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Good point about non-romance languages. However, you should just look at the extra work involved as part of the fun.
That said, I am really enjoying studying French again, for the first time in two decades - the fact that around 60% of English words came from French really speeds things up vocabulary-memorization-wise. Conjugation and gender are another story though.
One more thing: do not shy away from Kanji, it is not as daunting as it looks. At the very least learn to read Hiragana & Katakana (tip: learn them simultaneously) as ro-maji is useless.
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