Http://preparetoserve.com/china learning chinese vs learning japanese. some differences in the languages.. However, if you are simply determined to learn both languages and have no particular preference, i would recommend starting with chinese because it is the language that uses chinese characters in the most logical way, and already knowing the characters will give you a huge advantage in learning japanese.. So for english speakers, chinese is easier than japanese from this aspect. chinese grammar is generally considered a lot easier to learn than japanese. chinese is an isolating language, even more so than english, with no verb conjugations, noun cases or grammatical gender..
One should remember that chinese characters perfectly fit for chinese language, but not so for japanese, a language with complitely different grammatical structure. hence, a correct use of chinese characters in japanese is much more difficult to master, plus the grammar.. Chinese cuz of all their characters.. japanese because they have hiragana, katakana, and also kanji.. korean just have their hangul alphabet which isn't hard to learn. korean reading is fairly easy, same with pronunciation and speaking.. but i mean my first language is arabic so i don't have the.
