OP asked “Chinese or Japanese” and people are responding with…
- Asian languages are TOO HARD, take Language X, Y, or Z instead! (even though OP didn’t ask for opinions about any other languages: FYI they did not mention Spanish in the original post for a reason)
- There’s no point in learning foreign languages, English will forever be the one and only lingua franca and everyone else should just learn English! (y’know at one point in time, everyone was saying that French would be the lingua franca, and look at what’s happened now)
I’m pretty sure that OP made this thread for opinions on learning Japanese or Chinese, NOT for people to dissuade them from pursuing a language that they’re interested in. No where in the original post did OP ask for opinions on Spanish and no where did OP say “Tell me why learning Chinese/Japanese is pointless/a waste of time/etc!”
@NorthernMom61 Wait, you just said that your daughter can speak, read, and write Japanese “fluently”, yet you say she can only read at a late-elementary school level. In that sense, she wouldn’t be able to read Japanese fluently.