Can't decide between French or German

For lit., French. With philosophy/science, German.

modern philosophers read german authors in English because the translations are better than the originals

If you live in the UK, German. In the US, it's hard to get German books at a reasonable price, so French becomes more useful. I read both but really read French 3x as often despite knowing German better.

>in lit terms
french
>in not being a dead-end language that won't be spoken in fifty years and has no application outside of france and africa
german

My school tricked me into continuing French because "it's more useful", even though I preferred German and had an ear for it.
I hated French so much that I just didn't retain it. So much for being "useful".
Pick whichever one you feel you like more or have an ear for. Do you have an easier time picking up on German cognates or French loan words etc. For a language to be useful, you need to be able to actually learn it.

"The Gallo-Germanic society and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."

Don't even fucking bother with Rosetta Stone. Use Duolingo - it's better than free. Or, better yet get yourself a actual course - an Assimil or Pimsleur course, plus the "Modern German/French Grammar" textbook and workbook. Then, consume tons of media in German/French, and add words and phrases you don't know to Anki, a spaced repetition flashcard app/computer software.

Why? is the the vocabulary or the amount of resources, syntax...?

To read your favorite authors in their original tongue is worth infinitely more than the ability to read more 'good' books overall.

French has better literature but Germany has better philosophers. As Nietzsche said, with great shame, the only German worth reading in his native tongue is Goethe whereas the French have so many.

French literature sucks. Tell me, what's the french counterpart of the Divine Comedy, of Faust, or of Paradise Lost? There's none, because all the french can create are shitty novels about some roastie cucking her husband.

Learn German.

Nietzsche was a Francophile so his opinion is obviously biased.

I mean if epic poems is all you care about french has henriade and song of roland I guess

Racine.

German. It's better for reading philosophy, and French just sounds gay.

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French for literature.
German for autistic philosophy.

Now, consider that concepts can be translated very easily, but aesthetics and good prose much less so. You should pick French if you actually want to enjoy reading.

It's hilarious that you had to pick two non-German examples for this, since there is barely any German literature worth reading.

spanish

I'm 20 years old right now and currently studying mandarin, my goal is to be able to start learning another language at age of 23-24 and then learn French, German, Italian and Spanish before I'm 40

Is this achievable?

No.

read wiki grammar page for both and see which you like more

No, language learning is only effective until around 17

We are in a polyglot boom, plenty of people are proof that you can do that in less than ten years. It shouldn't take more time.

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I feel like Hindi would be tougher than Korean, Korean really isnt as difficult as other East Asian languages