<p>I studied little bits of German, French, Spanish during middle and high school, reaching no level of comfort in those languages. The constant verb conjugations, feminine and masculine…blablabla required drove me insane. On the other hand, I studied Chinese for one yr in college, took a 3 wk summer course and then went abroad for a yr to China. Chinese was actually very easy for me to pick up - the spoken much more so than the written but I could get around really easily in China and was easily understood by Chinese. People go on about how complex the characters are, how difficult it is to “get” 4 tones but so much of the grammar is EASY - for example to make a verb past tense - add “le” to the end of a sentence. Now that was something I could do!!</p>
<p>In the end how easy or hard it is for you will depend on how much you enjoy it and how into it you are. If it interests you, do it.</p>