I’ve been learning Chinese for quite some time now, and will probably keep at it these coming years as it’ll be a necessity in my life, but I’d lie if I’m not constantly attracted by Japanese. I’m just afraid of picking up another life-long project, and having to balance learning Japanese with keeping up my Chinese. Has anyone learnt Japanese after Chinese? What has been your experience? Did knowing hanzi help with learning kanji?
Chances are if you know Chinese you still need to learn some kanji. China uses simplified characters but Japan still uses the older characters.
Luckily I’m way more comfortable with traditional characters :) Still, it’s true that Japan uses some even older forms than the ones seen in the traditional character set of Taiwan or Hong Kong sometimes.