German or Russian

Hello, I come from China, my native language is Mandarin, my major is Japanese, and I'm learning French on my own, now I plan to choose another language to learn by myself, between German and Russian, maybe I wouldn't have any opportunities to speak German or Russian with the suppliers of our companies, and in the conversation with our clients, but I'm just quite interested in difficult languages such as Russian, German, Arabic, and so on, and I've already given up Arabic, so there're still 2 options, German or Russian? Thanks!

German.

Difficult languages?? German is not more difficult than French for a Chinese... Even English is pretty hard for the Chinese people

Chink's shouldn't speak Western languages. I would go as far to see we pronounce Mandarin and Japanese better than you pronounce English or Russian. It's almost as if the Asian voice box is less developed than Westerners.

I think you should choose Russian,not German
Russia is your neighbor,but Germany is too far.

I think u should learn Swedish.
As I can know, Chinese will speak good Swedish when they learn it.
Their intonation is quite similar.

German is language of science and culture.

Russian has been becoming increasingly unpopular among those countries of former Soviet Union.

German is quite popular not only in western Europe, but also in eastern Europe, while Russian has never been an important language in western Europe.

German is increasingly popular among English culture icones. English culture returns to his roots-North Germany.

Is Russian really more difficult to learn than German for the Chinese?

German is the more important business language at the moment but that situation should start to change in 15-20 years.

Depends if you're taking a long-term view.

German of course.

fraz: . . . . . . but that situation should start to change in 15-20 years. Depends if you're taking a long-term view.


Would you please explain about "a long-term view"?

El alemán, sin duda alguna.