Also, I could say from my own experience, that studying Vietnamese is much-much-much simpler (in the beginning at least) than Chinese. Chinese, theoretically,

Also, I could say from my own experience, that studying Vietnamese is much-much-much simpler (in the beginning at least) than Chinese. Chinese, theoretically, is more simple language than Vietnamese in terms of grammar structures and such. But Vietnamese uses Latin alphabet (augmented with diacritics) and for western person it is huge help when you start to learn language. Maybe, on B2+ level it is not relevant anymore, but when you try to study language from zero it is blessing (again, for western person).