Another spoiler for the same reason as last time.
fair enough!
if you don't mind me asking, are you of native speaker background? there's the whole thing on native speakers making it unfair for non native speakers and hence the competitiveness etc but im not gonna get into that since i decided to commit to the subject as a non native speaker myself (did go to a chinese instructed school most of year 1 overseas tho, thats the only reason i think i can cope/ended up continuing the language tbh)
I am of background, however, my family doesn't really speak Mandarin (we speak another dialect), so that made Chinese classes rather difficult. I wanted to study Chinese as an elective at uni as well, but some minor issues meant I went back to Japanese. I don't harbour any animosity towards Chinese at all and hope to improve my Mandarin in the future.
did you find jpn a lot easier to learn?
Kind of? On one hand, the writing systems are all either Chinese-based (
kanji) or alphabet-based (
hiragana and
katakana), which makes it slightly easier. On the other hand, having to learn another language entirely was tough. In the end though, it was well worth it - I've had a lot of opportunities and met loads of friends this way. The same could also be said of Chinese, although my luck has yet to change there.