>>66778>Katakana is a huge advantage.Bullshit. Using Katakana (and the Japanese sounds) for foreign words really fucks up their ability to pronounce actual English words. Japanese has been "corrupted" to a point where they high-jacked a lot of English words and use them in conversation to mean other things. You get what is known as "Janglish". Japanese is only useful in Japan but...
I'd say Chinese is more useful, if you're going to fucking China. I assume you mean Mandrain because the other Chinese dialects are not very useful (except Cantonese if you want to deal in Hong Kong, although they speak Mandarin too now and a high population of Hong Kong are just mainlanders so that's debatable.).
There are a few reaons to learn a language: For fun, or because you need to. The former is more likely to be the reason most people learn anything, they just like it, and more power to you. It's always good to learn new things. The latter, having to learn a language because you have to, depends on whether you'll ever need to come into contact with that country and the people who speak it. I don't think many westerners will ever live in either China or Japan for an extended period, or need to deal with them in business. If a company were to deal with a foriegn market, they'd likely get native speakers so they would be trusting to their new clients.
