[KyleGoetz]

你好!

It will be much easier for you. The high-level Japanese words often are related to Chinese and have a similar pronunciation. For example, 使用 is "use," and the pronunciation is "shiyou," which sounds a lot like the Chinese, which is also "shiyou," right?

Also, if you can write 漢字, then you'll learn a lot quicker because that is a major block for students.

Grammar and pronunciation are usually much different from Chinese, but there are a lot more advantages if you speak Chinese than if you just speak English! I went to a university in Japan, and the Chinese students there had much better Japanese than the Anglophones (US, UK, Australia, etc.). The Koreans were better than the Anglophones, but not as good as the Chinese.