I think learning another language that uses an alphabet would be too hard for me, I need chinese characters, they are so logical and REALLY help in context. There are many words that sound the same, but are written differently in characters, so the meaning is always clear.
For example:
Place
Where's that place?
I came in 1st place.
While in a language with characters there are no words written the same with totally different meanings really.
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And words Japanese and Cantonese sound somewhat similar, so that's good too.
I can already understand some written cantonese just cuz the characters are the same in Japanese, but that's about it now.