u/Sr_Bombastic_Rat

I currently am fluent in English, Spanish, and French and am currently learning Portuguese and can speak it at a conversational level.

I want to learn Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Navajo, Italian, and many more languages. However, I don't know if i could or should do that, and if I were to, what order should I do it in? I have family and a professor who speak chinese, and I have a very close friend who speaks Japanese and a lot of mangas (and I like watching JoJos & other Japanese shows). And my dad spoke some Russian to me growing up, usually when he was jokingly mad so I'm good at insulting in Russian. I have extremely basic skills in these three, but know nothing of the rest. What should I do? How should I go about this? Is it possible? Should I do it? How would I start?

Im choosing between Chinese and Japanese, and maybe Korean, but I don't know which to learn. I've only ever learned languages for social reasons, so learning one for fun is new. What are some reasons to learn either?

Edit: I speak fluent English, French, and Spanish, and conversational Portuguese. I don't know if this helps much.

I'm not French, but I grew up in the United States speaking French with most of my family. Because of that French and French/French African cultures are big parts of who I am. I listen to Pop Urbaine and French Afrobeats, watch French movies, and love it. However anytime I mention that I speak French or am somewhat culturally French, most people will start with "I hate France/French people/anything to do with anything French." I was bullied a lot for it in my early adolescence, and it's always confused me. Why do people hate France so much?

I usually think it's just because French people are very direct and formal, and a lot of Americans are quite the opposite, so when Americans go, they take the directness and formality as "rudeness."

Even then, I've met a lot of people who haven't gone and still hate France. Why?

Do you think it's similar to how people in the Northeast are "mean but actually nice?"