fun. For a bonus if you're an anime watcher, you could enjoy watching and learning the language by reading the subs.

I'd go with German. A few people I know said it was easy to learn and if you get mad you can start screaming in German and everyone will back the f*** off.

German is easier for English speakers. But I recommend Japanese, because it looks cool. Japanese is constructed very logically, without irregular words or sentence structure.

German. It's so similar to English it's fun.

Spanish is better :D