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Originally Posted by Amnell
I've heard a lot of people say that learning any variant of Chinese first helps grealty with the other two that you mentioned. The universal reason is: you learn how to read Hanzi straight away, so learning Kanji and Hanja are very easy. Also, because Korean and Japanese have a lot of Sino-inspired vocabulary, you get a lot of cognates that make it easier to "decode" the other two languages.
It's sort of like learning Latin before learning Spanish and French. Sort of...
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it's more like learning latin before you learn english. Even though english received most of her vocabulary from latin, she didn't spawn from latin. whats more, is the grammars are completely different. the same can be said about japanese and chinese (i guess korean too). Anyway, it might help you on the SAT, but it other than that...
i think each language has it's own difficult points. for example, as an english speaker, the grammar of chinese is more intuitive, but at the same time, the pronunciation is a nightmare- where as, the opposite seems to be true for japanese.